Rand Paul Rips Fauci for Flip-Flopping on Reopening Schools: He Believes ‘that We Should Submit’

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PAUL: "You know, we went through a two-hour hearing back in June. We've been through several of these. And not one person brought up, from the so-called experts, that the mortality rate among children was about one in a million. So I brought this up with Dr. Fauci, and immediately his defensive response was, 'What about Kawasaki Disease?' Well, Kawasaki Disease is a rare, rare complication of viral illness and yes, it does exist and it is not to discount it if your child gets it, but we shouldn’t be closing schools because of it. Because we get it every year and it's very, very rare. But he wasn’t really listening and I think the reason is that with Dr. Fauci, I think his belief that we should submit, that we’re all members of the hive, we're all members of the collective, that submission is more important than the facts. For example, in the spring he said masks don’t matter and don’t work. 'New England Journal of Medicine' also said in their editorial that they’re basically a talisman, that they don't work outside of the hospital setting, but then they changed their course over time but they're not really looking at data. We have mask mandates in dozens and dozens of states and countries and every — without fail, every time we’ve instituted a mandate, the actual incidence of the disease has risen. So there is no evidence that these mandates are working and we’re crippling the economy. So maybe we ought to reassess what we’re doing."