At this point, many of our leaders are either jumping at shadows or salivating over their newfound emergency power, but Kentucky Senator Rand Paul isn’t having any of it, especially when it comes to enacting restrictions with COVID-19 as an excuse.
The Hill reported that as the COVID-19 virus has spread through the U.S., leaders began to impose travel restrictions to try to slow it down. Paul, on the other hand, has some sense and started to dismiss the notion that omicron could be stopped. During a Sunday interview with WABC 770 AM’s John Catsimatidis, he made it clear that restrictions not only won’t work, but they’re also wrong to enforce on the American people.
“The travel bans aren’t going to work. It is now in more than half the US states. It’s in 40 different countries. There’s no travel ban that’s going to stop this,” Paul said.
“We don’t even yet know whether it’s a good or a bad thing,” Paul added, referring to the variant. “And if it turns out that it’s much less dangerous, and it crowds out the delta variant, it might be a blessing in disguise.”
It is the same optimism that doctors expressed regarding omicron. This variant of the virus is so mild that there haven’t been any recorded deaths despite it being far more contagious. The Center for HIV Cure Research is headed by Dr. Warner Green at the Gladstone Institute, San Francisco.
“It would be a great thing if, in fact, omicron crowded out delta. If omicron was a less pathogenic virus, that would be very good news for the human race,” said Greene.
Paul pointed out that many of these authoritarian leaders aren’t even waiting for the science, but taking their cues from another knee-jerking authoritarian, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“They’re based on basically [Anthony] Fauci’s impulse to authoritarianism is what I call it,” Paul said. “His gut reaction — his immediate knee-jerk reaction to everything is to take away your liberty. They only had to smell this South African variant. And they’re freaking out with all the new things they’re going to require you to do.”
Indeed, there seems to be very little to panic about according to the data on omicron, and it’s doing what viruses do which is become far more contagious and far less deadly. The information about omicron’s lack of danger has been available at a glance for some time now and yet there are still leaders who want to practice authoritarianism.
One has to wonder at which point their claims of “doing it for your safety” are just a mask for scratching an authoritarian itch, and reaping whatever benefits these leaders get out of it.
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