Republican Sen. Rand Paul, a physician, has courageously taken on Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Deep State over the confusing advice they have dictated during COVID. I will get ahead of this story right now and say that I don’t believe Rand Paul killed himself.
I have long said in my columns that the story that the coronavirus came from an open market in Wuhan was bogus from the start. Fauci pushed that story while downplaying the NIH’s involvement in funding the Wuhan lab.
Taking on the bullying and the unaccountable command-and-control bureaucracy of the United States takes guts. When an issue like this is so divided along party lines, those of us in the libertarian middle like to focus on facts and not the “shirts and skins” of Washington’s hyperpartisan politics. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham tested positive for COVID after getting vaccinated. He got a nice note from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer encouraging him to “stay positive.”
I have been vaccinated, and it was my choice. But I also understand folks who do not trust the government on this one. The “Trump vaccines,” which are all the vaccines we are taking, are not taken by everyone. Kamala Harris famously said she would not take a “Trump vaccine.” No wonder African American vaccination rates are only 36%.
History teaches us that it is not in your best interests when government has to shame you, pressure you, lie to you, bully and threaten punishment to gain your obedience. From the draft for the Vietnam war to Obamacare, what big government pushes you to do is seldom in your self-interest. Explore your own trusted sources and make your own personal decisions.