Dr. Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul Had It Out in a Congressional Hearing on the Pandemic

Sen. Rand Paul, who has vocally opposed lockdowns and similar public health measures to address the COVID-19 pandemic, questioned National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci during Senate hearings yesterday. Paul asked Fauci, according to accounts in The Hill and other media, if he had second thoughts over his support for such measures given statistics in other countries. “It’s important that we the people not simply acquiesce to authoritarian mandates on our behavior without first making the nanny state prove their hypothesis,” Paul said. He went on to say that New Yorkers, who were hit hard during earlier months of the pandemic, have now developed enough immunity to no longer be at risk.