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Rand Paul says Dr. Facui told 'noble lie' about needing to wear a mask

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&nbsp;Tuesday, Sep 13th 2022| 797Republican Senator&nbsp;&nbsp;says Dr. Anthony Fauci knows people don't need to wear masks if they've been vaccinated, but he won't say so because he doesn't want everyone else to take off their face coverings.Fauci is telling a 'noble lie' to scare people into wearing masks even when they don't have to, Paul contended on Tucker Carlson's show Friday night.'He is lying because he doesn't think we are smart enough to make decisions,' Paul said. 'His fear is if the vaccinating - if we quit wearing masks - the vaccinated will say: What the hell, I'm not wearing a mask either.&nbsp;Paul and Fauci got into an argument about masks on the Senate floor earlier in the week, and the senator said he's even been confronted in the Capitol gym for not wearing a mask.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'I shouldn't have to prove I want to be free and left alone. I want to breathe the air. I was on the treadmill the other day and some Karen goes and reports people on the treadmill running without a mask,' Paul said.&nbsp;'For goodness sake, since the world we live in where everybody is reporting everyone and the gestapo is going to come in a rescue like this poor woman?&nbsp; Meanwhile, Fauci has hit back in recent days, saying Paul, an ophthalmologist, doesn't have the expertise to be making pronouncements on masks - and also isn't taking into account new variants that the vaccines might not be as effective against.Paul said Fauci's masks are all 'theater.'&nbsp;'He lies to say the mask makes a difference when in reality he knows better,' Paul said on the Fox News show Friday night.&nbsp;'He's wearing two masks for theater. He is immune and he knows he will not get it but he's not being honest with the American public,' the senator contended.'There are no news reports or&nbsp;scientific studies saying after vaccination that there is some sort of widespread contagion that people vaccinated are spreading the disease. It is just not true,' Paul said.'What Fauci won't tell you is he is telling you a noble lie.' It was an allegation made earlier this week at a senate hearing when the &nbsp;Senator accused him of using face masks as 'theater' for the 'nanny state'.&nbsp;&nbsp;'One thing about freedom is freedom doesn't have to be practical or have a study to say why you should have to have freedom here they need to have a study in scientific proof to show us why we shouldn't have freedom,' Paul said.&nbsp;'My goodness, they need to present the proof - the burden should be on the government to show that someone who is vaccinated is getting it again and being hospitalized and dying or spreading it instead of the conjecture of Anthony Fauci that says someday you might.'&nbsp;Paul has accused Fauci of trying to keep Americans under COVID restrictions 'forever'.&nbsp; Rand Paul tells Tucker Carlson he was running on a treadmill without a mask recently, prompting "some Karen" to complain about him — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) 'My response was someday the Spanish flu might come back so maybe we should always wear a mask because this isn't as bad as the Spanish flu and a lot less deadly, but someday the Spanish flu is going to come back. Why should we not wear a mask until we die?'Paul continued: 'When they mandate it, it is incumbent upon them that they should have to show the proof. There is no proof when you have been vaccinated or when you have gotten the disease naturally that you are spreading it. If there were, it would be all over the news.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On Thursday night Fauci told CNN that it was 'not the first time' he and Paul had argued, but insisted that it was still essential to carry on wearing a face mask after being vaccinated.&nbsp; 'There is always a kernel of truth in what he says; that there is protection, to some extent, after you get infected. There is no doubt about that,' Fauci told Chris Cuomo.&nbsp;Fauci, 80, pointed out that Paul was ignoring the threat from new variants, and was 'selective' in his quoting medical literature.Fauci highlighted an article in The Lancet published on Wednesday which said people aged 65 and over were at particular risk of getting re-infected.&nbsp;&nbsp;'I'm afraid if people hear what he says, and they believe it, and you have an elderly person who has been infected, and they decide, well Rand Paul says you won't get it again - they could get re-infected again and get into trouble,' he said.'That's the thing that bothers me about that kind of an interchange.'&nbsp;Fauci said he understood that people were 'tired of the constraints' of social distancing and mask wearing, but insisted that for now it was still the right thing to do.'We are not saying doing this indefinitely,' he said.'We are not saying this is the way it's going to have to be all the time.'We are saying that if you look at the data, look at the science, you could get in trouble if you pull back too prematurely. 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&nbsp;Tuesday, Sep 13th 2022| 797Republican Senator&nbsp;&nbsp;says Dr. Anthony Fauci knows people don't need to wear masks if they've been vaccinated, but he won't say so because he doesn't want everyone else to take off their face coverings.Fauci is telling a 'noble lie' to scare people into wearing masks even when they don't have to, Paul contended on Tucker Carlson's show Friday night.'He is lying because he doesn't think we are smart enough to make decisions,' Paul said. 'His fear is if the vaccinating - if we quit wearing masks - the vaccinated will say: What the hell, I'm not wearing...

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