Unfortunately, Paul, who believes it’s “
authoritarian” to enforce rules meant to prevent people from dying a horrible death, wasn’t finished. “You’ve been a big fan of Cuomo and the shutdown in New York, you’ve lauded New York for their policy,” he said to Fauci. “New York had the highest death rate in the world, how could we possibly be jumping up and down and saying, ‘Oh, Governor Cuomo did a great job,’ he had the worst death rate in the world?”
At this point, Fauci had had it with Paul, who apparently thinks having
been an ophthalmologist before joining the Senate qualifies him to expound on infectious diseases. All but yelling “Listen here, you little pissant,” Fauci got the most visibly angry he has over the course of the entire pandemic. “No, you’ve misconstrued that, Senator, and you’ve done that repetitively in the past,” he said. “[New York] got hit very badly, they’ve made some mistakes. Right now, if you look at what’s going on right now, the things that are going in New York to get their test positivity to 1% or less is because they are looking at the guidelines that we have put together from the task force of the four or five things of masks, social distancing, outdoors more than indoors, avoiding crowds, and washing hands.”
“Or they’ve developed enough community immunity that they’re no longer having the pandemic because they have enough immunity to actually stop that,” Paul shot back. Which Fauci was having absolutely none of, effectively telling the senator that his medical degree isn’t worth the paper it was printed on, and if there happens to be another toilet paper shortage, it wouldn’t be a sacrifice to use it as a wipe.
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