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Rand Paul has become one of the loudest voices attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci along with other Republicans, who want Fauci removed. He accuses Dr. Fauci of having dictatorial powers that he never used and does not have.

He misrepresents data on the COVID pandemic, and is against not only any vaccine mandates, but criticizes the use of masks as ineffective. He has pushed the use of discredited medications like Ivermectin and told Americans to ignore CDC guidelines. He also claimed that Democrats were placing migrant children from the southern border all over the US in order to spread a new COVID variant. His attacks on Fauci have contributed to death threats against him and his family. He has as Fauci put it, kindled the crazies.

Rand Pauls thinking in these matters is obviously faulty at best and possibly deranged. But such thinking appears to be the new normal for Republicans with other voices like Marjorie Taylor Greene chiming in. But Rand Paul could be crazy like a fox in that he is pursuing a libertarian agenda, because he is against needed public health measures or government involvement in dealing with the crisis. Such actions have the potential to raise taxes and his major donors and fellow ideologues do not want that. He has no solutions to offer other than keeping the economy and schools open and learning to live with the virus.

While he decries the number of deaths under President Joe Biden, his non-solution would cause more deaths. He is oblivious to the numerous canceled flights due to sick staff. The threatened food supply chain. The hospitals that are operating at full capacity and in some cases even closing their ERs. He is oblivious to the number of burned out and sick health care workers. As well as the record number of infections as the Omicron variant spreads

In a callous way, he and many other Republicans want to keep the economy and schools open (no matter how nicely they say it as Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson recently did), ignoring the costs in human lives. Last year, he erroneously cited Sweden as an example where no restrictions are working. Sweden has a death toll from the virus 10 times that of its neighbors like Norway, which has imposed restrictions. And its economy has not done well.

Rep. Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN) really summed up Rand Pauls position in 2020 when he said that the pandemic presents a choice between losing jobs or losing lives, and losing lives is the lesser of two evils. But it sounds more and more like the reverse is true.

George Magakis, Jr., Norristown, Pa.

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