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Over the course of a decades-long career, Dr. Anthony Fauci has worked for numerous presidential administrations, both Republican and Democrat. But this last president, Donald Trump, has stood out from the pack on account of being a flaming moron. For all the work Fauci has done to educate the public on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, namely by wearing masks and social distancing, Trump is out there spewing lies and telling the public that masks are bad and that the virus affects virtually no one, even though, in reality, it has killed more than 200,000 people in this country alone. But Trump isnt the only idiot whos made Faucis job protecting Americans more difficult; there are also the presidents supporters, who think the coronavirus is a hoax, and numerous Republican lawmakers who think they know more about infectious diseases than the guy whose literal title is director of theNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

One of those GOP lawmakers is Rand Paul, a senator from Kentucky who may be best known for telling 9/11 victims to suck it and being beaten up by his neighbor. On Wednesday, as Fauci testified before Congress, Paul smugly asked him, Do you have any second thoughts about your mitigation recommendations considering the evidence that despite all of the things weve done in the U.S., our death rate is essentially worse than Sweden, equivalent to the less developed world that is unable to do any of the things that youve been promoting? Do you have any second thoughts, are you willing to look at the data that countries that did very little actually have a lower death rate than the United States?

You know, Senator, Fauci responded, Id be happy at a different time to sit down and go over detail, youve said a lot of different things, youve compared us to Sweden and there are a lot of differencescompare Swedens death rate to other comparable Scandinavian countries. Its worse. So I dont think its appropriate to compare Sweden with usin the beginning weve done things based on the knowledge we had at the time and hopefully, and I am, and my colleagues are humble enough and modest enough to realize that as new data comes you make different recommendations. But I dont regret saying that the only way we could have stopped the explosion of infection was by essentiallyhaving the physical separation and the kinds of recommendations that weve made.

Unfortunately, Paul, who believes its authoritarian to enforce rules meant to prevent people from dying a horrible death, wasnt finished. Youve been a big fan of Cuomo and the shutdown in New York, youve 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, youve misconstrued that, Senator, and youve done that repetitively in the past, he said. [New York] got hit very badly, theyve made some mistakes. Right now, if you look at whats 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 theyve developed enough community immunity that theyre 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 isnt worth the paper it was printed on, and if there happens to be another toilet paper shortage, it wouldnt be a sacrifice to use it as a wipe.

I challenge that, Senator, Fauci said, telling an interrupting lawmaker, Please sir, I would like to be able to do this because this happens with Senator Rand all the time. You are not listening to what the director of the CDC said. Because in New York its about 22%, if you believe that 22% is herd immunity I believe youre alone in that.

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