Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed new notions of mask and vaccine mandates as a “tragedy.”
While appearing on Jesse Watters Primetime, Paul blasted the “hysteria” being stirred by liberal commentators, saying it was financially benefiting medical and pharmaceutical companies.
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“These people are so conflicted,” Paul said. “It’s so dishonest to put people like that on the air to promote a product that they make more money from … promote this hysteria. This defies all logic. It defies science, and it defies common sense.”
The Kentucky Republican’s comments come as the Atlanta, Georgia-based Morris Brown College announced a renewed mask mandate.
Additionally, around 100 colleges are continuing with their vaccine mandates, according to No College Mandates, which monitors remaining COVID-19 mandates on college campuses.
Rutgers University, among those still mandating the vaccine, has threatened to disenroll students who do not comply.
“That university that’s wanting to mask up and do all this testing — zero cases,” Paul noted. “But even worse than that, even when COVID was really more potent in 2020, the death rate for young, healthy people turned out to be close to zero. We don’t know for sure because the CDC won’t release it, but we do know that Germany released all of their data, and not one young, healthy person died. So, it’s a crime to mandate masks. It’s a crime to mandate vaccines, which do have some risks for young, healthy people.”
“To see this coming up again, these people have no shame,” he added.
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Paul predicted that if sweeping mandates start to rise up, they will be met with resistance.
“I promise you, we are not going to lay down and take it again,” the senator said. “There will be more resistance the next time. We will fight back, and we will point out that they are making money off of this. These are not high-minded people. They are making money off of us and making money off of generating hysteria.”
