Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he was harassed by a “Karen” in the gym for refusing to wear a mask on the treadmill.
“I was on the treadmill the other day and some Karen goes and tells people ‘he’s on a treadmill and he’s running without a mask,” Paul sneered. during an interview with Tucker Carlson Friday. “Is this the world we are going to live in, where everyone reports everyone and the Gestapo comes to arrest you?”
Paul used the appearance to also attack Anthony Fauci, who is now President Biden’s chief medical adviser. Paul accused the doctor of lying about the risks of immune populations spreading the disease in order to promote overall mask compliance.
“There are no news reports and no scientific studies that say that after vaccination, there is some kind of widespread infection, the vaccinated people spread the disease,” said Paul. What Fauci doesn’t want to tell you is that he’s telling you a noble lie. He’s lying to you because he thinks we’re not smart enough to make decisions. His fear is that if the vaccinees stop wearing the mask, the non-vaccinated will say that for God’s sake I’m not wearing a mask either. “
Like many of his colleagues and officials in Washington, Rand Paul is a survivor of the coronavirus, contracting it in April 2020.
Fauci has pushed back against Paul, telling him at a Senate hearing on Thursday that masks were not “ theater. ”
“When you talk about reinfection, and you don’t test the concept of variants, that’s a very different ball game, that’s a good reason for a mask,” says Fauci. told him.