'You're Arrogant, Not Objective': Paul Rips Fauci For 'Telling Americans What To Do'

dr falchi it's it's disappointing for you to suggest that people who dare to question you are responsible somehow for violent threats realize that by attacking me you're attacking the one member who actually has suffered from violent attacks i was at the ball field today steve scalise almost died i was 10 feet away from a staffer who was shot in the leg we had over 160 rounds of semi-automatic weapons fired at us ammunition so for you to somehow suggest that somehow i or people who dare to oppose you are responsible for threats that's insulting the person who shot at us and almost killed steve scalise was a rabid supporter of bernie sanders but the one thing you'll find if you look at the record is not one of us accused bernie sanders of being responsible for that so this is the kind of ignorant sort of personal attacks that you've engaged in you engaged in these attacks with fellow scientists not only was it three scientists from harvard oxford and stanford that you chose to malign 50 000 scientists and medical doctors signed this petition and what they wanted was something that most americans think is pretty reasonable it's a different kind of approach instead of saying that everyone is the same and everyone should get the same treatment and everybody ought to just get vaccinated what it did is it said that the death rate for this disease is extraordinary in the risk being different according to ages so if you look at an 80 year old it's at least a thousand times greater death rate than it is for a 10 year old so wouldn't we want to say that well we're going to assess the risks of each individual and have the treatment according to that or would we just simply say everyone should be vaccinated the death rate for kids under 18 is about one in a million a little bit less than the chance of being struck by lightning we don't yet know fully whether or not kids who have already had covid might be at risk for some of the side effects of the vaccine still needs to be explored but for a kid under 18 who's already had covid see it's death rate of about one in a million even if you haven't had a disease even if you haven't had cove it's about one in a million it's extraordinarily uncommon for a child to die if you've already had the disease it's probably a great deal less than that many americans wonder why you've steadfastly refused and worked with others to try to hide any kind of knowledge of natural immunity and how it would affect our decision making so for example you know you have a 10 year old kid and his mom comes up and all of a sudden he gets myocarditis from the vaccine and dies admittedly a rare complication but what are you going to tell her when she says well he had coveted three months ago i mean why would you force me to vaccinate my kid why would you force me to vaccinate my kid without even checking to see whether he's already immune now the idea of natural immunity is is the idea upon which vaccines are based we've believed in and all all of medicine is based on the idea of acquiring natural immunity people often respond and say but you don't know how long it'll last well we don't know how long vaccines will last even that doesn't make us anti-vaccine we do know that the vaccines are are waning very quickly in potency we do know that the vaccine against omicron really isn't preventing transmission you've noticed that the debate has shifted the debate is now talking about trying to prevent hospitalizations and death and i agree with those statistics i think it's a good idea if you're at risk to be vaccinated i've always been pro-vaccine i'm just simply against authoritarianism and against mandates the anger that's developed with you dr fauci is that you don't want to give us advice you want to tell us what to do you think you are the science and that anybody responds to you how dare you how dare you criticize science as if you somehow are science that kind of arrogance that hubris is really that's where the anger is coming towards you if you were one doctor a man hundreds of doctors in the government who gave advice i don't think anybody people might object to your advice but there wouldn't be such a degree of anger but you are so certain that you're right that you're not willing to hear anyone else three epidemiologists of which you are not even an epidemiologist with three epidemiologists prominent in their field oxford stanford and harvard you maligned them you spoke openly with dr collins and you did not disagree that let's paint them as fringe you went after them and said we will do a public take down not in science or nature or landsat in wired in the nation a left-wing publication you've engaged in base politics you wonder why there's so much anger you're not an objective scientist you you've lost that long ago and so many of the things that people want it's like they want to know why you're forcing their children to be vaccinated when 95 of people at risk have been vaccinated over 95 of people over 65 it's a huge voluntary success and yet you won't rest until you force every child to get this so yes there's a great deal of dissatisfaction with you and many people want you to go but nobody wishes you violence senator paul your time has expired i will use one time of my remaining five minutes to allow senator fauci to respond thank you very much dr fraute thank you thank you dr murray no no no so first of all um senator again at at a hearing such as this where there are almost 900 000 people in this country have died from this outbreak you have chosen to just personal attacks on me that go back to multiple hearings and again just for the record for people to check i have never said take people down in that email it was an email that was sent to me see and again you agreed with dr collins paul this is my time you know you personally attacked me and the things that you do are incorrect and proven incorrect you've publicly accused me at a hearing of being responsible for the death of five million people when there is not a single single shred of evidence that anything that was done with the nih had anything to do with covert 19. you talk about things like gain of function dr fauci i'm going to let you can uh respond uh continually but i think you have responded and i appreciate it okay i appreciate the time i thank thank you very much madam chair but i just want to say i'm actually stunned by the amount of misinformation the only thing i have ever done and this will take 20 seconds if you look at the things i've said they've been to support the recommendations of the cdc of their advisory committees and of the fda i've told people that it's important to get vaccinated to get boosted to wear a mask and to be prudent that's the only thing i've said i haven't dictated anything that's only a monolith with me it's always public health practices and anybody goes back over any record of me they know that thank you and i will retain the balance of my time thank you very much

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Length: 7min 17sec (437 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 11 2022