Consult the people who know less
Rand Paul says don’t pay attention to experts on technical subjects like viral contagion.
Rand Paul is the genius who tested positive for the virus back in March, to the fury of colleagues who had been up close and personal with him in recent days. Mind you they still seem to be ok so maybe that means Rand Paul knows better than Anthony Fauci?
Leicester has been put back on lockdown due to a large increase in cases putting a strain on the hospitals. According to the government most of the cases are in children but the increase in hospital patients is presumably in older people. The government is ordering the shut down of schools as a result.
The reason Leicester has singled itself out may be due to multi generational families in small crowded houses (remember northern Italy a few months ago) among Asians. But clearly the kids are easily infecting each other, even if their symptoms are mild. Which is counter to the claims of the execrable Paul.
Consider the difference between the curves of all the other countries Paul cited as having opened their schools. Notice where the reopening started. Hmmm. It’s almost like they got the virus spread under control and then started reopening cautiously.
Rand Paul, the failed ophthalmologist. How bad a doctor do you have to be to argue that having to resit the boards exams are so daunting that instead you set up your own boards and get a phony certificate from them.
Yeah, listening to panels of experts – what a waste of time. Better to ask some knucklehead from Kentucky who couldn’t find his ass with a magnifying glass.
What? Phony board what?
Long story short: The American Board of Ophthalmology changed its policy so that instead of passing the board exams once certified you for life, now practitioners would have to be retested every ten years. Paul railed against this quite vociferously to the point that several members suspected Paul was worried he might not pass.
Anyway, Paul took his ball and went home. Together with some other muppets, he set up the National Board of Ophthalmology and got his certification there. They claim their exam is so much more difficult. But NBO has never been recognized as an accrediting agency.
It’s a stupid story about a deeply stupid man. He and Trump are soulmates.
George, I wouldn’t be so sure that all the hospitalized are the older people. In my area, we are seeing a huge rise in the hospitalization of the under 40s, including young children.
Apparently this disease isn’t so respecting of youth after all.