Dr. Anthony Fauci face-off with Senator Rand Paul about wearing mask
On Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, told the media that Senator Rand Paul is “dread wrong” after the two had a fierce argument about wearing masks in a Senate hearing. Fauci argued that Americans should keep wearing masks even if they are vaccinated against COVID-19- something Paul dismissed as “theater.”
Fauci, told, “CBS This Morning”, “Senator Paul has this message that we don’t need masks, which goes against just about everything we know about how to prevent the spread of the virus.”
Fauci told, “He was saying if you’ve been infected, or you’ve been vaccinated, don’t wear a mask which is completely against all public health tenets. So he’s dead wrong. I mean, I don’t have anything personally against him. But he’s just quite frankly incorrect.”
Paul was an eye doctor before entering politics. He is Fauci’s strongest critic in Congress regularly arguing with him during COVID-19 related hearings. This disagreement happened again on Thursday when the Kentucky Republican refused the guidance for vaccinated people to keep wearing masks in public places.
“You want to get rid of vaccine hesitancy? Tell them you can quit wearing your mask after they get the vaccine,” Paul said. “You want people to get the vaccine, give them a reward instead of telling them that the nanny state’s going to be there for three more years and you got to wear a mask forever. People don’t want to hear it.”
“Well, let me just state for the record that masks are not theater,” Fauci replied. “Masks are protective.”
Paul said that if an individual has an immunity then masks are theatre. If one has immunity then it’s just a means to give comfort to others. To this Fauci totally disagreed.
