Rand Paul

I think there were no deaths from swine flu.

I said, oh, it's going to take over the world.

And, you know, we're going to lose, you know, five percent of our public.

Nobody died.

The epidemic quickly stopped.

But then several people got Guillain-Barre and a few people died from the vaccine.

And I'm not against vaccines.

Look, there are many miracles to vaccines, but they should be used judiciously and the risks and benefit for each individual.

And it turns out COVID had an age differential that was more significant probably than any disease we've ever seen.

It really was an old person's disease.

Well, the belief in the vaccines and the belief that you should do it was like a religious belief.

And that's the way they treated it.

So if you didn't believe in it, you were someone to be demonized as a nonbeliever.

You were to be cast out.

And you weren't patriotic if you weren't wearing a mask.

And even if I've already had it, I'm walking down the hallway.

You know, between the office buildings and the Capitol and all those reporters, they're 22 years old.

Most of them are journalist majors.

They never had a science course in their life.

And they're lecturing me about why I should be wearing a mask.