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Rand Paul explains why he's not getting the COVID vaccine

2021-05-28 | 🔗
Kentucky Republican told 'Tucker Carlson Tonight', 'I've had the virus and have immunity'
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Now, back to more Tucker Carlson tonight, researchers confirmed this week, whats been very obvious for more than a year, people of been infected and then recovered from the coronavirus will almost certainly develop antibodies and they will likely last the rest of their lives. Therefore, they do not need the vaccine. Earlier. This year we spoke to one physician who realize this a long time ago. The most unprecedented thing we are doing is deploying it indiscriminately into folks who have been recently or previously infected, and I think we shouldnt underestimate, with the effect of a vaccine. Driven immune response is on the tissues and individuals who have been previously infected. The footprints of the virus persists in the tissues of the previously
infected, so its not a far stretch to imagine that those tissues, such as the inner lining of the blood vessel, would be targeted by the vaccine immune response, and I have not seen any evidence of the FDA or CDC. Taking this seriously. Its a major risk mistake to assume you can put this vaccine into people who have been recently or currently infected and expect that no complications will result. So people who dont need the vaccine are being compelled to get the vaccine thats, not an argument against vaccines, its an argument against the misuse of medicine, any medicine, including vaccines, Rand Paul, is a physician and a u dot s senator from the state of Kentucky and has been infected with covid, obviously recovered and has written an op ed on. Why so many are denying the science of natural immunity to covid. We are happy to have him join us tonight. Thank you. So much for coming on just clarify as a physician in a
sentence or two how people who have recovered from Covid should feel about their chances of getting reinfected to be. My people need to understand that the science of vaccines is based on the science of natural infection. What theyre trying to do is to simulate and get the same response that you get or better with a natural infection. Some diseases like measles, when you get them, you actually have lifelong immunity. You get vaccinated after couple of decades. Natural infection is actually better than the vaccine in some ways. For measles, this isnt, an argument against being vaccinated, just happens to be. If you got the measles, you have lifelong immunity. Smallpox was the same way, but not an argument for getting smallpox with covid. We dont know yet, but they dont know how long you will be immune. I can look back at you and say I dont know how long the vaccine will work already talking about a booster when he comes before the committee, and we ask him how
many of those were vaccinated or had the disease. He has no earthly idea, not even counting them. Even a good scientist will say we should look and see whether those who have already been vaccinated are somehow responding differently. If youve already had the disease and you get a vaccine, you get one thousand times greater response, or maybe that means youre more likely to get symptoms and side effects. I dont think its been studied thoroughly in Israel. There was a study recently and it showed those who were vaccinated and those who are infected naturally had about the same possibility of being reinfected. Pretty small im confused by this. Your job is to promote and then disseminate the vaccine and compel people to take it, which is what we are doing. They cant go back to school without it, so you are forcing this on people isnt it. Your moral obligation to find out with the potential harms are what population should get it? Why are they
treating everyone the same and refusing to ask obvious questions? Theres a huge public health question in India. They dont have enough vaccines, so Dr Fauci is advising the world. What should he tell him? They are the people already had it, or should they save the vaccine for those who havent had it? This is a profoundly important question for a country that has a billion people and might have two hundred million vaccines. Should they wasted on people who have already gotten it. The science says no, but he says we are all lemmings, submit all about uniformity of submission and less about science. These people are scary, and I appreciate your asking obvious questions. When youre a physician, you still have a right to do that. I.
Transcript generated on 2021-07-01.