Rand Paul just claimed that nearly all hospitalized Covid patients are vaccinated.

[Nevilledog]

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John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️?🌈
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Rand Paul just claimed that nearly all hospitalized Covid patients are vaccinated. He’s lying, and I’ve got the receipts.


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9:48 AM · Jan 5, 2022

[dchill]

1. It's time he was relieved of duty.

[Aviation Pro]

2. Rand Paul is a fucking idiot and toddler

With zero self-control.

Kentuckistan's finest. 🙄

[Nevilledog]

4. And evil. Don't forget evil.

[MontanaMama]

3. I sure wish his neighbor

would have his way with Rand one more time.

[Walleye]

5. Too bad we can suspend them from Twitter but not Congress for spreading lies about the virus

Fauci:”I want to see officially senator that you do not know what you are talking about.”

[BlueIdaho]

6. Why is it we allow elected officials

To blatantly lie to us?

[Mad_Machine76]

14. You mean

why do SOME people allow elected officials to blatantly lie- and (re-)elect them?

Nobody here or in the reality-based community is buying anything he is saying, nor trying to allow them to get away with anything, but we don't have the media infrastructure or the power to do much about it.

[dalton99a]

7. Traitor, mass murderer.

[YP_Yooper]

8. Perfect example of misinformation

I wish I kept the link another DUer gave because it used real world examples.

A high proportion of vaccinated hospitalizations (obviously not "nearly all&quot is actually a good thing.

1) it reflects a larger vaccinated rate in the population, thus higher admission proportions
2) admissions are not ICU and death. Vaccinated hospitalizations have something like a 10% chance of ICU, and a fraction of that (like 3% of that 10%) risk of death. Unvaccinated are orders of magnitude larger at each stage.
3) higher numbers also reflect higher infections generally in the population, and that leads to the "super immunity" among the vaccinated Fauci spoke to

But details don't matter, right? R Paul frames it like the vacc isn't working to support the Trump cult that doesn't read beyond the headline

[TlalocW]

19. Eventually it will be true, and they'll use it as misinformation

Claiming it's a bad thing. Eventually the number of vaccinated people will be a big enough chunk of the population that their smaller infection rate will still mean more of them in the hospital than the unvaxxed. Example would be if we just had a population of 100 people. If 95 of them are vaxxed, and the failure rate of vaccines is 6%, then 5 to 6 of the vaxxed are in the hospital. Infection rates for unvaxxed are at least 6 times higher, so that's 36% of 5 people or 1 to 2.

Israel actually experienced this a few times last year, and an anti-vaxxed idiot I know claimed that it was proof COVID had become a pandemic of the vaxxed.

TlalocW

[YP_Yooper]

20. Perfect

I need to use that example, if you don't mind

The post I had seen was pretty complicated because it was comprehensive.

[TlalocW]

22. Use it all you want

Also, the vaxxed in the hospital will most likely be not suffering as badly as the unvaxxed.

TlalocW

[Initech]

9. This is just a straight up bald faced lie.

[Cicada]

10. Maybe Paul was technically correct, using weasel words

Most people in hospitals, for all reasons, are vaccinated. Probably all of them are tested for covid. With omicron many test positive for covid, even tho they lack symptoms or have only minor symptoms. So it is possible that most people in hospitals who test positive for covid are vaccinated. Even tho 95% of those hospitalized FOR covid are unvaccinated.

[allegorical oracle]

11. Paul has all the symptoms of being a John Bircher acolyte like the Kochs. Like roaches,

they've been around since time's beginning.

[blogslug]

21. What symptoms. He's just like his father

Old Ron is has been a Bircher for quite a while.

[Emile]

12. Ivermectin is not considered a vaccine Rand!

[peggysue2]

13. Paul says this with a smile

Because everyone's been vaccinated. Which is also a lie. Had we all been vaxxed Covid would have been a memory, a bad memory but definitely in our rear-view mirror.

It's bc of liars like Rand Paul that we're experiencing a 4th surge. Such a giggle!

[gratuitous]

16. It also opens the door for the nitwits to say that nothing "works"

People wear masks, and they still get infected! Masks don't work. People get vaccinated and still get infected! Vaccines don't work. And so on and so forth, ad nauseam.

I've pointed out in different venues examples such as crossing the street or going out in the rain. There's no 100% iron-clad guarantee that a person won't get hit by a car while crossing the street. But looking both ways before stepping off the curb is still a good idea to minimize the risk. If you wear a raincoat or carry an umbrella when you go out in the rain, you're still going to get wet; it's unavoidable. But you're not going to get as wet as you would without these simple precautions.

The nitwits are expending all their brainpower to come up with excuses not to protect themselves and others.

[peggysue2]

17. Yes. X1000!

That too. The influencers, enablers and supporters of all this are . . . evil, despicable. That includes the likes of Rand Paul and his fellow bandwagon Republicans.

Lives are expendable in the pursuit of power and the endless grift.

Someone needs to slap that smile off of Paul's face. Maybe we could enlist his neighbor. LOL.

[Upthevibe]

15. Where's the neighbor?!? n/t

[peggysue2]

18. You read my mind

[Upthevibe]

23. peggysue2....I don't think that neighbor realizes

how much he means to us!

[Vinca]

24. Just read a story about a couple of unvaccinated people who had been married for 44 years.

They died in the hospital within 24 hours of each other. Rand Paul is a pathetic creature. He's trying so hard to get the camera to swing in his direction. Another day, another crock of BS.

[Solly Mack]

25. Not to state the obvious, but Rand Paul is a liar.