Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said he was harassed by a “Karen” in the gym for refusing to wear a mask on the treadmill.
“I was on the treadmill the other day and Karen goes and tells people ‘he’s on a treadmill and he’s running without a mask,'” Paul scoffed. during an interview with Tucker Carlson Friday. “Is this the world we are going to live in, where everyone denounces everyone and the Gestapo is going to come and arrest you?”
Paul used the appearance to also attack Anthony Fauci, who now serves as President Biden’s chief medical adviser. Paul accused the doctor of lying about the risks of immune populations spreading the disease to promote mask compliance in general.
“There are no news reports or scientific studies that say that after vaccination there is some kind of widespread contagion that vaccinated people are spreading the disease,” Paul said. “What Fauci won’t tell you is that he is telling you a noble lie. He’s lying to you because he doesn’t think we’re smart enough to make decisions. Their fear is that if the vaccinated stop wearing the mask, the unvaccinated will say what the hell I’m not wearing a mask either. “
Like many of his colleagues and officials in Washington, Rand Paul is a survivor of the coronavirus and contracted it in April 2020.
Fauci has rejected Paul, telling him at a Senate hearing Thursday that the masks weren’t “theater.”
“When you talk about reinfection and you don’t introduce the concept of variants, it’s a completely different ball game, that’s a good reason to wear a mask”, Fauci I told.