From Aqua Buddha to "Typhoid" Randy

There are consequences to having "libertarian" notions about "freedom" and "government" when other people are involved.  This is why libertarianism is a bunch of bullshit by and for sociopaths and crackpots.  Actions always have consequences to others.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a nepotism if there ever was one to be elected to Congress, decided he was perfectly immune to things that happen to his lessers, so he went around after he had testing for whether he was COVID-19 positive and used the congressional gym and swimming pool, thus exposing everybody else to his germs.   He also ate with colleagues, helping to further the spread.  Despite being a physician by trade, or maybe because he is, he arrogantly displayed the righteousness of being a libertarian:  I've got mine and to hell with you.

Paul then admitted he was COVID-19 positive and is now in quarantine.  He and his father, former Texas representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul, are now having to eat crow because they proclaimed the pandemic was a "hoax" created to curb more personal freedoms.

I believe the pandemic is overhyped, even now, but it sure as fuck isn't a "hoax."

This story exposes the problem with the Pauls:

Prior to Paul's diagnosis, a recent article titled "The Coronavirus Hoax," by his father Ron Paul was published on March 16. In the piece, Ron Paul said that "governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them."

He also called Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, the "chief fearmonger" who "did his best to further damage an already tanking economy," when Fauci appeared on the TV program Face the Nation.

"Over what? A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States?" Ron Paul wrote.

Rand is considered high risk because he had part of his lung removed as a result of being assaulted by a neighbor back in 2017.


The latest figures from Worldometer re USA are 41,569 cases and 504 deaths.  Roughly half of the cases total are in New York.

Speaking of Rand Paul, it is time for somebody to send him down to Texas to meet this dimwit politician:

Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren pic.twitter.com/wC3Ngvtsbj

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 24, 2020