Rand Paul Skewers Fellow Senators Over Their ‘Belief In Submission’ To Gov On Vaccines During RFK Jr. Hearing
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul criticized his colleagues for believing that Americans should “submit to the government” when it comes to taking vaccines during Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee…
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul criticized his colleagues for believing that Americans should “submit to the government” when it comes to taking vaccines during Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s second confirmation hearing Thursday.
Kennedy has faced backlash for his previous statements casting doubt on the efficacy of certain vaccines. Paul used his questioning time at the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing to argue for a more nuanced approach to vaccines rather than demanding Americans blindly obey their government.
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“I think the discussion over vaccines is so over-simplified and dumbed-down that we never really get to real truths and it’s why people up here are so separated from real people at home. So we talk about Hepatitis B. It’s a terrible disease,” Paul said. “It could lead to liver failure as the chairman said, but the reason you have distrust from people at home and why they don’t believe anything you say and they don’t believe government at all is you’re telling my kid to take a Hepatitis B vaccine when he’s one day old. You get it through drug use and sexually transmitted. That’s how you get Hepatitis B, but you’re telling me my kid has to take it at one day old … that’s not science.”
Paul asserted he vaccinated all of his children and that he thinks “vaccines are one of the modern miracles beyond all pale.” However, he said he decided to “wait” on giving his children the Hepatitis B vaccine until they started school.