Journalist John Stossel has had a career at ABC (hosting 20/20) and Fox Business News. He has a libertarian tilt (similar to Sen Rand Paul).

In the interview, Sen Rand Paul makes some interesting points, about govt mandates leading to overreach (and inevitably leads to govt-as-church dictating unscientific policy, Fauci having the gall to claim "I am science"), Fauci as supporter of "gain of function" research, and how vaccination has been widespread in the US without needing to go into compulsory vaccination territory. Also the groups less at risk have understandably been less keen - and he goes over the unscientific rationales being given for vaccinating young children.

He also examines the unscientific and unhealthy ignorance of natural immunity as a thing.

Some discussion of Omicron as a milder variant.

Middle part gets into Sen Rand Paul economic views - and there is a discussion about Bernie Sanders, Sweden and Scandinavian countries and their social programs and the tax regimes in US. Compare Swedish-Americans to Swedish in Sweden. Some commentary on socialism, and why "it always involves violence" at some point.

And the difficulty of libertarian candidates like him to get votes in Presidential elections.

 

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Video:

https://rumble.com/vr5cop-rand-paul-on-vaccine-mandates-inflation-socialism-and-his-fights-with-fauci.html

Rand Paul on Vaccine Mandates, Inflation, Socialism, and his fights with Fauci

John Stossel

December 21, 2021

Rumble — Dr. Anthony Fauci says people who criticize him are "really criticizing science.”

Sen Rand Paul compares that to the medieval Church punishing people for questioning church dogma.

Here’s a longer interview with Dr. Paul on Covid, Fauci, socialism and more.