For starters, Paul took it himself. (LATE EDIT: Apparently not, actually.) The vaccine appears to be more dangerous to healthy people than the virus is, but not everyone is aware. More importantly, just like the Covid response created risks far worse than Covid, it also created risks far greater than the vaccine.

Paul's emphasis here is not on convincing people to take the vaccine. In this statement, he's not even attempting to do so at all. It sounds on the surface like he's telling them, "Hey, if you open up, maybe people will take the vaccine." That's not what he actually cares about though. Instead, his entire statement is framed to pressure public officials into opening the country and stop waiting on infinity goalposts. He's effectively telling them they have to do one of three things:

• Admit the vaccine isn't effective.
• Continue pretending it works, and actually open the country like they originally promised.
• Lose further credibility...until eventually, we the people force the country open with or without their approval.

Rand's emphasis has been on opening the country back up from the beginning. This emphasis is correct, because it ties in to saving the most lives possible: The longer it takes to open, the more people will die from homelessness, hunger, drug abuse, suicide, crime, etc. than the total number from the virus AND the vaccine, combined...and the more likely it is that we'll accept totalitarian government and ensuing genocide.

To be clear, Paul is not "trying to convince people to take the vaccine, so we can open." Paul is using vaccine-based framing to pressure these fucks to open the country like they promised.

For starters, Paul took it himself. The vaccine appears to be more dangerous to healthy people than the virus is, but not everyone is aware. More importantly, just like the Covid response created risks far worse than Covid, it also created risks far greater than the vaccine.

Paul's emphasis here is not on convincing people to take the vaccine. In this statement, he's not even attempting to do so at all. It sounds on the surface like he's telling them, "Hey, if you open up, maybe people will take the vaccine." That's not what he actually cares about though. Instead, his entire statement is framed to pressure public officials into opening the country and stop waiting on infinity goalposts. He's effectively telling them they have to do one of three things:

• Admit the vaccine isn't effective.
• Continue pretending it works, and actually open the country like they originally promised.
• Lose further credibility...until eventually, we the people force the country open with or without their approval.

Rand's emphasis has been on opening the country back up from the beginning. This emphasis is correct, because it ties in to saving the most lives possible: The longer it takes to open, the more people will die from homelessness, hunger, drug abuse, suicide, crime, etc. than the total number from the virus AND the vaccine, combined...and the more likely it is that we'll accept totalitarian government and ensuing genocide.

To be clear, Paul is not "trying to convince people to take the vaccine, so we can open." Paul is using vaccine-based framing to pressure these fucks to open the country like they promised.

For starters, Paul took it himself. The vaccine appears to be more dangerous to healthy people than the virus is, but not everyone is aware. More importantly, just like the Covid response created risks far worse than Covid, it also created risks far greater than the vaccine.

Paul's emphasis here is not on convincing people to take the vaccine. In this statement, he's not even attempting to do so at all. It sounds on the surface like he's telling them, "Hey, if you open up, maybe people will take the vaccine." That's not what he actually cares about though. Instead, his entire statement is framed to pressure public officials into opening the country and stop waiting on infinity goalposts. He's effectively telling them they have to do one of three things:

• Admit the vaccine isn't effective.
• Continue pretending it works, and actually open the country like they originally promised.
• Lose further credibility...until eventually, we the people force the country open with or without their approval.

Rand's emphasis on opening the country is correct, because it ties in to saving the most lives possible: The longer it takes to open, the more people will die from homelessness, hunger, drug abuse, suicide, crime, etc. than the total number from the virus AND the vaccine, combined...and the more likely it is that we'll accept totalitarian government and ensuing genocide.

To be clear, Paul is not "trying to convince people to take the vaccine, so we can open." Paul is using vaccine-based framing to pressure these fucks to open the country like they promised.

For starters, Paul took it himself. The vaccine appears to be more dangerous to healthy people than the virus is, but not everyone is aware. More importantly, just like the Covid response created risks far worse than Covid, it also created risks far greater than the vaccine.

Paul's emphasis here is not on convincing people to take the vaccine. In this statement, he's not even attempting to do so at all. Instead, his entire statement is framed to pressure public officials into opening the country and stop waiting on infinity goalposts. He's effectively telling them they have to do one of three things: a. Admit the vaccine isn't effective. b. Continue pretending it works, and actually open the country like they originally promised. c. Lose further credibility...until eventually, we the people force the country open with or without their approval.

Rand's emphasis on opening the country is correct, because it ties in to saving the most lives possible: The longer it takes to open, the more people will die from homelessness, hunger, drug abuse, suicide, crime, etc. than the total number from the virus AND the vaccine, combined...and the more likely it is that we'll accept totalitarian government and ensuing genocide.

To be clear, Paul is not "trying to convince people to take the vaccine, so we can open." Paul is straight up pressuring these fucks to open the country.