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Texas Sen. Rand Paul has once again called for Americans to resist mask mandates, lockdowns, and 'harmful' policies, even as another COVID scare makes its way through the Senate.
Paul, who this March became the first senator to contract COVID-19, urged Americans to refuse to comply with government restrictions – even as a spike in coronavirus infections driven by the Delta variant has states and localities reimposing measures like mask requirements for indoor establishments.
'They can’t arrest us all. They can’t keep all your kids home from school. They can’t keep every government building closed – although I’ve got a long list of ones they should,' he wrote in an op-ed.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tore into mask mandates and urged Americans to resist them, as U.S. coronavirus cases spiked amid the spreading Delta variant
'We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and feckless bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again,' wrote Paul, who argues that vaccines for the elderly and natural immunity through infection will provide necessary protections.
In his op-ed, which ran on the Fox News website, Paul rips into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who cited the U.S. Capitol physician last week as the House put back in place indoor mask requirements (the rules are looser in the
