Thanksgiving weekend was rocked by reports of a new Covid mutation, quickly named "Omicron Variant," which resulted in lockdown-happy "public health officials" across the globe pushing the panic button. Actual doctors reporting from "ground zero" in South Africa, however, report that the infections thus far from the new mutation are much more mild than the "Delta Variant." Also today: Fauci jumps the shark, claiming that "I represent science!"
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Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, welcome to the program.
Happy Monday, Dr. Paul.
Very good.
Our format today is slightly different, but we wanted to get our message out.
Lots of interesting things going on.
And guess what?
We're going to be talking about COVID a little bit more because there's a little bit of fear-mongering going on.
Major crises, over a trillion dollars of value in the stock market went down the other day because somebody said, There's a virus coming.
There's a virus coming.
Get ready.
And the people panicked.
And yet the next day, somebody said, Well, maybe it's not so bad.
So things went back to normal, so to speak.
But anyway, Daniel, we want to talk about it because, you know, it's interesting.
I wanted to talk about this even before this threat with the new virus that just came out.
Because you and I had talked about Africa.
We were fascinated with the fact that there were not many cases in Africa.
And it's a big continent and they didn't have that much of a vaccination.
So it was a good story.
And yet, not too long after that, I read a story, heard a story that they were purchasing and supplying and planning with a lot of vaccines.
And they've done that before.
The vaccine comes before the disease.
So they did that.
And lo and behold, the vaccine came and now they're ready to go.
But there's been a major, major panic over this.
I mean, the usual suspects round them up because they're the same one who and Fauci and the rest of them, you know, are fear-mongering because they can't let this go.
And it's utterly amazing that they can get away with this.
And they just, you know, buckle down and stick to their position.
And they keep putting out the same thing no matter how favorable the news is.
Matter of fact, as we talk a little bit today, Daniel, I think we can make a point that all this stuff about a new virus coming out might give us some good news rather than bad news news because some people are saying, oh, it's much, much worse.
It's going to be the worst part of the virus ever.
And they're starting to lock down and cancel travel, the whole work.
So this is a shame.
So let's hope we can contribute to a little bit of balance with this issue.
Well, you know, just over Thanksgiving weekend, you know, just as people were settling down and settling into digesting their turkey, of course, there was this massive explosion across the world.
The Omnicron variant has emerged.
And of course, it sounds like a villain out of maybe a James Bond movie or something.
So many people have noted that the anagram for Omnicron is moronic, and that's probably more apt.
But as you're right, Dr. Paul, it caused an enormous scare.
The market crashed and the usual suspects started screaming for lockdowns.
The UK blocked anyone from Africa from coming to the UK.
Israel, which has been absolutely insane this whole time, blocked everyone from coming to the country.
Nobody can come, even though they're 150% vaccinated with four or five boosters, whatever they have.
No, it's not good enough.
It's not good enough.
So there was a massive, massive scare.
And as you say, Africa, which has not experienced COVID deaths like the rest of the world, despite being only 6% vaccinated, found itself the pariah of the universe because they discovered it in South Africa.
Interestingly enough, the first two patients were both fully vaccinated who had this so-called variant.
But the head of a world organization for doctors said that we need to have worldwide lockdowns on and on and on.
But here's something interesting, and I'll just leave it at this, Dr. Paul, as an opener, is Angelique Coetzee.
She's the chairwoman of the South African Medical Association, right?
She's the medical doctor, chairperson of their association.
She said, hang on a minute.
We discovered.
I discovered it.
I reported it.
But she said the new Omicron variant results in mild disease without prominent symptoms.
Here's what she said.
It presents mild disease with symptoms being sore muscles and tiredness for a day or two, not feeling well.
That's basically all they've had.
They haven't admitted anyone into the hospital.
She said it could change, but what we're looking at right now is not such a big deal.
Why is everyone freaking out over it?
Well, I think we know the answer to that question, Dr. Paul, having done almost exclusively COVID over the past year and a half or so.
People are freaking out because the people in power want them to freak out.
Right.
You know, it wasn't long after this story broke that Fauci had to give his statement.
It's almost like if he doesn't have an excuse, they create an excuse for him to get on to major shows.
And in the meantime, he sort of likes to poke fun at one of my relatives that he has a chance.
He has that forum.
But he's made a lot of use of it.
But I don't think he's gaining in stature.
And he's there.
It looks to me like he's just stirring the pot, stirring the pot.
Don't let it settle down.
And his statement included the adamant point that it will come here.
He's just very certain it will come here.
But get prepared.
You know, get prepared.
This is coming.
This is serious.
But fear not, he already has a plan.
He has a plan for taking care of a pandemic that has spread to Africa, which may not even be, has occurred.
And yet he has a plan.
And, you know, the fawning over this by the media really is pretty nauseating how the propagandists promote all this stuff.
But I don't think there's been another time in medical history where people have panicked.
There's been a lot of panics over the history, but I don't think it's ever been so worldwide and so many people involved, so many governments and so many medical organizations.
So it's a delight when you come across one individual that's sort of part of the establishment and say, hey, maybe we ought to go, maybe we ought to go a little bit slower.
And, you know, there was one doctor that sort of goes back and forth in the middle of this thing on Fox.
And I thought he had a pretty decent statement on there because he looked at this and he said, you know what?
We better not just get too panicky about this because there's a possibility that this may be a very good sign that when a vaccine is losing its intensity and its ability to spread, you know, there's a lot of different ones, but it's also a sign that they're weaker and they spread less so.
And he was saying, he wasn't saying he knew the answer, but he was suggesting this.
And now some of our friends would be saying that, and we would understand that and they've known what to expect.
But he said it was coming from a source where a lot of people might say, hey, maybe this isn't the end of the world.
And I think the day that I'm looking forward to is when the so-called establishment medical community wakes up and says, you know, maybe we overreacted.
Maybe, maybe we just, you know, shouldn't have panic like we have.
But the sad part is in the past, when medical professionals and the doctors overreact, they sort of try to ignore and go away because they don't want to have it called to their attention.
So they're not likely to do that.
But right now, the people are leading the charge.
That's what I like.
You know, it's not, unfortunately, it's not the physicians say, you know, we can start backing off on this.
But just think of the people now that say, you know, we don't need this.
And they're going out.
And in truth, there aren't more people dying or more people getting infected unless they go and start searching for one and turn a whole continent into panic.
And that's why they have to have a place to sell those vaccines.
And the vaccines came before the virus did.
But anyway, it's a real mess.
But I think we can look at it, Daniel, and say more people are waking up.
And that's our job is try to get as much good information out as we can possibly get out.
And it is like you say, Dr. Paul, I mean, I'm not a virologist, but everything that I've read says that the more mutations of a virus undergoes, the weaker it is.
It may be more virulent.
As it becomes, it'll become dominant.
It's actually weaker and causes less serious illness and death, which should be good news, but nobody wants good news.
We've talked about this over and over for the past year and a half.
They don't want anyone to let their guard down because that means it might slow the uptake in the shots or what have you.
But here's an interesting point that Jordan Stachtel pointed out, and he does a, that's called the dossier as a substack, and he's a very, very good journalist.
He pointed out that the hype for the for the Omicron variant came out of the UK, number one, but not just out of the UK, but it came out of Imperial College.
And if we remember Imperial College, that's Niall Ferguson.
That's the guy who initially hyped the COVID-19 sickness way, way back in the beginning as millions and millions will die.
He's the father of lockdowns.
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His idea is if you don't lock everyone down, millions of his modeling was so inaccurate, so incorrect.
And in fact, he didn't even follow his own rules because he snuck out to be with his mistress.
But this is the college, this is the modeling group that was so wrong.
They're the ones hyping this variant.
They're the ones that are pushing the fear machine.
And they're the ones, of course, who should be completely discredited.
But they never look back.
But I wanted to comment on something you mentioned, Dr. Paul, which is the Fauci interview, because it really is worth talking about a little bit.
Now, Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation really doesn't deserve to be called a journalist, because if anyone watched the fawning interview that she did with Fauci, oh, Dr. Fauci, please tell us how hard is it to be so wonderful as you are.
I mean, it was so disgusting.
It was so saccharine that you felt like you could get diabetes from watching it.
But here's the part that everyone was talking about.
She said, oh, Dr. Fauci, isn't it so hard on you that you get so get criticized?
And here's what Fauci says.
Anybody who spins lies and threatens and all that theater that goes on with some of the investigations in the congressional committees and Rand Paul and all the other nonsense, that's just noise, he said.
And then he said something that is truly bizarre and should disqualify him for any further appearance in public life.
He said, they're really criticizing the science because I represent science.
That's dangerous.
This guy, Dr. Paul, I think, is certifiable.
Oh, probably true.
You know, the whole thing on this, there are many now saying this variant is very, very weak.
But there's a noose twist on this.
There's been a little bit of this, but Africa's involved.
And all of a sudden, there's been no vaccines there.
So for some people, this is an opportunity to boost racism.
You know, this is, they said, there's not enough equity.
The vaccines haven't been there.
They have been withheld.
And sometimes the propaganda was biased and got people in Africa to be a little bit leery, you know, of taking it.
But this now has been shifted.
Not too long ago, it wasn't on as precisely the same issue, but I said everything is racist.
And I think most people know what I'm talking about there.
No matter what kind of social problem going on now, it's never good, bad, and evil.
It's racism that has caused all our problems.
And now they're doing that with this.
Wouldn't it be ironic when the dust settle that this so-called racism and some of these natural things and what has happened might have been beneficial, you know, to the people in Africa.
But people would call that being cynical.
But there's a lot of people in this country right now that are sick and tired of being propagandized and told that they can't do this and that you can't even talk about natural immunity.
That's one of the most outrageous things of this whole thing.
You can have a different opinion, but if you give it and you say it in public, you can be fired if you're a doctor, even though you're one of the best doctors in the world and doing a tremendous job and coming across with more common sense than ever.
And yet they want to be punished for this.
And that when the pandemic's over, we know that will be canceled.
We'll have to change that.
But we're seeing signs that more and more people now have heard the people who are discovering natural immunity, some of them didn't realize, oh, is that something new?
That sounds pretty interesting.
It's been around for a long time, probably hundreds of years.
They understood the principle of natural immunity.
Well, that's interesting that you mentioned that because going back to the Senator Paul's response to Fauci saying, I represent science.
If you criticize me, you criticize science.
Here's what Senator Paul said in response to that kooky, kooky statement by Fauci.
The absolute hubris of someone claiming they represent science.
It's astounding and alarming that a public health bureaucrat would even think to claim such a thing, especially one who has worked so hard to ignore the science of natural immunity, as you just said.
He is the science denier, according to not only Dr. Paul the senator, but thousands and thousands of other doctors and hundreds and hundreds of years of history of understanding immunity.
So he's the one that's out that's distorting science, and he's the one who's misinforming people, according to the Senator.
Right.
And we'll continue to follow this, but I think it's going to wind down because I think facts and science are on our side, and people are starting to realize that.
But they're not going to give up.
So we have to be vigilant.
But I want to go just slightly off the track on this and mention something I find interesting because the three major automakers in this country have had an agreement.
The unions have had agreement that they wouldn't enforce the mandates.
And I go, well, boy, that's good.
It is good.
Let's people hit these mandates.
But it was pseudo.
It was politics.
It was Democrat versus Republican.
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There were a lot of reasons, but still, they had it was less burdensome to be able to do it.
And they were going to not be forced to, but they were going to be asked to voluntarily do it.
And, you know, that sort of thing.
So they did this, but the whole problem is the people who do this don't realize that there may be some ramification.
But the fact that they went in this direction, but the bigger picture of this is how can rights be so relative?
That's one thing that bugs me all the time.
They don't think they discriminate.
In this case, you say, well, you're not, we're not discriminating against the workers.
No, we're discriminating against the other people that haven't been lightened up on some of the rules.
They just don't see things as individual rights, and everybody deserves equal rights as a person, regardless of what group you belong to or what continent you live on.
People should be able to make their own choices.
And that's why it fits well to argue the case on what we should have done.
It is would be better taken care of in a voluntary society.
And that, of course, means that there'd be a lot more freedom of choice.
Absolutely, Dr. Paul.
Well, if we're ready to wind down here, do you think?
Sure.
Okay.
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Dr. Paul?
Very good.
And I want to close with just one other point.
You know, one thing that they did immediately, or they're in the process of doing, and that is banning travel.
Our government said in six countries from South Africa, they can't come here.
South Africa has put a ban on travel.
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And those kind of things sometimes they linger.
Just think of all the things, Daniel, we fought over the several years, or especially after 9-11.
You know, there were other ways of handling any danger that would come about with a repetition of 9-11.
But no, when they put stuff on, regulations on, it's so hard to get rid of.
It isn't that none of it gets reversed, but If they give you about 10 things you have to do, yeah, maybe you'll get two or three of those items back again.
But that's the way it works.
If you that's what happens during all wars, wars against viruses or other kinds of wars, that there'll be a lot of regulations put on us.
And we see now that it's lightened up a little bit.
People can now go to a football game and a few things like that, but it lingers.
The authoritarians play that game, get a maximum amount of regulations on the people, more control for the authoritarians, and then back off a little bit.
People say, oh, good, good, good.
People should be more cautious and understand what liberty is all about.
And that means it's your life and you should be able to manage your life and you should be able to control the earnings and the productivity of your life.