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'They can’t arrest us all': Sen. Rand Paul slams mask mandates and lockdowns and urges resistance, saying: 'choose freedom'

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

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 Senate, where more lawmakers are vaccinated). He accused her of being 'drunk with power.'

'Speaker Nancy Pelosi — you will not arrest or stop me or anyone on my staff from doing our jobs. We have all either had COVID, had the vaccine, or been offered the vaccine. We will make our own health choices. We will not show you a passport, we will not wear a mask, we will not be forced into random screening and testing so you can continue your drunk with power rein over the Capitol,' he wrote. 

Paul called Speaker Nancy Pelosi 'drunk on power'

Paul called Speaker Nancy Pelosi 'drunk on power'

He told President Biden 'we will not accept your agencies’ mandates'

He told President Biden 'we will not accept your agencies’ mandates'

Paul has tangled with infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci over the origins of the virus

Paul has tangled with infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci over the origins of the virus

Paul, a physician, was the first senator to contract covid. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was under quarantine after contracting the coronavirus despite being vaccinated

Paul, a physician, was the first senator to contract covid. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was under quarantine after contracting the coronavirus despite being vaccinated

His missive came as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is in quarantine after contracting the coronavirus despite being vaccinated. This caused numerous senators who along with Graham had attended a bipartisan gathering on a houseboat owned by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to seek testing.

He also went after President Joe Biden, and threatened to try to slash funding for government agencies to force employees who have been working from home back to the office.

'President Biden — we will not accept your agencies’ mandates or your reported moves toward a lockdown. No one should follow the Centers for Disease CDC’s anti-science mask mandates. And if you want to shutdown federal agencies again — some of which aren’t even back to work fully — I will stop every bill coming through the Senate with an amendment to cut their funding if they don’t come to work,' he said. 

Customers leave a bakery in Chinatown on Saturday, July 17, 2021 before a mandate went into effect

Customers leave a bakery in Chinatown on Saturday, July 17, 2021 before a mandate went into effect

Paul also told the network: 'They're all freaking out right now about the Delta variant,' but acknowledged low death rates for vaccinated people under 50 and even unvaccinated people under 50. 

Unchecked spread also has the potential to infect older people who are unvaccinated and younger people who have not been approved for the vaccine who could then spread it to others.  

He called for 'not getting hysterical over the Delta variant.'

'The only thing that's slowing the virus down is the vaccine and natural immunity,' he said.  

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