Rand: ‘There is no science to defend putting your kids in masks or parents wearing masks’

PAUL: "How can people who are so smart say such stupid things? There is no science to defend putting your kids in masks or parents wearing masks. No science whatsoever. If there were, we would be wearing masks for years and years because for kids, the death rate is about the same as the seasonal flu. It may be less than the seasonal flu. So is Francis Collins proposing that because the flu is with us forever, that parents should be wearing masks around their kids that have the flu? It is absolutely and utterly without scientific evidence. Now, they are all freaking out right now about the Delta variant. One thing is, in all likelihood, true: It is more transmissible, significantly more transmissible. But guess what? Every bit of evidence shows that it's less deadly, significantly less deadly. Public Health England looked at 92,000 people. If you were vaccinated and under 50, there were no deaths. If you were unvaccinated and under 50, .08%. Still very, very small. So it’s not an argument for not getting vaccinated. It’s an argument for not getting hysterical over the Delta variant. We shouldn’t be changing any mandates and really, in all likelihood, the masks didn’t affect the trajectory of the virus at all.“