Current Events > "There should be no mandates - zero - concerning covid" -Ted Cruz

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ted-cruz-calls-zero-covid-133500026.html

As a resurgent coronavirus is forcing states to address soaring cases and hospitalizations, Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Rand Paul (Ky.) denounced health mandates against the virus at a time when the United States recorded its highest single-day number of new cases since January.
The United States reported nearly 160,000 cases on Monday, pushing the seven-day average to almost 115,000 daily, according to data compiled by The Washington Post. It was the most severe day for new cases in the country since Jan. 29, when coronavirus vaccines were not widely available. Hospitalizations are also up to nearly 70,000 as businesses and schools grapple with mandates for vaccinations and masks during the fourth wave of the pandemic.

But Cruz said to Fox News host Sean Hannity that no health regulations are needed to help curb a nationwide surge fueled by the highly transmissible delta variant and the millions who remain unvaccinated.

"There should be no mandates - zero - concerning covid," Cruz said. "That means no mask mandates, regardless of your vaccination status. That means no vaccine mandates. That means no vaccine passports."

Cruz's call for no covid mandates of any kind came hours after he and Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., introduced two bills that would ban mask and vaccine mandates. The bills would countermand recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends people wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status.

With just half the country fully vaccinated, the White House has taken a more aggressive approach in recent weeks in pushing Americans to get inoculated. President Biden has told federal employees they must get vaccinated or they will have to wear masks and maintain social distance at work, and he has directed the military to examine similar steps. As The Post's Annie Linskey reported, the Biden administration is in the early stages of reviewing whether to use federal regulatory power, or the threat of withholding funds, as added ways to get private entities to require vaccines.

Texas, Cruz's home state, is seeing a rise in new infections that is now limiting the availability of hospital beds. A Houston hospital system is preparing huge tents to treat an overflow of patients, while a doctor there said intensive care units in the city resembled a "war zone." The state is averaging more than 13,500 new cases a day, trailing only Florida.

Yet Cruz accused Biden, without evidence, of "imposing unscientific and burdensome mandates."
"Thanks to vaccinations and the natural immunity of Americans who have recovered from covid-19, America is reopening," Cruz said. "America is recovering, our kids are going back to school, and small businesses are returning as our nation's economic heartbeat."

Cruz joined Paul in denouncing mandates amid a resurgence in cases and hospitalizations. The Kentucky senator - who has fashioned himself as the Senate's chief skeptic of Anthony S. Fauci, the country's top infectious-diseases doctor - released a video Sunday that urged people to resist the regulations implemented by health experts and elected officials to help prevent the spread of the deadly delta variant.

"It's time for us to resist. They can't arrest all of us," Paul said. "They can't keep all of your kids home from school. They can't keep every government building closed, although I've got a long list of ones they might keep closed or ought to keep closed."

Coronavirus cases in Kentucky are up by 50% in the last week, data shows. Almost every county in Kentucky has "high community transmission," according to the CDC.

School districts in the state have expanded virtual offerings as classes start again. In Jefferson County Public Schools, which includes Louisville, data shows that nearly 53% of the more than 95,000 students in the district will not be old enough to be vaccinated, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.

Paul, who Fauci has said does not know what he's talking about when it comes to the pandemic, called the CDC's mask guidance "anti-science."

"Will we allow these people to use fear and propaganda to do further harm to our society, economy, and children?" Paul tweeted. "Or will we stand together and say, absolutely not. Not this time. I choose freedom."

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These people are complete idiots at best and criminally negligent at worst.

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Tell me you're morons without telling me you're morons, Cruz and Paul.

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DepreceV2 posted...

They can't arrest all of us

Ooooooo a challenge!

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Will we allow these people to use fear and propaganda to do further harm to our society, economy, and children?" Paul tweeted. "Or will we stand together and say, absolutely not. We'll let the virus do it instead!

Fixed that for Rand Paul

even kentucky playing into the hoax. not surprised. they'll have hospitals overflowing soon if they haven't began.
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kingdrake2 posted...

even kentucky playing into the hoax. not surprised. they'll have hospitals overflowing soon if they haven't began.

Even Kentucky?

What Kentucky have you been paying attention to?

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A part of me really hopes all these people will get swiftly kicked out of government when the people are pissed off that these republicans are effectively choosing to screw over their constituents, but I'm more upset that this will probably have no impact on that whatsoever.

Like, taking care of the people who voted for them is literally their job. And these assholes are doing the exact opposite.

DrizztLink posted...

Even Kentucky?

What Kentucky have you been paying attention to?

Yea... Kentucky has always been trash so I don't know where that came from

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LordFarquad1312 posted...

These people are complete idiots at best and criminally negligent at worst.

you know, rand is right, they cant arrest all of them... so just arrest the jackasses in power that are pushing this shit!

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Proto_Spark posted...

A part of me really hopes all these people will get swiftly kicked out of government when the people are pissed off that these republicans are effectively choosing to screw over their constituents, but I'm more upset that this will probably have no impact on that whatsoever.

Missouri governor approval rating is UP over this point last year... the voters actually approve of his handling of the pandemic despite Missouri being one of the worst states in cases and vaccinations

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*Cases are spiking and hospitals are overflowing*

"America is recovering incredibly and we will beat this naturally any day now"

Neither delusional idiots nor mass murderers should be in positions of power and Republicans in Congress are one of those.

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There should be no more federal aid for Texas regarding covid also then

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I like how Republican voters are constantly living in fear that Democrats are trying to destroy their lives and kill their kids but the people they keep voting for are literally destroying their lives and killing their kids

It just defies all logic. Brain parasites is the only reasonable explanation, though the poor things probably starve to death after a couple of minutes.

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"Choose freedom!"

"Who the fuck do you think you are thinking you can shop anywhere you feel like while gay? And women choosing what to do with their own bodies? Fuck outta here with that bullshit. What about my freedom to tell you what to do?"

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thronedfire2 posted...

There should be no more federal aid for Texas regarding covid also then

Fortunately for the sane citizens of Texas, we now have a President that isnt a petty pathetic manchild that withholds aid from his citizens because the state they live in voted for the other guy.

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littlebro07 posted...

Brain parasites is the only reasonable explanation, though the poor things probably starve to death after a couple of minutes.

lol

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heres a mandate ted

go fuck yourself.

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Ted Cruz really is just pure evil. I try to consider Hanlon's razor often, but he's been doing this a long time. He just straight up doesn't care

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Guide posted...

Ted Cruz really is just pure evil. I try to consider Hanlon's razor often, but he's been doing this a long time. He just straight up doesn't care

He might not be the Zodiac Killer, but he found his own body count.

It seems inevitable that this shit is going to come to a head. It's just a shame that we might go to civil war over whether we should save people and end a virus or kill millions to protect a naive and idealistic version of "personal" freedom that never fucking existed in the first place.

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Over a year and a half later, and the GOP response to the pandemic is to still pretend that it doesn't exist.

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littlebro07 posted...

Fortunately for the sane citizens of Texas, we now have a President that isnt a petty pathetic manchild that withholds aid from his citizens because the state they live in voted for the other guy.

they're literally fighting against the federal government's efforts to control a deadly pandemic. so they can get more votes in 3 years, if their voters live that long.

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The Lizard People really want us dead, don't they?

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littlebro07 posted...

Fortunately for the sane citizens of Texas, we now have a President that isnt a petty pathetic manchild that withholds aid from his citizens because the state they live in voted for the other guy.

At a certain point it's the "smoker in the hospital" problem. Do you spend tax money on people who choose to do harm to themselves? If we lettint people with covid into hospitals, we'd hopefully see a lot more vaccinations and masks.

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au_gold posted...

Lol this cant be real

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He looks like Dom DeLuise's evil twin

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Trumpism is a dying act to cling on to. These fuckers are doing a great job of expediting the demise of their party.

Why are these murderers not in jail yet?

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Choke for eternity in hell.

His mother must wish she had swallowed him.

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