WASHINGTON — When Sen. Rand Paul clashed with the nation’s most beloved doctor last week over the need for mask wearing after achieving vaccination from the coronavirus, he was unsurprisingly castigated by liberals and mocked by his opponents.
But Paul was undeterred, appearing on Fox News this week telling Dr. Anthony Fauci to “put up or shut up” by providing evidence there’s widespread contraction of the virus from those who have already had it or those who are vaccinated.
There isn’t so far — but Fauci’s case for masks is based on an old Irish proverb: Better be safe than sorry — especially when attempting to emerge from the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish flu.
