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Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, clashed with a senator on Tuesday about when to reopen schools in America, acknowledging he did not have the final word on pandemic-related decisions but warning against being “cavalier” about the danger to children.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee that some predictions put forward by experts as to the path of the pandemic are likely to be proven wrong, and challenged the wisdom of extending school closures.

“We can listen to your advice, but there are people on the other side that are saying ‘There’s not going to be a surge and we can safely open the economy.’ The facts will bear this out,” Paul said during Fauci’s testimony to the Senate committee.

“If we keep kids out of school for another year, what’s going to happen is the poor and underprivileged kids who don’t have a parent that’s able to teach them at home are not going to learn for a full year,” he said, adding that he believed it would be a “huge mistake if we don’t open the schools in the fall.”

“As much as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I don’t think you’re the end-all,” Paul said. “I don’t think you’re the one person who gets to make a decision.”

Fauci replied, “I have never made myself out to be the end-all, or the only voice in this.”

“I’m a scientist, a physician, and a public health official. I give advice according to the best scientific evidence,” Fauci said. “I don’t give advice about economic things. I don’t give advice about anything other than public health.”

Fauci then cautioned against jumping to conclusions about a virus with respect to which the scientific community still has blind spots.

“We don’t know everything about this virus,” Fauci said. “And we’d really better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children.”

“I think we’d better be careful that we are not cavalier in thinking that children are completely immune to the deleterious effects,” Fauci said.

Fauci referred to a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to COVID-19, which has killed at least three children in New York and afflicted dozens of others. The syndrome shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease, which can cause inflammation of arteries of the heart.

“You’re right in the numbers that children, in general, do much, much better than adults and the elderly and particularly those with underlying conditions,” Fauci said, adding, “But I’m very careful—and hopefully humble—I don’t know everything about this disease and that’s why I’m reserved in making broad predictions.”. . .

While acknowledging the deadly nature of the virus, Paul pointed to low infection and fatality rates in many parts of the United States and urged a less centralized approach to lifting lockdowns that should take into account the specifics of each school district.

“Outside of New England, we’ve had a relatively benign course for this virus nationwide. And I think the one-size-fits-all, that we’re going to have a national strategy, that nobody is going to go to school is kind of ridiculous,” he said. . .

Icelandic scientist Kári Stefánsson, who studied the spread of COVID-19 in his country, told Science Museum Group in an interview in April that his research revealed not a single case of a child in Iceland infecting his or her parents.

“Children under 10 are less likely to get infected than adults, and if they get infected, they are less likely to get seriously ill,” Stefánsson said in the interview, which took place shortly after the publication of the study he co-authored in The New England Journal of Medicine. “What is interesting is that even if children do get infected, they are less likely to transmit the disease to others than adults. We have not found a single instance of a child infecting parents.”

If the Icelandic conclusions are sound, it would suggest that children may not be at high risk of infection from exposure to one other. The conclusions also imply that teachers may similarly be less likely to catch the virus from their students.

(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Article by Tom Ozimek.)

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Mary
May 26, 2020

Soooo fed up with this so called a virusWhat a joke ! GET THIS COUNTRY BACK TO WORK!!! Let the people make their own choices. Fed up wit the crap that is going on. Our poor kids are looking at all of this and thinking just how stupid this is. OPEN UP AND LET THE PEOPLE GET BACK TO WORK AND THE KIDS BACK TO A NORMAL LIFE ! STOP SCREWING UP THE KIDS!!!! People who don’t want to go back its their choice! WHY ARE WE LETTING GOVERNORS HAVE SUCH CONTROL??????? People stand up and fight. FIRE THEM ALL AND GET THE PEOPLE WHO CARE HIRED AND WORK

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Patricia L Wenzel
May 24, 2020

First of all, I do not envy those who have to make decisions at this time. It is challenging at best. However, there are a few things I know are true:
1. Dr. Fauci has not demonstrated a concern for chiildren in the area of health. If he truly cared about children’s health he would be tireless to be sure vaccines were truly safe and effective BEFORE innoculating them. He would be tireless to find out why 1 out of 35 boys in the USA are on the Autism Sprectrum. He would be tireless to find out why we are number one among the industrial nations with infant death. So I would immediately discount Dr. Fauci’s words of concern for children.
2. Many of our founders knew what it meant to seek the strategy of heaven during times of challenge. Abraham Lincoln was clear in his concern that God not be on the side of the north, but that the north be on the side of God. George Washington wrote on his communiques, “No King, but King Jesus”. When the “right way” is unclear there is only one way to go. This is such a time. Apart from the wisdom and strategy of heaven we will fail and move from one plandemic to another. (Yes, I said plan-demic.) There is a way, a new way, we need to move as a nation. It is a plan with a future and a hope. We simply must seek the Lord who is faithful to reveal the way we need to go.

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Holly M harrington
May 17, 2020

Lord God, please help medical professionals who understand the true facts about this disease & how benign it is to get the info to the president & others. May the false info that is causing fear & control over our nation be stopped. May this deceivement be stopped in Jesus name.

Donna
May 14, 2020

I awoke this morning feeling deeply troubled in my spirit about all that’s going on in the world because of the pandemic and the immense fear reports of it have unleashed in everyone, including Christians. I was praying for a solution, and just peace of mind, and the Holy Spirit brought to my mind Psalm 34 which I began to meditate on and pray. The 3rd, 21st and 22nd verses really jumped out at me today as I read them. I feel led to post it here as encouragement and as a way to pray about the current situation.

Psalm 34

1 – I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2 – My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
3 – O MAGNIFY [to make large] the Lord with me, and let us EXALT [to elevate/glorify] his name together.
4 – I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5 – They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
6 – This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7 – The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
8 – O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
9 – O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
10- The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
11- Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12- What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
13- Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14- Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15- The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
16- The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17- The RIGHTEOUS CRY, AND THE LORD HEARETH, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
18- The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
19- Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
20- He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
21- Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be DESOLATE [barren or laid waste].
22- The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

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    Sharon Wolfe
    May 15, 2020

    Yes, I agree with you, Donna! Psalms 34:3 is one of the gods scripture that we must pray for every needs that we have! As we magnify the Lord and exalt his name, our problem & trouble will shrink to nothing!

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Pastor Karen Lester
May 14, 2020

We agree with so many here, and Senator Paul is a doctor, and was being very wise here in his questioning, and his attitude about Dr. Fauci’s opinions about the lockdown. Dr. Fauci has been in government for decades, and is probably part of the deep state we have been at odds with for years. The Dems don’t want the Trump Administration to have a good economy during this election cycle, and want confusion and chaos to reign so their Democrat Socialism can take over. Politicizing everything to get what they want. We have prayed that the eyes, and ears of all voters would be opened and they would see this too. Praying that wisdom and knowledge and understanding directs all leaders and voters to return the House and keep the Senate in conservative hands.

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Laura Sirianni Hale
May 14, 2020

Our state is still being forced on lock down I along with hundreds if not thousands believe truly believe, this is scam using us and our economy to try and keep President Trump from being elected again. Fucci has been wrong on every level, Bill Gates with no medical experience wants to chip everyone so he can control us The Justice system meant to protect us is almost nonexistent. corruption is running rapidly though our great nation! We all see what’s going on and we need people of integrity to truly step up and put those who have lied ,cheated ,threaten, down right trying to ruin our great country in jail ,STOP THE MADNESS PLEASE GOD ,ENOUGH We are the United states of America, our forefathers established one nation under God! Even put in our constitution that to much power in the wrong hands could make the government evil. Its unfolding right before eyes.we have a president who laid down everything to fight for us ,may the plans they have for America! to destroy us- May it happen to them God have mercy and God speed to all of us in Jesus name ,Rise up God and defend us ,king of glory!oh ancient of days,our Father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Oh that you would render the heaven and incline your ear to our cry for justice on all injustices. Recuse us from those who seek to destroy us. Forgive us Father and strengthen our President and reveal all the hidden! evil! they have planned for the destruction of the USA and render your verdict. and restore unto us the joy of your salvation. We will shout unto you a new song , we call for the weight of your glory to fall upon the USA Amen

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Nancy
May 14, 2020

“The ultimate tragedy is not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people”. Martin Luther King words. Yes, we need to pray and pray, but we also need to act against all that the enemy is trying to do. Flood the offices of the President, Vice President, your Representatives, Senators, Govenors with letters to stop the blood genetic testing, mandatory vaccine, the so called tracking of the virus. Speak up to everyone that the only conspiracy is the one that the CDC, WHO, Media, Fauci, are peddling. All lies, to create fear, panic, confusion to control and lead the people like sheep led to the slaughter. Look up facts, none of what they say about this virus is true. They are telling doctors to put down people that died was from this virus. The hospitals are empty, not flooded from this virus like they said would be. The testing is not dependable. One day positive next day neg….completely unreliable. They change they’re minds daily on wearing masks. It is known that more people die from flu than this virus. Kids need to go to school, stop listening to people that want to cripple this country. This is not North Korea, or communist China. The HR6666 bill would make us like them. This is America the land of the free, let’s keep it that way!

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Gary S. Lurch
May 14, 2020

Dr, Fauci works for the deep state! The deep state works for satan! They have separated men and women with womens lib. The cildren do not have parents. Now they designed a virus to kill the old people to silence there voices! The U.S. is natzi germany! World war 2 has not ended, it is still being fought! The only thing that has changed, they are using a virus instead of bullits!
THE UNITED NATIONS MUST RECOGNIZE GOD or be destroyed.

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Amanda Lancaster
May 14, 2020

They attempted this back in 2012. Listen to this woman expose it. Please download the video and share. “the mainstream media in the past couple of days hyping the danger of a new bioengineered bird flu virus which is transmissible between humans as the Globalists try to condition humanity to accept a new pandemic emergency and a mass vaccination campaign with a toxic pandemic jab…Yet again, the people of the world are facing the monolithic threat of a mass vaccination campaign with a pandemic vaccine now proven beyond a doubt to cause harm.
In 2011, the danger of a new pandemic emergency declaration was increased when Big Pharma was allowed to get significant control of the WHO pandemic virus warning system.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlk_Zfz7xhU

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Svetlana Todo
May 14, 2020

Thank you Lord that you loved us first,that you are same yesterday, today and forever. I praise You for You and good and your mercy endures forever. Thank you Lord that you answered our prayers and exposed darkness and enemies plan to steal our freedom, destroy our family, our economy and kill your people. There is no virus coming in September or any other month that our body that is temple of the Holy spirit can not naturally defeat.Actualy Flu like symptoms is just our body by Gods perfect designe removing the the toxins .Food like products,hemicals, radiation,drugs, vaccines are not made by God but by man and body is neutralizing and removing them all the time.
Thank you Lord that we because of Jesus perfect sacrifice we can stand in your presence clothed in cloth of righteousness of our savior to obtain Mercy.Thank you Healing power,thank you Wisdom and Understanding .Thank you that your plans are good and not evil and that you bring all this to good for those who diligently seek your face. I am seeking your face and I want your ways in my life, in my family, my community, in my country.
Dr Fauchy has no place and right to put yet another fear out there .He is
heavily paid by forces that don’t have our best interests in mind and they are against God’s plan for His people and
this nation. I line up with
God’s plan for this nation,I
stay under His covering His Protection and His Provision and say loudly and boldly that my God is still on His tron and that no weapon formed against His
people (His nation) shall prosper!
I thank you Lord that you gave
us sound mind and ability to fight against any attack against our body our mind,our soul and our spirit in the Name of Jesus Christ our savior.
Thank you for strong immune system, fresh air, clean water
freedom, clear communication between brothers and sisters,Peace,Love.
I Love you for you loved me
first. I praise you holly Name. I give you honor and glory, for ever and ever. Amen

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Lisa
May 14, 2020

Here is Houston, there are 1,000’s pf school children that are unaccounted for. Schools have not been able to reach the parents and these kids have not been doing the school packets. So in other words, there are children who haven’t been educated for almost 1/2 year. There is no way we can go back to total online learning. Maybe a combination. Maybe the need to hire more teachers and have smaller classes. Have morning and evening classes. Will need to have more buses if kids are to social distance from each other. Where is this money going to come from for all these changes.

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Ann Quest
May 14, 2020

I pray for the wisdom from KY Senator Paul to be considered carefully in Jesus Name.

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Jacqueline Magnuson
May 14, 2020

Father of all Creation……I come in faith….trust…and courage….standing on the ROCK of ALL
AUTHORITY of Jesus Christ/Yeshuah Messiah and His gifts and tools to overcome the enemy of America the Beautuful. The shed Blood,the Armor,
The Word,the Constitution, Bill of Rights,the Rule of Law the anointing of the Spirit to Stand and take ground in our words and prayers….we are to fight for our freedom and take back the privilege to work for HIS GLORY. AMEN

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Robin Romano
May 14, 2020

Fauci doesn’t know anything about this disease except how much money he contributed to the Wu An lab. He is a traitor of the highest sort and should not be in the position to make any decisions about when this country will open up for business, schools or anything. He is an impostor. He wants to keep us closed to ruin Trump. This is all politically motivated and he is personally responsible for 1,000’s of people’s deaths. May God have mercy on Him and those in our government health organizations. cDC and WHO.

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    Laura
    May 14, 2020

    I agree. Fauci is a fearmonger at the highest level. America has gone through other virus crises, had as many deaths, and yet not closed the country down. Other doctors have made videos concerning the virus and YouTube has taken them down. Where is freedom of speech??

    Lord have mercy on this land.
    Lord let all machinations be revealed and torn down.
    Lord I speak out against a spirit of fear and cancel it’s assignment in Jesus name.
    Lord let the country be completely opened up and the economy recovered.

    Let all this be done to the glory of your great and wonderful name. Amen

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Maureen
May 14, 2020

Father, please shed your light on any evil intent behind plans of extending a quarantine to affect the upcoming election. May children not be caught in the middle. Wake up, people, to the truths of Covid! It’s origin, it’s release, the people behind it.

Arise and shine ! For the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Though there be a darkness over the earth and a deep darkness over the people, His glory will be seen on you … and gentiles shall come to your light.
Isaiah 60:1- 2

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Mary
May 14, 2020

Icelandic conclusions make sense to me. I was taught that the Thymus gland is very important in the immune system,having to do with the manufacture of the T-lymphocytes (warrior cells). Sadly, the Thymus begins to atrophy after puberty. The levels of thymic hormones decrease continuing downward lowest levels at 60 yoa and older. This seems to be borne out in the statistics of the ages most affected by this virus.

It seems we do not have to be frightened about starting schools in the Autumn. The other needs of children seem to be stronger than any risk to them.

I pray that fear will not rule in this and other decisions all across our nation

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Sue
May 14, 2020

Believe we need to look at all options with checks and balances, as to not depend on one human but others opinions, studies and views. Not good to follow Only one human Thinking they have the only answer

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