in a recent Daily Beast interview.When asked about openly ignoring social distancing recommendations, Paul told the website, “Yeah, I mean … it’s time for us to open up.
Obviously it’s a controversial subject, but it’s time for our nation to open up and go back to normal.”He continued, “There are people losing jobs, there are small businesses who are going bankrupt, there are millions of people who are unemployed right now, people are turning to alcohol and drugs to cope with everything that’s going on.
This is the most detrimental thing to our society. COVID cases are at less than 1 percent, and I think the disease is a hoax.”Paul also incorrectly compared the number of deaths from Coronavirus to the number of deaths from the flu and.