Rand Paul is an opthamologist. His specialty gives him no special insight into epidemiology, infectious diseases and public health policy. His promotion of anti-vaxxer idiocy condemns him, and Tucker Carlson, as guilty of negligent homicide for the deaths of the vulnerable, gullible idiots who follow his “advice”.

Fauci’s 2020 salary: $434k. Cigna’s CEO and CEO emeritus: $20m and $18.82m. United Health CEO: $12.88m and Cardinal Health CEO: $14.22m. Apparently we have different definitions of compensation obscenity. Here’s why Fauci is a screaming bargain:

“Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV & Hepatitis Policy Institute, was among the advocates fighting HIV/AIDS who hailed Fauci’s work both then and now.

“No one does a better job at explaining and conquering infectious diseases, whether it is HIV/AIDS or coronavirus, than Tony Fauci,” Schmid said. “Not only is he one of the world’s top infectious disease doctors but he knows how to articulate complicated issues and on top of it, understands how to address them utilizing an all parts of society approach. He has been there since the earliest days of the AIDS crisis and can take all of what he has learned and done over the years, including working with presidents of both parties, to now deal with the coronavirus.”

I hereby award you a diploma from the Kellyanne Conway School of Alternative Facts. The diploma comes with a prize: a gallon of Trump-branded disinfectant, a dose of hydroxichloroquine and free beer vouchers at a superspreader anti-vaxxer Trumpster biker bar in Sturgis, South Dakota. I heartily encourage you to spread your public health alternative facts to these Darwin prizes to lower their numbers in the next election, to the benefit of the rest of us who still inhabit the reality-based community.