"I'm immune!! Fuck all y'all!"

Warren County, Kentucky – where Rand Paul lives – has more COVID-19 cases per capita than 51 of the 67 counties in New England states.

Senator Paul is wrong and the ignorant message he is peddling is dangerous. There is no special immunity to this virus based on where you live. https://t.co/l9u5RBYR2J

— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) May 12, 2020

Well, and the fact rural Kentucky is not as denseley populated as New England (I guess Lousville doesn't count, Senator?) just means the virus hasn't gotten around to everybody yet. Emphasis on "yet."

Adding:

“We’re opening up a lot of economies around the U.S. and I hope that people who are predicting doom and gloom and who are saying, ‘We can’t do this, there’s going to be a surge,’ will admit that they were wrong if there isn’t a surge, because I think that’s what’s going to happen,'” Paul said.

“Outside of New England,” Paul added, “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 and nobody’s going to go to school, is kind of ridiculous.”

I know for a fact that schools in Texas are not closed because Trump or Fauci said so, and won't reopen because Trump says they should.  They are (especially in Texas) independent governmental agencies making decisions based on their own assumptions, analyses, and determinations of what is best for students, teachers, parents, and staff.  If my daughter was still of school-age, especially given the inflammatory syndrome Fauci mentioned in the hearing, I would keep her out of school in the fall no matter what Trump or Rand Paul or even Anthony Fauci said about it.

I really don't understand by Sen. Paul imagines we are all mindless sheeple waiting for the POTUS to tell us what to do.

And there have been 13,000+ cases of covid-19 in the Houston area alone, of which under 4900 people have recovered, and almost 350 have died.  Paul's dictionary has a different definition of "benign" than mine does.