The CDC can't dictate public health behavior but they should offer suggestions about health behavior. Which the government should take seriously.
Precisely. Anyone convinced Paul doesn't know this, that the CDC cannot "dictate" anything?
Paul is lying, and slandering Fauci, and it's interesting to think about why. The only reason I came up with, if schools remain closed, parents cannot go to work, and not make the plutocrats a buck. Hence Paul and Trump went war against the health experts to discredit them, so that schools reopen.
The lying goes on and on:
Senator Paul: (01
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Dr. Fauci, every day, virtually every day we seem to hear from you things we can’t do. But when you’re asked, can we go back to school, I don’t hear much certitude at all. I hear, well maybe it depends. All of this body of evidence about schools around the world shows there’s no surge.
Yeah, in states with a few dozen, or a few hundred new cases a day, not 50,000.
Also of note (same link):
Dr. Fauci: (01
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Thank you, Senator Paul. So very quickly, Senator Paul, I agree with a lot of what you say about this idea about people having to put their opinions out without data. And sometimes you have to make extrapolations because you’re in a position where you need to at least give some sort of recommendation. But if you were listening, and I think you were, to my opening statement and my response to one of the questions, I feel very strongly we need to do whatever we can to get the children back to school. So I think we are in lock agreement with that. The other thing that I’d like to clarify very briefly is that when things get in the press of what I supposedly said, I didn’t say. I never said we can’t play a certain sport.
Dr. Fauci: (01

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What happens is that people in the sport industry, they could either be people from players association, owners, people involved in the health of the players ask me opinions regarding certain facts about the spread of the virus, what the dynamics are. I give it and then it gets interpreted that I’m saying you can’t play this sport or you can’t play that sport. I agree with you. I am completely unqualified to tell you whether you can play a sport or not. The only thing that I can do is, to the best of my ability, give you the facts and the evidence associating what I know about this outbreak. Thank you.
So much about "dictating" whatever... But the OP's handlers didn't inform the OP - who likes to be treated as a mark.