Like his dad, sometimes Paul tries to be the lone nonconformist in the crowd of nearly all conformists. In this case he's probably one of the few Senators not owned by Big Pharma, but that doesn't necessarily make him right in this case.
[Paul's comments were quickly rebuked by his Republican colleague and a fellow doctor, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who said he knew patients who needed liver transplants because they avoided vaccinations. He and other witnesses pointed out that communities become vulnerable to preventable infections when not enough people have been vaccinated, a concept known as herd immunity.
"If you're such a believer in liberty that you should not be vaccinated, there should be consequences if you infect others," Cassidy said.] I believe this should hold true for other types of circumstances where our liberty is at stake.
