Sen. Paul talks infrastructure, masks and vaccines in Edmonton

EDMONTON, Ky.- Friday morning U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) visited the Edmonton Justice Center in Metcalfe County to speak with local community leaders. 

Community leaders present included the school superintendent, county judge, and other local officials. 

Paul talked about a variety of pressing issues right now.

He once again said N95 masks work but he thinks cloth masks do not provide protection against COVID-19.

He recommended that people over the age of 65 should get vaccinated but is against forced vaccinations due to the idea of immunity after having the virus. 

Local leaders also brought up issues like masks in schools, people not going back to work, and open borders. 

News 40 asked his thoughts on the federal infrastructure bill.

“There’s also huge subsidies in there for the climate change agenda, as well as electrical charging stations. I don’t think the government is equipped to be putting charging stations all over the roadside. Most people who can afford electric cars are wealthy, and they’re Tesla, I think they can afford to put their own charging station in.

”It also helps to put gas stations out of business with the government in this so there’s a lot in the bill that’s not actually infrastructure, it’s going to add a lot of debt.

“On top of that it’s really two for one, Nancy Pelosi said she will not pass the infrastructure bill unless (Congress) pass another $3.5 trillion and that $3.5 trillion which will be added basically to the debt runs a great risk of leading to more inflation and more problems,” said Paul.

On Thursday, news came out that Paul waited more than a year to disclose that his wife, Kelley Paul, bought stock in a company that made a COVID-19 treatment. 

Kelley Paul traveled with her husband to Metcalfe County.

“It is very important, we want to state this. This was in the public domain. This was in the media, this was the head of the WHO who said they were looking at some good results with this drug when I invested in this. So this was all publicly available information. And again I was really hopeful that I was investing in something that might possibly be a cure,” said Kelley Paul. 

Senator Paul also visited Somerset and Russell Springs Friday as well.