Sounds like Rand Paul is just a really dumb dog chasing a bone. He’s so hung up on discussions made during the earliest parts of 2020, before anyone knew anything about the virus. Every discussion between scientists at that point, were based on educated guesses or pure speculation. No one actually knew anything, for sure.
But still, this fuckin’ idiot thinks every wrong guess they made, amounts to a lie. Even though most of them only voiced those opinions to each other, in private. To the public, they gave safe answers, without any of their personal theories attached. Which is exactly what they should have done.
Preach it
Rand Paul is a feckin’ eejit, but is also endowed with ratlike cunning (which goes oddly with his poodle hair). I think he’s cynically distorting the content of those emails rather than misunderstanding it.