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PADUCAH U.S. Rep. James Comer touched on the issues surrounding understaffed law enforcement at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area while in Paducah on Thursday. The congressman spoke during the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce's Power in Partnership breakfast.

As we reported Tuesday, the issue was discussed earlier this week by the Lyon County sheriff and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul while Paul was visiting Eddyville.

The sheriff told Local 6 that LBL can hold more people than some of the biggest cities in Lyon County, and when the national recreation area's limited law enforcement staff is overwhelmed, his deputies are often the first to be called. The sheriff said that pulls deputies away from parts of Lyon County they're supposed to be protecting.

Thursday, Comer said he and his office have been in contact with federal agencies to make sure LBL is adequately funded for both programs and law enforcement. He said it's an ongoing conversation.

"There were a lot of commitments made to the families and to the communities when the forestry service took over Land Between the Lakes, and unfortunately a lot of those commitments aren't being met now," Comer said. "So, my office is doing everything it can to work with the forestry service to see that the services they're budgeted to provide, and the services that they're legislated to provide, are actually being provided."

Comer also provided his response to the Biden administration's efforts to ban PFAS. He says banning the use of those chemicals could affect chemical plants in the Calvert City area.

"We're against it, and we're speaking out and doing everything in our ability to stop some of these bad, burdensome regulations," the Republican congressman said.

Comer said banning those chemicals could negatively impact the livelihoods of local families.

"There are 5,000 chemicals that would fall into this classification. And the Calvert City Industrial Plant has several manufacturers there that use some of these chemicals to manufacture things. These provide good paying jobs and provide Americans with goods made in the United States," Comer said. "The Biden regulation would ban some of these chemicals that would shut some of these factories down because they wouldn't be able to produce Freon for air conditioners and refrigerators and that would shift the manufacturing to China."

He said he is actively working on messaging and legislation to fight the effort to ban PFAS.

PFAS short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances refers to a group of man-made chemicals, sometimes referred to as "forever chemicals" that don't break down in the environment and the human body. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, those chemicals can accumulate overtime, and there is evidence that exposure to them can have adverse health effects.

According to the EPA:

"Studies indicate that PFOA and PFOS [the most extensively produced and studied PFAS] can cause reproductive and developmental, liver and kidney, and immunological effects in laboratory animals. Both chemicals have caused tumors in animal studies. The most consistent findings from human epidemiology studies are increased cholesterol levels among exposed populations, with more limited findings related to: infant birth weights, effects on the immune system, cancer (for PFOA), and thyroid hormone disruption (for PFOS).

"Oral exposure studies of PFBS in animals have shown effects on thyroid hormone disruption, reproductive organs and tissues, developing fetus, and kidney. Based on dose-response information across different sexes, lifestages, and durations of exposure, the thyroid appears to be particularly sensitive to oral PFBS exposure. The data are inadequate to evaluate cancer effects associated with PFBS exposure."

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) laughs when asked if she feels any responsibility for the deaths caused by her vaccine misinformation.Photo: Screenshot

Conspiracy theorist and Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has spent part of her weekend sowing doubts about COVID-19 vaccines, even though her home state currently ranks sixth amongst states with the highest number of overall infections.

Over the last 24 hours, Greene has reposted two messages against vaccine mandates. Ever since the Food and Drug Administration gave its full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, more workplaces have been requiring their employees to get vaccinated.

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Displeased with this development, Greene has taken to spreading anti-vax messages.

Her first was a retweet of Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a man who spends his time railing against mask mandates and suggesting that taxpayers should fund research into Ivermectin, a veterinary medicine that has been found to have no effect on COVID-19.

Like I have been saying for months, Pauls tweet said, denying the role and value of natural immunity is a serious mistake, and it is not science. Its government propaganda for vaccine mandates, even for those with natural immunity.

His tweet linked to a Bloomberg News article that said that people who recovered from COVID-19 earlier into the pandemic appear to have a lower risk of contracting the Delta variant than those who got two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Despite the articles claim, the only way that people can develop this natural immunity now is to risk dying from a super infectious respiratory virus that has already killed 637,000 Americans.

Greene also retweeted a message from Republican Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie which stated, Natural Immunity >> Pfizer Shot. The vaccine mandates are unscientific for two reasons: 1) they do not recognize immunity from prior infection 2) SARS-CoV2 can be spread by vaccinated people so whats really going on?

Whether he realized it or not, Massie essentially made an argument for employees being forced to take antibody tests. Also, his second claim about coronavirus being spread by vaccinated people is old news. People inoculated against any diseases are still capable of contracting the diseases and spreading them to others. Vaccinations only reduce the possibility of doing so and lower the severity of those diseases symptoms as well.

This isnt news. Its just how vaccines work.

Its unsurprising that Greene opposes vaccine mandates. Foremost, thats generally the Republican position. Secondly, she has disingenuously said in the past that instead of convincing people to get vaccinated, COVID-19 prevention efforts should focus on reducing obesity. Obesity is a risk factor for being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19. She has also compared vaccination volunteers with the Nazi secret police, and joked that people could threaten them with guns.

In fact, Greene compares COVID-19 mask and vaccination mandates to Nazi during the Holocaust so often that the National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. had to issue a letter telling politicians like her to stop making such disrespectful and inaccurate comparisons.

As of August 29, Georgia has reported 1.34 million overall infections and 21,826 related COVID-19 deaths. Those numbers make the state rank sixth in the U.S. for new infections and eighth for deaths. The states recent daily tolls of new cases have been so high that theyve broken its previous records for most new cases reported in a single day.

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Trump shows support for vaccine, gets booed by supporters at rally

Donald Trump recommended that supporters at a rally in Alabama go and get the vaccine, which elicited some boos from the crowd.

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COLD SPRING, Kentucky Hatred of former President Donald Trump has kept researchers from looking into the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin andother drugs to treat COVID-19, Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul told constituents on Friday.

The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control have warned people using ivermectin,a drug used to treat parasitic worm infections in humans and livestock, is dangerous. The FDA went as far as tweeting out a reminderon August 21, "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it."

But Paul encouraged more research.

"The hatred for Trump deranged these people so much, that they're unwilling to objectively study it," Paul said to the 60 people squeezed into the Cold Spring CityCouncil chambers in this Northern Kentucky suburb just south of Cincinnati."So someone like me that's in the middle on it, I can't tell you because they will not study ivermectin. They will not study hydroxychloroquine without the taint of their hatred for Donald Trump."

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It's also why they don't research hydroxychloroquine, he said, an anti-malarial drug touted by Trump as a treatment.

The World Health Organizationin April foundbased on six clinical trials thathydroxychloroquine"had little or no effect on preventing illness, hospitalization or death from COVID-19."

A woman in the audience had asked Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist, why ivermectin wasn't more available.The woman said she had some ivermectin stashed away "just in case."

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Paul told her he didn't know if it works because there isn't enough research.When asked by The Enquirer after the meetings about the FDA and CDC warnings on ivermectin, Paul reiterated what he said in the town hall

"I don't know if it works, but I keep an open mind," Paul said.

One treatment Paul and the nation's top infectious disease expert agree on is monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 in the early stages of the infection.But other than that, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Paul don't get along and have had very public clashes over the nation's COVID-19 response.

Paul spent a large portion of the town hall criticizing vaccine and mask mandates. Paul encouraged older people to get vaccinated but said it's a personal choice. Those who already had COVID-19, like Paul who contracted the disease last year,don't need it, Paul said.

A study published in early August by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionfoundunvaccinated people who have had COVID-19 are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with the virus compared with people who were fully vaccinated after contracting the virus.

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Paul did encourage older people to get vaccinated but maintained his stance that it's personal choice and shouldn't be mandated.

"I think I'm in the middle ground of the vaccines," Paul said. "CNN invites me on all the time. They have announcers calling me an 'ass' on TV. Then they have doctors saying I'm thoroughly anti-vaccine. You heard me, I'm not against the vaccine. I've already recommended if you're at risk to take it...It's still your choice if its a free country."

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Rand Paul undecided on Ivermectin to treat COVID-19, says hatred of Trump hinders research - The Cincinnati Enquirer

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Explaining that it was taking the action out of an abundance of caution, the Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn its approval from whatever drug Rand Paul is on.

The agency emphasized that it did not know what drug the senator was taking, or whether he was taking any drug at all, but asserted that it was withdrawing its approval out of a concern for public safety.

If, in fact, Rand Paul is on something, we want to protect the American people from experiencing the same side effects that he appears to be exhibiting, such as irrationality, irritability, and difficulty processing information, an F.D.A. spokesperson said.

The F.D.A.s action drew a swift rebuke from Paul, who accused the agency of overreach and declared, This is my brain on no drugs whatsoever.

Responding to the Kentucky senators statement, the F.D.A. said that it was reversing its earlier decision but would refer Paul for further clinical study.

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F.D.A. Withdraws Approval from Whatever Drug Rand Paul Is On - The New Yorker

MOREHEAD Sen. Rand Paul visited the Rajant Corporation in Morehead to tour its facility and speak about its expanding operations.

Paul spoke with Rajant owner Bob Schema and other employees about the technology they have created and their link to Morehead. Paul said Rajants location in Morehead is great for Kentucky since many young engineers study at Morehead State University and no longer have to travel to other states to find work.

I think its exciting for Kentucky but also exciting as sort of a symbiotic relationship with Morehead State because youve got these young people that are many of them, most of them Kentuckians that are smart engineers being hired at a tech company and its right here, said Paul.

Schema agreed with Dr. Pauls view on the connection between Rajant and Morehead State, and said being able to hire recent graduates to allow them to stay close to family is one of the best things about their location.

Were very family-oriented and one of the things I noticed when I came down here in 2016 was the intense relationship, multi-generational relationship here and the impact that allowing young folks with engineering to stay here, what (impact) thats had on families has been one of the nicest parts of being able to have jobs here, said Schema.

Paul discussed the benefits of having communications companies like Rajant within the United States as opposed to outsourcing to countries like China or Taiwan, and said he would like to see more technology made within the country.

Ive been talking to my staff for a couple months now trying to figure out what kind of legislation we could do with chips and pharmaceuticals and/or more, maybe even a broader array of things and try to get those things done in our country, said Paul.

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