The Kentucky senator also offered a vision of how the country might adapt to the virus: staffing restaurants and cruise ships with people who have already had COVID-19, arguing that their assumed immunity from the virus would make such situations far safer.

“If I owned a restaurant, I’d have a whole wing for senior citizens or for anybody who is worried about getting sick, and I would say, all my servers have already had it,” Paul told the crowd. “If I had a cruise ship... everybody would have had the infection that works on the boat.”

Aside from the other issues presented by this scenario—contracting COVID-19 not from servers but from other guests, for example—the science on immunity from the virus is not yet fully understood. Paul, who contracted COVID-19 himself in March, has insisted that those who had the virus are immune, perhaps permanently.

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Crowds gathering after police shoot dead knife-wielding man in Philadelphia.

🚨 - BREAKING: Amy Coney Barrett officially sworn in as Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

🚨 - DEVELOPING Tensions Rising in Philadelphia after Two police officers shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man in West Philadelphia on Monday afternoon, leading to protests near Penn’s campus this evening.

This footage is developing and we will provide more updates as they come

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Philadelphia, PA

🚨 - DEVELOPING: Rioters clashing with police in #Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

🚨 - PHILADELPHIA with a group of dozens still in west Philly, about a block from precinct. Police with shields pushed back crowds as ppl threw bottles

🚨 - Police SUV on fire on 52nd Street in Philly.

🚨 - Still photo of burning Philadelphia Police vehicle.

🚨 - BREAKING: Over 90,000 being forced to evacuate Irvine as the #SilveradoFire ravages over 7,000+ acres in Orange County, California.

🚨- Looks like they're raiding a police vehicle #Philly Philadelphia, PA

🚨 - Just in: State police are responding to the area of 57 and Pine to assist.

PD receiving alert to earlier robbery: GPS tagged bag of money stolen on Chesnut; currently moving EB on Girare from 76 st. Unknown vehicle.

Reports of Philadelphia Police begging for help on the scanners currently... will update shortly

⚠️ MULTIPLE OFFICERS DOWN. MULTIPLE OFFICERS DOWN

Chatter of Explosives at the Police Station correction Rite Aid Pharmacy Robbery and Explosion

Sending K9 units in

⚠️🔥 *MANDATORY EVACUATIONS FOR CARBON CANYON AREA* A mandatory evacuation order is now in place for the areas of Hollydale and Olinda Village, in Carbon Canyon. Residents are asked to leave the area, westbound, on Carbon Canyon.

🚨 - SWAT Team and K-9 units proceeding to the Rite Aid on Chestnut - requesting bomb disposal stand-by.

This is near where the officers were struck and canine units are only officers currently available.