{"id":1119755,"date":"2021-12-14T23:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119755"},"modified":"2021-12-14T23:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:13:59","slug":"vanity-fair-attacks-pro-death-republicans-for-opposing-vax-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vanity-fair-attacks-pro-death-republicans-for-opposing-vax-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanity Fair Attacks \u2018Pro-Death\u2019 Republicans for Opposing Vax Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvanity-fair-attacks-pro-death-republicans-for-opposing-vax-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119755&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Republicans are \u201cpro-death\u201d as well as \u201canti-science and anti-rational thought,\u201d according to a recent <\/span><i><span>Vanity Fair <\/span><\/i><span>piece that blasts them for being \u201call in on eradicating Biden\u2019s vaccine mandates for businesses,\u201d while charging they will persist \u201cuntil every American has the right to get COVID-19.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A <\/span><i><span>Vanity Fair <\/span><\/i><span>essay published on Wednesday, penned by politics correspondent Bess Levin and titled \u201cBehold, the Many Ways Pro-Death Republicans Are Going After Biden\u2019s Vaccine Mandates,\u201d began by accusing Republicans of opposing both science and rational thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cSomething you\u2019ve probably picked up on over the last nearly 21 months is that Republicans are both anti-science and anti-rational thought,\u201d Levin wrote.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2222222222222\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThey won\u2019t stop until every American has the right to get COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the latest from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/besslevin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@besslevin<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kYd7L7qHjk\">https:\/\/t.co\/kYd7L7qHjk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VanityFair\/status\/1470269302909587459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s why, since the beginning of the pandemic, they\u2019ve fought every single public health measure known to stop the spread of COVID-19,\u201d she added, \u201cfrom social distancing to mask wearing to getting vaccinated.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>According to Levin, unlike \u201creasonable people who don\u2019t get their medical advice from Fox News,\u201d conservatives devote \u201cevery waking hour to both fighting Joe Biden\u2019s attempts to end this thing once and for all and blaming him for it not being over already.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The essay also claims that Republicans, who are \u201care all in on eradicating Biden\u2019s vaccine mandates for businesses,\u201d \u201cwon\u2019t stop until every American has the right to get COVID-19.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, in an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/12\/republicans-covid-marjorie-taylor-greene-matt-gaetz-ron-johnson\"><span>essay<\/span><\/a><span> titled \u201cRepublican Idiot Brigade Debuts Dumbest COVID Claims Yet,\u201d Levin accused Republicans of having \u201ca lot of extremely stupid things to say about COVID-19.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUnfortunately, since the pandemic has lasted longer than anyone could have imagined, conservatives have had to up their game re: the absurd things coming out of their mouths, from just stupid to historically moronic,\u201d she wrote, adding it is \u201ca challenge they have been more than willing to take up, rolling out an official idiot brigade of commentary that belongs in a study of people who\u2019ve suffered traumatic head injuries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Levin then blasted \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for contrasting the lack of obsession over outnumbering cancer-related deaths with those of COVID-19, as well as Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for \u201csuggest[ing] that people would be better off contracting the virus,\u201d and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) for claiming that White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has \u201coverhyped\u201d the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18958594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1356217545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18958594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1356217545-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"642\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President, speaks alongside U.S. President Joe Biden as he delivers remarks on the Omicron COVID-19 variant following a meeting of the COVID-19 response team at the White House on November 29, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cWhy do these people refuse to get vaccinated?\u201d she asked in reference to Republicans who choose not to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBecause the Trumps (and Greenes, and Johnsons, and Gaetzes) of the world are lying to them, of course,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Republicans have voiced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-congress-d48c96a241ea8922420a3866c6adda2d\"><span>opposition<\/span><\/a><span> to vaccination mandates in recent months, citing fears of government overreach and potential job losses.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think, actually, the mandate has made it worse in terms of hardening people who don\u2019t want to be told what to do by the government,\u201d said Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf you look at my state, 40% of my state\u2019s workforce stands to lose their job under this mandate,\u201d said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). \u201cIt will be a killer to our economy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>However, Democrats have often likened those opposed to undergoing vaccination to ignorant individuals who oppose science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blamed the unvaccinated for the pandemic\u2019s continuance.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSome of the anti-vaxxers here in this chamber remind me of what happened 400 years ago when people were clinging to the fact that the sun revolved around the Earth,\u201d he said. \u201cThey just didn\u2019t believe science.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, the Senate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/senate-aims-to-reject-bidens-vaccine-mandate-for-businesses\/\"><span>approved<\/span><\/a><span> a resolution nullifying the Biden administration\u2019s requirement that businesses with over 100 workers have their employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing and wear masks at work, after Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Jon Tester (MT) joined 50 Republicans to vote against it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;@JoshuaKlein.<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are \u201cpro-death\u201d as well as \u201canti-science and anti-rational thought,\u201d according to a recent Vanity Fair piece that blasts them for being \u201call in on eradicating Biden\u2019s vaccine mandates for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}