{"id":1138664,"date":"2021-12-21T17:19:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1138664"},"modified":"2021-12-21T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:19:27","slug":"joe-biden-unvaccinated-cannot-celebrate-holidays-safely-putting-other-people-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-unvaccinated-cannot-celebrate-holidays-safely-putting-other-people-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden: Unvaccinated Cannot Celebrate Holidays Safely \u2013 \u2018Putting Other People at Risk\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-unvaccinated-cannot-celebrate-holidays-safely-putting-other-people-at-risk%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=1138664&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\">President Joe Biden said Tuesday unvaccinated Americans were not able to celebrate the holidays safely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know some Americans are wondering if you can safely celebrate the holidays with family and friends,\u201d Biden said during a speech at the White House. \u201cThe answer is, yes you can, if you and those who celebrate with you are vaccinated.\u201d<\/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>The president addressed the surge of the omicron variant of the virus into the United States and used the opportunity to again promote vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Biden acknowledged that Americans were afraid of the emergence of the omicron variant of the virus but tried to reassure them that if they were vaccinated they were safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve done the right thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He again urged Americans to get vaccinated and to get a booster shot and get their children five and over vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople with booster shots are highly protected,\u201d he said. \u201cJoin them. Join us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honest to God think it\u2019s your patriotic duty,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said that vaccinated Americans were \u201cprotected from death\u201d and \u201cprotected by death\u201d and would only get mild symptoms from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The president condemned unvaccinated Americans, accusing them of being selfish.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou may think you\u2019re only putting yourself at risk, but it\u2019s your choice, your choice is not just a choice about you, it affects other people, you\u2019re putting other people at risk,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18231498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18231498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1343313238.png\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: U.S. President Joe Biden rolls up his sleeve before receiving a third dose of the Pfizer\/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the South Court Auditorium in the White House September 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. Last week President Biden announced that Americans 65 and older and frontline workers who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine over six months ago would be eligible for booster shots. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 SEPTEMBER 27: U.S. President Joe Biden rolls up his sleeve before receiving a third dose of the Pfizer\/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden said that the unvaccinated were overwhelming hospitals, making it harder for staff to care for other people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery COVID-19 hospital means that someone with a heart attack, cancer, other serious illness, may not get that bed and that lifesaving care they need in the hospital,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden again warned that unvaccinated Americans faced a greater risk of death from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are unvaccinated you are at a higher risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19, getting hospitalized, and even dying,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The president also continued defending his vaccine mandates for private businesses over 100 employees, even though they continue to be challenged in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know vaccination requirements aren\u2019t popular\u2026 but my administration didn\u2019t put them in place to control your life, they put them in place to save your life. And the lives of others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Tuesday unvaccinated Americans were not able to celebrate the holidays safely. \u201cI know some Americans are wondering if you can safely celebrate the holidays with family &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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-1138664","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\/1138664","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138664\/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=1138664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}