{"id":1142309,"date":"2021-12-22T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142309"},"modified":"2021-12-22T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:35:12","slug":"economist-politicians-panicking-they-will-suddenly-lack-a-podium-from-which-to-grandstand-if-covid-becomes-endemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economist-politicians-panicking-they-will-suddenly-lack-a-podium-from-which-to-grandstand-if-covid-becomes-endemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist: Politicians Panicking They Will \u2018Suddenly Lack A Podium From Which To Grandstand\u2019 If COVID Becomes Endemic"},"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\">34<\/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%2Feconomist-politicians-panicking-they-will-suddenly-lack-a-podium-from-which-to-grandstand-if-covid-becomes-endemic%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=1142309&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>Director of FreedomWorks\u2019 Center for Economic Freedom, editor of RealClearMarket, and economic author John Tamny says that the latest COVID-19 requirements in cities like Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.,&nbsp; are evidence that elected leaders are panicking \u2014 not just because of a virus that they still don\u2019t understand, but also because they realize they may soon be losing their grip on controlling the population in the name of public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic politicians are hustling around the country to enact whatever vaccine mandate they can in the face of the Omicron variant, it does not appear that actual deaths are increasing due to the coronavirus \u2014 despite the higher transmissibility rates of the latest variant. For example, a recent study revealed that Omicron has an approximately 80% lower risk for hospitalization. To that extent, The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro blithely tweeted, \u201cStop you\u2019re interrupting the panic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">STOP YOU\u2019RE INTERRUPTING THE PANIC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u544lwbtk9\">https:\/\/t.co\/u544lwbtk9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1473663333882642442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tamny affirmed to The Daily Wire that politicians are indeed worried about their political future if the Omicron variant really is nothing to be feared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is surely evidence of politicians panicking, both about a virus that thinks so little of all that they do to mitigate its spread, but also panic that if and when the virus becomes endemic, politicians will suddenly lack a podium from which to grandstand,\u201d Tamny told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf war is the health of the State, then \u2018crises\u2019 are the State\u2019s oxygen,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe political classes need what they\u2019ve manufactured to lack an endpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcept that the joke\u2019s on them,\u201d Tamny surmised. \u201cIf the virus is really so threatening as to require responses as dramatic as \u2018papers\u2019 and child mandates, then that\u2019s the surest sign that political force is wholly superfluous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally, who needs to be forced to engage in behavior that might save them from sickness or death, and who most of all needs to be forced to protect the health of their children?\u201d he pondered. \u201cThese questions answer themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But mayors like Chicago\u2019s Lori Lightfoot seems to believe that citizens must be told how to protect their children and ordered to do so with punitive measures added. On Monday, the Democratic mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoots-heavy-hand-vaccine-free-your-time-is-up?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\">announced<\/a> that people in Chicago ages 5 and up would have to show proof of vaccination to enter a variety of shops and venues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, beginning on Jan. 3, you must show proof that you are fully vaccinated to enter bars, restaurants, fitness centers and entertainment and recreational venues where food and drink are served,\u201d Lightfoot said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite our diligent and equitable vaccine distribution efforts throughout this year, unfortunately, our city continues to see a surge of COVID-19 Delta and now Omicron cases,\u201d Lightfoot added. \u201cNew steps must be taken to protect the health and wellbeing of our residents. This public health order requiring proof of vaccination to visit certain indoor public places is a necessary measure to ensure we can continue to enjoy our city\u2019s many amenities as we enter the new year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last March, Tamny released the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Politicians-Panicked-Coronavirus-Opinion\/dp\/1642938378\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3PX3C25B2L6I4&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=john+tamny+when+politicians+panicked&amp;qid=1604355246&amp;sprefix=John+Tamny%2Caps%2C147&amp;sr=8-2\">When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason.<\/a>\u201d In it, Tamny argued that politicians abandoned common sense which ultimately slowed any economic recovery from the virus and in many ways harmed society more than the virus ever could have done.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of FreedomWorks\u2019 Center for Economic Freedom, editor of RealClearMarket, and economic author John Tamny says that the latest COVID-19 requirements in cities like Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.,\u00a0 are evidence that elected leaders are panicking \u2014 not just because of a virus that they still don\u2019t understand, but also because they realize they may &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"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-1142309","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\/1142309","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142309\/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=1142309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}