{"id":1175474,"date":"2021-12-31T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175474"},"modified":"2021-12-31T12:19:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:19:45","slug":"ben-shapiros-epic-thread-on-what-media-democrats-are-finally-willing-to-admit-about-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiros-epic-thread-on-what-media-democrats-are-finally-willing-to-admit-about-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro\u2019s \u2018Epic Thread\u2019 On What Media, Democrats Are Finally \u2018Willing To Admit\u2019 About COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fben-shapiros-epic-thread-on-what-media-democrats-are-finally-willing-to-admit-about-covid-19%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=1175474&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>Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro posted a lengthy thread to Twitter on Friday detailing what Democrats and their allies in the media are finally \u201cnow willing to admit\u201d about COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In the eight-tweet long thread, Shapiro listed ten truths that have been repeatedly denied by those on the Left, but have since been admitted, including the truth about cloth masks, overstated case-counts of COVID-19, what type of protection the vaccine actually provides, and the people who are truly at risk for severe disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo once it became clear that covid was not in fact a pagan god visiting vengeance on the unwashed Trump voters alone, the media and Democrats are now willing to admit the following,\u201d \u201cThe Ben Shapiro Show\u201d host started the thread:<\/p>\n<p><em>1. Cloth masks are ineffective against omicron (Leanna Wen, CNN); <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2. The vaccinated can spread and get covid; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3. The death rate is comparable to the flu (Chris Hayes); <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>4. Many people are entering hospitals with covid, not from covid (Fauci);<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>5. Natural immunity is a reason omicron hasn\u2019t been as virulent (Fauci); <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>6. We have to take into account societal needs, not just spread prevention (CDC); <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>7. The asymptomatic should not be tested (NFL); <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>8. We should focus on hospitalizations and deaths, not case rate (Biden);<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>9. Children are not at risk and schools should remain open; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>10. Covid is predominantly an illness affecting the immunocompromised and elderly and we should not shut down society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1. Cloth masks are ineffective against omicron (Leanna Wen, CNN);<br \/>2. The vaccinated can spread and get covid;<br \/>3. The death rate is comparable to the flu (Chris Hayes);<br \/>4. Many people are entering hospitals with covid, not from covid (Fauci);<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1476890055323144192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">9. Children are not at risk and schools should remain open;<br \/>10. Covid is predominantly an illness affecting the immunocompromised and elderly and we should not shut down society.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1476890800118186022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose of us in reality have been saying all this for months and most of it since May 2020,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut your political priors were more important than the data. You had to have your demonization narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo welcome to reality,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cAnd f*** all y\u2019all for pretending you didn\u2019t know this so you could have fun crapping on Trump and DeSantis and all your red state relatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So welcome to reality. And f*** all y&#8217;all for pretending you didn&#8217;t know this so you could have fun crapping on Trump and DeSantis and all your red state relatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1476891330873802769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author then hit on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Democrats pushing mandates and lockdown measures to \u201cstay in your states and leave mine alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, AOC was revealed to be maskless and drinking outside in sunny Florida, where lockdown measures and mandates have been largely dismantled by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd [by the way], AOC and all you Leftist covid fanatics \u2014 those whose virtue signaling authoritarian lockdown nonsense that has resulted in millions of lives destroyed \u2014 stay in your states and leave mine alone,\u201d Shapiro explained. \u201cWe chose data and freedom. You chose alarmism and unearned moral superiority. Stay in NY, NJ, CA, and the rest \u2014 and enjoy the actual paranoid nanny state you created among your friends who reward you for telling them they will kill their kids and grandma if they don\u2019t panic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We chose data and freedom. You chose alarmism and unearned moral superiority. Stay in NY, NJ, CA, and the rest \u2014 and enjoy the actual paranoid nanny state you created among your friends who reward you for telling them they will kill their kids and grandma if they don&#8217;t panic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1476892432025505794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The thread quickly went viral online. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) quote-tweeted the post: \u201cEpic thread read til the end.\u201d He also posted about it on this Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Epic thread read til the end <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k3kNroNX00\">https:\/\/t.co\/k3kNroNX00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanCrenshawTX\/status\/1476932032332763156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Crenshaw was far from alone in offering an endorsement:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Epic thread <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lqnO0oNpgA\">https:\/\/t.co\/lqnO0oNpgA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimMurtaugh\/status\/1476930020954279945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p5hQBHWqAH\">https:\/\/t.co\/p5hQBHWqAH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rasmussen_Poll\/status\/1476946109314576386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great thread \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y2NCD6rK2E\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y2NCD6rK2E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gerry Callahan (@GerryCallahan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GerryCallahan\/status\/1476945514272800771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q35aJTCihf\">https:\/\/t.co\/Q35aJTCihf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtSchlichter\/status\/1476939256551522308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thread <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XqTGR3tj79\">https:\/\/t.co\/XqTGR3tj79<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1476926294365515783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro posted a lengthy thread to Twitter on Friday detailing what Democrats and their allies in the media are finally \u201cnow willing to admit\u201d about COVID-19. In the eight-tweet long thread, Shapiro listed ten truths that have been repeatedly denied by those on the Left, but have since been admitted, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"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-1175474","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\/1175474","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175474\/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=1175474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}