{"id":1447239,"date":"2022-04-20T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447239"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:15:22","slug":"alleged-economist-paul-krugman-predicts-violence-against-mask-wearers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-economist-paul-krugman-predicts-violence-against-mask-wearers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Economist Paul Krugman Predicts Violence Against Mask Wearers"},"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\">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%2Falleged-economist-paul-krugman-predicts-violence-against-mask-wearers%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=1447239&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yOTcwMDU3MS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTcxMTM5OTAwM30.HOpeeFf9VPsyFteuZmZE4QH7qSJc-NZOZbLKDK7WGbE\/img.jpg?width=1200&#038;coordinates=0%2C28%2C0%2C143&#038;height=600\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Paul Krugman is predicting that individuals who choose to wear face masks will be targeted with harassment and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Krugman&#8217;s comment on Tuesday came after a judge on Monday issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/federal-judge-throws-out-cdcs-public-transit-mask-mandate\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a> that slapped down the federal mandate which required people to mask up on public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A prediction about masking: Soon we&#8217;ll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom,&#8221; Krugman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulkrugman\/status\/1516424571439792146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"7127a\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"a9d1224b0db15cd325128021b302f6ec\">\n<div class=\"rm-embed-container rm-embed-twitter rm-loading\">\n            <span class=\"rm-embed-spacer rm-embed-spacer-mobile\"><\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"rm-embed-spacer rm-embed-spacer-desktop\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rm-embed-holder\">\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-custom-tweet\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"1516424571439792146\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\">\n<p>A prediction about masking: Soon we&#8217;ll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Paul Krugman (@Paul Krugman)<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulkrugman\/statuses\/1516424571439792146\">1650378766<\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many Americans oppose mask mandates and believe that people should have the individual liberty to decide whether or not to don a mask.<\/p>\n<p>BlazeTV host Dave Rubin of &#8220;The Rubin Report,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RubinReport\/status\/1516459903111798784\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a> to Krugman by posting clown emojis. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My view: It was very much about freedom,&#8221; Robby Soave, a senior editor of Reason, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbysoave\/status\/1516513309436039171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> in response to Krugman&#8217;s comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a lot of people (including me) just don&#8217;t want to be forced to wear masks in airports and on planes,&#8221; Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelRStrain\/status\/1516438456544731138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Kruta of the Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1516573459119235076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commented<\/a>: &#8220;More likely: if we even notice that someone else has chosen to wear a mask, the worst they&#8217;ll get from us as we go about our business is an eye-roll. This was always about personal risk assessment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preemptive outrage is a key subgenre of Liberal Fiction,&#8221; Caleb Howe of Mediaite <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebHowe\/status\/1516571424529522695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No-one cares about masks. They never did, never will. The issue was never the mask &#8211; it was being forced to wear one against your will. You want to wear a miniature pig as a mask? Go for it,&#8221; Ian Haworth of the Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\/status\/1516584984248782848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon said that he had already heard a story about someone getting hassled for not wearing a mask: &#8220;My editor @bethelmckenzie today told me she was verbally harassed for wearing a mask. It\u2019s already happening. And the harasser also just started ranting about CRT \u2026 presumably because she\u2019s Black,&#8221; Sassoon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alemzs\/status\/1516529676289728515\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice issued a statement on Tuesday indicating that it could potentially challenge the court decision related to the mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On April 13, 2022, before the district court\u2019s decision, CDC explained that the order would remain in effect while it assessed current public health conditions, and that the Transportation Security Administration would extend its directive implementing the order until May 3 to facilitate CDC\u2019s assessment,&#8221; spokesperson Anthony Coley noted in the statement. &#8220;If CDC concludes that a mandatory order remains necessary for the public\u2019s health after that assessment, the Department of Justice will appeal the district court\u2019s decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman is predicting that individuals who choose to wear face masks will be targeted with harassment and violence.Krugman&#8217;s comment on Tuesday came after a judge on Monday issued a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447239","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\/1447239","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447239\/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=1447239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}