{"id":1547668,"date":"2022-07-10T21:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T01:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1547668"},"modified":"2022-07-10T21:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T01:19:50","slug":"trump-surgeon-general-lectures-kid-who-lost-prom-graduation-and-more-to-covid-over-what-really-constitutes-a-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-surgeon-general-lectures-kid-who-lost-prom-graduation-and-more-to-covid-over-what-really-constitutes-a-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Surgeon General Lectures Kid Who Lost Prom, Graduation, And More To COVID Over What *Really* Constitutes A \u2018Lockdown\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\">38<\/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%2Ftrump-surgeon-general-lectures-kid-who-lost-prom-graduation-and-more-to-covid-over-what-really-constitutes-a-lockdown%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=1547668&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>Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams faced some serious backlash on Sunday over a tweet appearing to lecture a college student over what really constituted a \u201clockdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/trump-surgeon-general-suggests-fauci-got-covid-because-others-were-careless\/\">Adams<\/a> invoked imprisoned WNBA player <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/they-are-not-doing-anything-hoops-stars-wife-says-biden-has-not-responded-to-desperate-plea-from-russian-prison\/\">Brittney Griner<\/a> and his own brother \u2014 who was previously incarcerated \u2014 to suggest that the student was wrong to say that he had been locked down during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation began with a tweet from Adams, who criticized politicians who were running on a promise to never lock down their constituents again, saying they were offering little more than cheap campaign slogans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s IDK who needs to hear this: \u2018We will never lock down again,\u2019 is a political campaign slogan \u2014 not a real and honest discussion about pandemic policy,\u201d Adams tweeted. \u201cWe NEVER \u2018locked down\u2019 before (especially so in the places that most complain about it) so we can\u2019t do it \u2018again \u2026&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your position is, \u201cwith the knowledge and the tools we have gained we must do all we can to keep from closing schools,\u201d then I completely agree. Or perhaps \u2018we can utilize those same lessons and tools to help keep businesses open\u2019 \u2014 I also agree with this \u2014 so lets discuss!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If your position is, \u201cwith the knowledge and the tools we have gained we must do all we can to keep from closing schools,\u201d then I completely agree. <\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps \u201cwe can utilize those same lessons and tools to help keep businesses open\u201d-<br \/>I also agree with this- so lets discuss!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeromeAdamsMD\/status\/1546107992713617409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPandemic hyperbole is as rampant and deadly as Covid19. If we want to have sincere and honest conversations about policy, we\u2019ve got to be sincere and honest ourselves. Starting w\/ acknowledging we never truly locked down, yet we must do all we can to keep open in the future,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeromeAdamsMD\/status\/1546107993577721857\">continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A college student named Ryan responded, disputing Adams\u2019 claim that he had never been locked down and pointing out just a few of the things that COVID restrictions had taken from him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who lived in lockdown hell in MN for 2 years, I lost 1) my high school graduation 2) my prom 3) my first year of college 4) social interaction. Public health locked me in my bedroom along with many other kids. If that doesn\u2019t constitute lockdown, I don\u2019t know what does,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As someone who lived in lockdown hell in MN for 2 years, I lost 1) my high school graduation 2) my prom 3) my first year of college 4) social interaction. Public health locked me in my bedroom along with many other kids. If that doesn\u2019t constitute lockdown, I don\u2019t know what does<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan (@ryanciminski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanciminski\/status\/1546179266815180801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adams fired back, however, saying, \u201cI appreciate what you went through (I have 3 school age kids who went through the same). I respectfully would suggest people like Brittany Griner, or my brother (who actually WAS in prison in 2020) would argue that there are different degrees of \u2018lockdown hell.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I appreciate what you went through (I have 3 school age kids who went through the same). I respectfully would suggest people like Brittany Griner, or my brother (who actually WAS in prison in 2020) would argue that there are different degrees of \u201clockdown hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeromeAdamsMD\/status\/1546215169210056704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former surgeon general was then flooded with responses \u2014 a number of whom pointed out that the two people Adams had mentioned had been imprisoned because of their own actions rather than because the government had put them there \u201cfor their own protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere you literally in a Russian prison during the Covid pandemic? No? Then shut up,\u201d David Marcus tweeted, mocking Adams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know there are other uses of Twitter besides destroying your own credibility,\u201d Grabien founder Tom Elliott <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1546221772789485569\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams faced some serious backlash on Sunday over a tweet appearing to lecture a college student over what really constituted a \u201clockdown.\u201d Adams invoked imprisoned WNBA player Brittney Griner and his own brother \u2014 who was previously incarcerated \u2014 to suggest that the student was wrong to say that he had &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1547708,"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-1547668","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\/1547668","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}