{"id":2009911,"date":"2023-08-23T19:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T23:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-johnson-lashes-out-at-return-of-mask-and-vaccine-mandates-alarming\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T19:44:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T23:44:43","slug":"ron-johnson-lashes-out-at-return-of-mask-and-vaccine-mandates-alarming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-johnson-lashes-out-at-return-of-mask-and-vaccine-mandates-alarming\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Johnson criticizes reinstatement of mask and vaccine mandates, deeming it &#8220;alarming.&#8221;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fron-johnson-lashes-out-at-return-of-mask-and-vaccine-mandates-alarming%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=2009911&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--><h2>MILWAUKEE \u2014 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Slams Return \u2062of \u2064Mask and Vaccine Mandates<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to \u2063Moms for \u2063Liberty ahead of the Republican\u2064 presidential\u200b debate, Sen. Ron Johnson expressed his deep concern\u200c over the reinstatement of mask and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-lawmaker-moves-to-rename-highway-after-president-donald-j-trump\/\" title=\"Florida Lawmaker Moves to Rename Highway After President Donald J. Trump\">vaccine mandates<\/a>, describing them as &#8220;alarming.&#8221; He vowed to\u2062 continue fighting against these measures, which he believes to be\u200d ineffective.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch the Republican Debate and Know the Start Time<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like, OK, we noticed masks didn&#8217;t work, particularly for children. We always knew they didn&#8217;t \u200bwork for\u200c kids,&#8221; Johnson stated, \u2063highlighting his skepticism towards the effectiveness of \u2063masks.\u200b He further criticized the mandates by pointing out\u200b that \u200bMorris Brown \u200bCollege in Atlanta has reinstated a mask mandate, while Rutgers University in New Jersey \u200cenforces both a vaccine and mask mandate, despite the passage of almost four years since the first COVID-19 case emerged\u2062 in\u200b China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While masks might\u200c have some marginal impact, we can&#8217;t deny\u200d that \u2063fact,&#8221; Johnson acknowledged. &#8220;N-95 masks can provide some \u200bmarginal\u2062 benefits, but we should not deny people\u200c their freedom in the \u2062process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has\u200c been a \u200cvocal opponent of\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dave-rubin-blasts-twitter-for-locking-his-account-over-misleading-covid-19-tweet\/\" title=\"Dave Rubin Blasts Twitter for Locking His Account Over \u2018Misleading\u2019 COVID-19 Tweet\">federal vaccine mandate<\/a> and has advocated for individuals\u200d who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abortion-harms-fathers-too\/\" title=\"Abortion Harms Fathers Too\">experienced adverse effects<\/a> \u200bfrom \u200dCOVID-19 vaccines. He \u2064believes that these positions played a significant\u200c role in \u200chis successful reelection\u200d last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin senator has also called on the Biden \u2063administration \u2064to \u2063acknowledge the failure of its pandemic policies.<\/p>\n<p>While Johnson commended the work of individual doctors, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abc-political-director-rick-klein-calls-for-cleansing-pro-trump-movement\/\" title=\"ABC Political Director Rick Klein calls for \u2018cleansing\u2019 pro-Trump movement\">expressed concern<\/a> about the \u2064influence of the pharmaceutical industry on society as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is\u2064 the capture \u200bof not only our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-dodges-question-on-teachers-safely-returning-back-to-schools\/\" title=\"Harris dodges question on teachers safely returning back to schools\">federal health agencies<\/a> but also media, both\u2063 social media and mainstream media, by Big\u200d Pharma,&#8221; he warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to\u200d read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) finds the return of mask and vaccine mandates &#8220;alarming.&#8221; He spoke to Moms for Liberty before the Republican debate, criticizing the mandates as ineffective and vowing to keep opposing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009911","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}