{"id":575167,"date":"2021-06-28T08:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575167"},"modified":"2021-06-28T08:20:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:20:44","slug":"this-is-liberal-q-anon-columnist-mocked-for-comparing-packed-restaurants-to-horror-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-liberal-q-anon-columnist-mocked-for-comparing-packed-restaurants-to-horror-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is Liberal Q Anon\u2019: Columnist Mocked For Comparing \u2018Packed Restaurants\u2019 To \u2018Horror Movie\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\">28<\/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%2Fthis-is-liberal-q-anon-columnist-mocked-for-comparing-packed-restaurants-to-horror-movie%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=575167&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wajahat-Ali.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Wajahat Ali, a columnist for The Daily Beast and senior fellow at the Western States Center, said that watching people, particularly children, walk around without masks reminded him of a \u201chorror movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comment sparked a cascade of mockery and criticism as COVID-19 vaccines are widely available. Ali said that \u201cpacked restaurants\u201d and people shopping made him feel as if he were in a \u201chorror movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel America has forgotten we\u2019re still in the middle of a pandemic that has killed more than 600,000 people, and there\u2019s a deadly Delta Plus strain, and our kids are still not vaccinated. Sigh,\u201d Ali tweeted Sunday. \u201cI see packed restaurants and people inside stores and malls and their kids aren\u2019t wearing masks. I feel I\u2019m in a horror movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3076923076923\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I see packed restaurants and people inside stores and malls and their kids aren&#8217;t wearing masks. I feel I&#8217;m in a horror movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WajahatAli\/status\/1409249330368811009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ricochet editor Bethany Mandel pointed out that children are not considered high-risk for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis daughter is incredibly high risk as a cancer survivor. But all of our kids are not high risk (thank God) and we need to let them get back to normal life. High risk children have always had to contend with ambient pathogens (flu etc) and our society can\u2019t totally cater to it,\u201d Mandel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bethanyshondark\/status\/1409348074711965699\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the measles outbreaks of the last few years I\u2019ve changed our grocery shopping and synagogue habits to leave home my babies too young for the MMR. The rest of the world isn\u2019t going to work around the needs of my infant, and that\u2019s okay,\u201d she continued. \u201cDuring flu and RSV season with young babies I\u2019m also more careful, especially considering it\u2019s more dangerous to kids\/babies than COVID. But we still live our lives and I never ever would expect everyone around me to mask for our benefit. It\u2019s not a reasonable request of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Margaret Olohan, a reporter for The Daily Caller News Foundation, pointed out the costs of maintaining strict lockdown measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn alternate horror movie: all of America continues to stay in their homes glued to Zoom, Netflix, and porn. No eye contact in the streets, everyone covers their faces with masks. Depression, loneliness reigns. Schools stay closed. Jobs lost. Businesses shuttered forever,\u201d Olohan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryMargOlohan\/status\/1409307014333927431\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Tim Dillon said Ali\u2019s tweet amounted to pushing conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the state of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is liberal Q Anon,\u201d Dillon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimJDillon\/status\/1409313197719310339\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ali later doubled-down on his comments and called his critics \u201cfreak merchants\u201d and accused them of attacking science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonored. Have all the freak merchants of the far right trolling me today because I\u2019m concerned that kids aren\u2019t vaccinated, there\u2019s still a pandemic going on, and people remain unvaxxed and don\u2019t wear masks inside packed restaurants because they are really tough and bada**!\u201d Ali <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WajahatAli\/status\/1409303574216122372\">said<\/a> in one follow-up tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve had the right-wing trolls come at me en masse. Not my first rodeo. All good. Y\u2019all enjoy attacking vaccines, science and masks and talking TOUGH about being MANLY men and without fear \u2026 as you try to ban critical race theory and the 1619 project,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WajahatAli\/status\/1409327300462665732\">added<\/a> in another.<\/p>\n<p>As vaccinations continue to increase and COVID-19 cases decline, states have lifted heavy lockdown restrictions. Some states such as Florida instituted light measures and removed them much sooner than other states without a measurably worse impact on residents from COVID-19. Even heavy lockdown states such as New York have lifted the bulk of their restrictions by now, however.<\/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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wajahat Ali, a columnist for The Daily Beast and senior fellow at the Western States Center, said that watching people, particularly children, walk around without masks reminded him of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281488,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wajahat-Ali.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018This Is Liberal Q Anon\u2019: Columnist Mocked For Comparing \u2018Packed Restaurants\u2019 To \u2018Horror Movie\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wajahat-Ali.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018This Is Liberal Q Anon\u2019: Columnist Mocked For Comparing \u2018Packed Restaurants\u2019 To \u2018Horror Movie\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575167","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=575167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}