{"id":999233,"date":"2021-11-11T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T19:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=999233"},"modified":"2021-11-11T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T19:58:45","slug":"gene-simmons-lashes-out-at-unvaccinated-you-are-an-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gene-simmons-lashes-out-at-unvaccinated-you-are-an-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons Lashes Out at Unvaccinated: &#039;You Are an Enemy&#039;"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fgene-simmons-lashes-out-at-unvaccinated-you-are-an-enemy%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=999233&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\/11\/AP_21295527593078-crop-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">KISS frontman Gene Simmons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2021\/11\/11\/gene-simmons-covid-19-unvaccinated-enemy-politics\/\">took aim<\/a> at unvaccinated people during a recent interview, referring to them as \u201cthe enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy,\u201d Simmons, 72, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/in-the-know\/581147-gene-simmons-rips-anti-vaxxers-if-youre-willing-to-walk-among\">declared<\/a> in a Wednesday interview with <em>TalkShopLive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have the right to go through a red light \u2014 actually the government has the right to tell you to stop,\u201d&nbsp;the longtime rocker continued.&nbsp;\u201cIf they tell you you can\u2019t smoke in a building, you can\u2019t smoke in a building. And that\u2019s not because they want to take away your rights \u2014 that\u2019s because the rest of us hate it. We don\u2019t want to smell your smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to catch your disease,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t want to risk my life just because you want to go through a red light. This whole idea, this delusional, evil idea that you get to do whatever you want and the rest of the world be damned is really terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simmons then slammed both political parties \u2014 Democrats and Republicans \u2014 for what disseminating \u201call kinds of nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like either one of them. Politics are the enemy. Humanism and humanity is what we should all be concerned about. Love thy neighbor as thyself,\u201d he stated.&nbsp;\u201cFor God\u2019s sakes, if I\u2019m going to yawn in your presence, I\u2019m going to put my hand up in front of my mouth. Yawning is not a life-threatening event. You having COVID might be a life-threatening event, and I don\u2019t want to catch it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KISS was recently forced to postpone multiple concerts after Simmons and guitarist&nbsp;Paul Stanley&nbsp;contracted the coronavirus and band guitar tech Francis Stueber died due to complications from the illness on October 17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/music\/news\/kiss-cancel-las-vegas-residency-1235101954\/\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11.181818181818\">\n<p>A recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kiss-francis-stueber-covid-tour-protocols-death-1249590\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolling Stone article<\/a>&nbsp;sharply criticized the band\u2019s pandemic-safety protocols during the U.S. tour, with three crew members, speaking anonymously, said the band \u201cdidn\u2019t take strict enough safety measures, which they say sickened several tour workers and potentially cost Stueber his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur \u2018End of the Road\u2019 world tour absolutely had Covid safety protocols in place that met, but most often exceeded, federal, state, and local guidelines. But ultimately this is still a global pandemic and there is simply no foolproof way to tour without some element of risk,\u201d&nbsp;the band said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISS frontman Gene Simmons took aim at unvaccinated people during a recent interview, referring to them as \u201cthe enemy.\u201d \u201cIf you\u2019re willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"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-999233","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\/999233","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999233\/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=999233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}