{"id":280359,"date":"2021-08-19T08:47:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=211956"},"modified":"2021-08-19T08:47:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:47:06","slug":"anti-vaxxers-and-the-unvaccinated-false-consciousness-in-a-time-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/19\/anti-vaxxers-and-the-unvaccinated-false-consciousness-in-a-time-of-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Vaxxers and the Unvaccinated: False Consciousness in a Time of Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early August 2021, two rightwing politicians came out against Covid-19 vaccinations.\u00a0 On Fox News, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claimed that masks were not effective in preventing the spread of Covid.\u00a0 \u201cThe more [mask] mandates we got, the more disease we got,\u201d he insisted. \u201cNow, I don\u2019t think the mark caused the disease, but I  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/19\/anti-vaxxers-and-the-unvaccinated-false-consciousness-in-a-time-of-pandemic\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/19\/anti-vaxxers-and-the-unvaccinated-false-consciousness-in-a-time-of-pandemic\/\">Anti-Vaxxers and the Unvaccinated: False Consciousness in a Time of Pandemic<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/19\/anti-vaxxers-and-the-unvaccinated-false-consciousness-in-a-time-of-pandemic\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early August 2021, two rightwing politicians came out against Covid-19 vaccinations.\u00a0 On Fox News, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claimed that masks were not effective in preventing the spread of Covid.\u00a0 \u201cThe more [mask] mandates we got, the more disease we &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280522,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280359\/revisions\/280522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}