{"id":190,"date":"2021-05-08T19:45:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T00:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=190"},"modified":"2023-07-25T21:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:08:38","slug":"masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/08\/masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">One of the ways to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus is to wear a mask over the nose and mouth.&nbsp; For some reason, this has resulted in many people losing their shit and in many cases becoming violent.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t get it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">We may be skeptical about whether masks really help to avoid spreading COVID-19.\u00a0 That&#8217;s understandable.\u00a0 COVID-19 is a brand-new disease, and there&#8217;s still a lot we don&#8217;t know.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"> <\/span>But we&#8217;ve seen that the cases of flu and the common cold have dropped since people started wearing masks.\u00a0 That should tell us something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I get that people don&#8217;t like wearing a mask&nbsp; It&#8217;s inconvenient, uncomfortable, and can sometimes feel as though you&#8217;re not getting enough air.&nbsp; But as someone pointed out, being on a ventilator is a lot worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">COVID is real.&nbsp; Masks help.&nbsp; Vaccinations can be effective, and no one is injecting electronic trackers into you.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve got a phone, they can already track you.&nbsp; Just put on the fucking mask and quit pretending that you have a God-given right to act like a dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ways to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus is to wear a mask over the nose and mouth.&nbsp; For some reason, this has resulted in many people losing their shit and in many cases becoming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/08\/masks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}