{"id":2483,"date":"2020-07-15T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2020-07-15T10:11:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:11:35","slug":"masking-hysteria-has-passed-the-point-of-not-being-a-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/15\/masking-hysteria-has-passed-the-point-of-not-being-a-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Masking hysteria has passed the point of not being a mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Colorado Governor Jared Polis decided to up the hysteria by calling state residents who don\u2019t wear masks,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/colorado-governor-calls-anti-maskers-selfish-bastards-extends-covid-orders-1517401\">\u201cselfish bastards.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On Sunday, Polis posted on his campaign&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PolisForColorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook account<\/a>&nbsp;to remind Colorado residents that scientific studies supported the use of face coverings and face masks in public places to help reduce the spread of the virus, adding: \u201cSo if you\u2019re a selfish bastard and wearing a mask to protect others isn\u2019t enough of reason to do so, then maybe protecting yourself is?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hiking the other day. <br><br>70\u00b0 and gorgeous. <br><br>It\u2019s uncrowded.<br><br>We go off the path so woman approaching has more room.<br> <br>She stops, huffs, makes a show of putting on her mask. Pretends to labor over the act.<br><br>Then lectures us on not wearing masks. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaskNutter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MaskNutter<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Victoria Taft (@VictoriaTaft) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictoriaTaft\/status\/1282751741436420096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Governor Jared Polis decided to up the hysteria by calling state residents who don\u2019t wear masks,&nbsp;\u201cselfish bastards.\u201d On Sunday, Polis posted on his campaign&nbsp;Facebook account&nbsp;to remind Colorado residents that scientific studies supported the use of face coverings and face masks in public places to help reduce the spread of the virus, adding: \u201cSo if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}