{"id":4986,"date":"2020-04-11T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetnl.org\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:40:42","slug":"the-unbearable-lightness-of-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2020\/04\/11\/the-unbearable-lightness-of-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"the unbearable lightness of masking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An interesting piece in Slate talking about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"why Americans are typically resistance to wearing masks in public (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2020\/04\/why-americans-resist-coronavirus-masks.html\" target=\"_blank\">why Americans are typically resistance to wearing masks in public<\/a>. Lots of baggage to be worked through, and easy to compare to Asian countries\/cultures where masks were commonplace even before Covid-19. The US is a vastly different cultural creature, with a broad spectrum of belief systems and values. Ignoring the differences and drivers while considering policy will be problematic on a lot of levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting piece in Slate talking about why Americans are typically resistance to wearing masks in public. Lots of baggage to be worked through, and easy to compare to Asian countries\/cultures where masks were commonplace even before Covid-19. The US is a vastly different cultural creature, with a broad spectrum of belief systems and values.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-narrative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6610,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/6610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}