{"id":42483,"date":"2020-04-29T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42483"},"modified":"2020-04-29T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T01:29:08","slug":"pence-flouts-mayo-mask-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42483","title":{"rendered":"Pence flouts Mayo mask policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23VPOTUS%20%23MikePence%20%23maskpolicy&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB13kuI5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42484\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB13kuI5-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB13kuI5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB13kuI5-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB13kuI5.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, man. I had hoped Mike Pence would be above flouting a policy enacted by a major medical center. Silly me. The vice president is more like the president than I had thought.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has enacted a policy that declares everyone in the place wears a mask. Pence visited the clinic today and was the only individual photographed who wasn&#8217;t wearing a mask to protect him against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, Mr. Vice President \u2026 what in the name of disease prevention is wrong with you? Mayo officials even said they would provide Pence with a mask.<\/p>\n<p>Pence knew of the policy. He chose to parade around the joint without a mask. There he was, following the lead of Donald Trump, who declared that mask-wearing was a suggestion, but that he would forgo wearing a mask while working in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s leadership? That&#8217;s how you demonstrate to the nation that you are willing to do what health officials are asking the rest of us to do? Of course not!<\/p>\n<p>It is an act of stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, I thought Vice President Pence was smarter than that.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23VPOTUS%20%23MikePence%20%23maskpolicy&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, man. I had hoped Mike Pence would be above flouting a policy enacted by a major medical center. Silly me. The vice president is more like the president than I had thought. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has enacted a policy that declares everyone in the place wears a mask. 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