{"id":47968,"date":"2021-05-10T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47968"},"modified":"2021-05-10T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:41:09","slug":"thanks-doc-ill-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47968","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, doc; I&#8217;ll wait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43672\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-1-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-1-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-1.jpg 1021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci says that increased vaccination rates mean that we can move around indoors with relaxed mask and social-distancing requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I gotta say it: No thanks, doc. I&#8217;m going to keep wearing my mask and keeping my distance from strangers until we get the &#8220;all clear!&#8221; from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and, well, from you.<\/p>\n<p>I get that we want to return to normal life as we knew the meaning of the term. However, I am going to keep my mask handy, ready to slip on when I go to indoor locations populated by complete strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fauci is President Biden&#8217;s senior medical adviser. He is a brilliant epidemiologist, the leading national and arguably the top <em>worldwide<\/em> expert on infectious disease. If he says it&#8217;s OK for businesses and local governments to relax their precautions, I&#8217;ll accept that.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am not going to take the bait just yet.<\/p>\n<p>We have a ways to go before we can declare the COVID virus a goner. Until we do that, I&#8217;ll keep wearing my mask.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; thanks for the words of encouragement.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Dr. Anthony Fauci says that increased vaccination rates mean that we can move around indoors with relaxed mask and social-distancing requirements. Well, I gotta say it: No thanks, doc. I&#8217;m going to keep wearing my mask and keeping my distance from strangers until we get the &#8220;all clear!&#8221; from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanks, doc; I&#8217;ll wait<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[891,9423,9703,9568,9261],"class_list":["post-47968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-cdc","tag-covid","tag-dr-fauci","tag-fda","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47969,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47968\/revisions\/47969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}