{"id":49115,"date":"2021-09-02T23:10:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49115"},"modified":"2021-09-02T23:10:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:10:27","slug":"seat-belts-stop-lights-and-now-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49115","title":{"rendered":"Seat belts, stop lights and now masks"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/AdobeStock_396258889.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45771\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/AdobeStock_396258889-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/AdobeStock_396258889-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/AdobeStock_396258889-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/AdobeStock_396258889.jpeg 771w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Government makes us do all kinds of things that some of us would rather not do.<\/p>\n<p>It makes us wear seat belts while driving or riding in a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>We stop at red lights that signal us to stop &#8230; at least most of us do it.<\/p>\n<p>We obey orders not to smoke cigarettes, cigars or pipes indoors.<\/p>\n<p>Now the government at some levels wants us to wear masks when we enter enclosed spaces. Why? To protect us against a killer virus, the COVID 19 and its variants.<\/p>\n<p>What in the name of sanity is wrong with following that order, too?<\/p>\n<p>To me, there&#8217;s <em>nothing<\/em> wrong with it. Do I like donning a mask, fishing for it out of some compartment in my vehicle? No. I don&#8217;t &#8230; but I do it anyway!<\/p>\n<p>Wear a damn mask! It will save your life and could save the lives of those around you &#8230; including those you love dearly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Government makes us do all kinds of things that some of us would rather not do. It makes us wear seat belts while driving or riding in a motor vehicle. We stop at red lights that signal us to stop &#8230; at least most of us do it. We obey orders not to smoke cigarettes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seat belts, stop lights and now masks<\/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":[13],"tags":[9423,9636,9261],"class_list":["post-49115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-covid","tag-mask-wearing","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49115","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=49115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49116,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49115\/revisions\/49116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}