{"id":10226,"date":"2021-04-26T13:35:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=10226"},"modified":"2021-04-26T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:37:09","slug":"wearing-masks-would-have-been-the-responsible-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/04\/26\/wearing-masks-would-have-been-the-responsible-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearing masks would have been the responsible choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gov.-DeSantis-signing-the-Anti-Riot-Bill-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10227\" width=\"302\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gov.-DeSantis-signing-the-Anti-Riot-Bill-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gov.-DeSantis-signing-the-Anti-Riot-Bill-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gov.-DeSantis-signing-the-Anti-Riot-Bill-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gov.-DeSantis-signing-the-Anti-Riot-Bill-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gov.-DeSantis-signing-the-Anti-Riot-Bill.jpg 1600w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I noted in The Ledger&#8217;s picture of Gov. DeSantis&#8217; signing the Anti-Riot Bill in Winter Haven that neither he nor a single one of the two dozen plus officials in attendance was wearing a mask [&#8220;DeSantis signs sweeping, controversial anti-riot bill,&#8221; April 20]. These officials were standing shoulder-to-shoulder indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even in the unlikely case that all had already been vaccinated against COVID-19, I am disappointed that our leaders did not follow CDC guidelines. Especially when viral variants that may be partially resistant to vaccines are circulating, I would have hoped for more responsible behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Robert Chapman, M.D., Lakeland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted in The Ledger&#8217;s picture of Gov. DeSantis&#8217; signing the Anti-Riot Bill in Winter Haven that neither he nor a single one of the two dozen plus officials in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}