{"id":3246,"date":"2020-05-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2024-07-02T00:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T04:27:53","slug":"opinion-want-to-save-lives-and-the-economy-we-need-mandatory-masks-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/opinion-want-to-save-lives-and-the-economy-we-need-mandatory-masks-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Want to save lives and the economy? We need mandatory masks laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mandatory public masking has been saving lives and leading to an earlier (and safer) reopening of societies around the world. Despite this, Canadian officials have been reticent to support this cheap, effective measure.<\/p>\n<p>As of May&nbsp;12, 13&nbsp;U.S. states, including Illinois, New York and Massachusetts, and 84&nbsp;countries, including Israel, Germany, Austria, Czechia and France, have laws mandating public masking. And zero Canadian jurisdictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandatory public masking has been saving lives and leading to an earlier (and safer) reopening of societies around the world. Despite this, Canadian officials have been reticent to support this cheap, effective measure.<\/p>\n<p>As of May&nbsp;12, 13&nbsp;U.S. states, including Illinois, New York and Massachusetts, and 84&nbsp;countries, including Israel, Germany, Austria, Czechia and France, have laws mandating public masking. And zero Canadian jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/opinion-want-to-save-lives-and-the-economy-we-need-mandatory-masks-laws\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Opinion: Want to save lives and the economy? We need mandatory masks laws<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,19,97,14,143],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-masks","tag-pandemic-response","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6437,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/6437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}