{"id":7801,"date":"2025-01-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2025-01-07T21:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T02:55:02","slug":"masking-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masking-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Masking Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>COVID hasn\u2019t forgotten us<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\">Yes, I\u2019m still wearing a mask. And yes, it takes some courage. Any time I post images of myself in a mask on my Facebook page, the insults and jeers come thick and fast, mocking me for wearing \u201ca face diaper\u201d or for being too stupid to know that COVID is \u201cover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">I\u2019ve had strangers shout angry abuse at me as I walk through airports. But I think the most exasperating are the jokes and eyerolls from colleagues and family members, who seem to take my mask as a personal affront or insult. These friends and relations bug me\u2014jokingly, but incessantly\u2014to take it off, or tease me for what they perceive as my neurosis. I had one Senate colleague make fun of me for masking\u2014only to tell me, in his next breath, that he was just getting over his fourth case of COVID.<\/p>\n<footer>&mdash;&nbsp;Senator Paula Simons<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>COVID hasn\u2019t forgotten us<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\">Yes, I\u2019m still wearing a mask. And yes, it takes some courage. Any time I post images of myself in a mask on my Facebook page, the insults and jeers come thick and fast, mocking me for wearing \u201ca face diaper\u201d or for being too stupid to know that COVID is \u201cover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">I\u2019ve had strangers shout angry abuse at me as I walk through airports. But I think the most exasperating are the jokes and eyerolls from colleagues and family members, who seem to take my mask as a personal affront or insult. These friends and relations bug me\u2014jokingly, but incessantly\u2014to take it off, or tease me for what they perceive as my neurosis. I had one Senate colleague make fun of me for masking\u2014only to tell me, in his next breath, that he was just getting over his fourth case of COVID.<\/p>\n<footer>&mdash;&nbsp;Senator Paula Simons<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masking-fear\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masking Fear<\/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":[315,96,18,19,14],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-masks","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","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=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7807,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions\/7807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}