{"id":13323,"date":"2022-09-12T05:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=13323"},"modified":"2022-09-12T05:01:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:01:32","slug":"the-mask-is-now-an-outward-symbol-of-the-paranoia-many-americans-have-been-conditioned-to-feel-about-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/the-mask-is-now-an-outward-symbol-of-the-paranoia-many-americans-have-been-conditioned-to-feel-about-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The mask is now an outward symbol of the paranoia many Americans have been conditioned to feel about COVID-19.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tom_Basile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tom_Basile<\/a>: &quot;The mask is now an outward symbol of the paranoia many Americans have been conditioned to feel about COVID-19.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m8kBWBt3bY\">pic.twitter.com\/m8kBWBt3bY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Newsmax (@newsmax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newsmax\/status\/1568624743607156737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/B3basileLGmaskingmentalheal_c0-1017-2200-2299_s885x516.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration on the mental health toll of wearing masks  and the COVID-19 pandemic by Linas Garsys\/The Washington Times\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/sep\/9\/masking-now-a-symbol-of-covid-19-pandemics-mental-\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/sep\/9\/masking-now-a-symbol-of-covid-19-pandemics-mental-\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/sep\/9\/masking-now-a-symbol-of-covid-19-pandemics-mental-\/ &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,23,4,53,39,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13325,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions\/13325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}