{"id":6868,"date":"2020-08-07T16:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2020-08-07T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:02:20","slug":"europes-top-health-officials-say-masks-arent-helpful-in-beating-covid-19-foundation-for-economic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/europes-top-health-officials-say-masks-arent-helpful-in-beating-covid-19-foundation-for-economic-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren&#8217;t Helpful in Beating COVID-19 &#8211; Foundation for Economic Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CovidMortallyRiskByAge_VS_WalkingDownTheStreet-300x257-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6652\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CovidMortallyRiskByAge_VS_WalkingDownTheStreet-300x257-1-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/europes-top-health-officials-say-masks-arent-helpful-in-beating-covid-19\/\">Europe&#8217;s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren&#8217;t Helpful in Beating COVID-19 &#8211; Foundation for Economic Education<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The top medical experts in the world can\u2019t decide if masks are helpful in reducing the spread of COVID-19 or just make things worse.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with mask mandates is that public health officials are not merely recommending a precaution that may or may not be effective.<\/p>\n<p>They are using force to make people submit to a state order that could ultimately make individuals or entire populations sicker, according to world-leading public health officials.<\/p>\n<p>That is not just a violation of the Effectiveness Principle. It\u2019s a violation of a basic personal freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Europe&#8217;s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren&#8217;t Helpful in Beating COVID-19 &#8211; Foundation for Economic Education The top medical experts in the world can\u2019t decide if masks are helpful in reducing the spread of COVID-19 or just make things worse. The problem with mask mandates is that public health officials are not merely recommending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/europes-top-health-officials-say-masks-arent-helpful-in-beating-covid-19-foundation-for-economic-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Europe&#8217;s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren&#8217;t Helpful in Beating COVID-19 &#8211; Foundation for Economic Education<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868"}],"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=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6870,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions\/6870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}