{"id":7209,"date":"2021-05-10T20:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2021-05-10T20:42:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:42:05","slug":"wear-a-mask-wheres-your-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2021\/05\/10\/wear-a-mask-wheres-your-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Wear a mask. Where\u2019s your respect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p><em>Photo provided by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@devasangbam?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Dev Asangbam<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/mask?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Alexandra Gonzalez \u201923, staff writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I will remember the most about COVID-19 will not be what the specific recommendations were by the CDC, or who contracted the virus, or what my symptoms were after getting the vaccine. Instead, what I will remember the most will be how people reacted to the pandemic and the way in which they treated the people around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America is the land of the individual. People tend to do what is best for themselves, even at the expense of others. And in a public health crisis, I have not seen much change. The politicization of the pandemic has only made matters worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When people say, \u201cYou don\u2019t need to wear a mask for me,\u201d I wish I could ask if the same is true for the elderly or immunocompromised person that gets groceries at the same outlet as them. I wish I could ask the other people that they live with, work with, worship with, among other things, if they would want me to wear a mask for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People and institutions have decided that they are just \u201cover\u201d the pandemic, but that does not make the number of COVID-19 cases or fatalities any lower or make the lasting effects of these cases any less severe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, their decisions do directly impact those who are forced to come in contact with them. These people and institutions have made events and services inaccessible to those who are uncomfortable with living in the same manner as they were pre-pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this past year, I have seen family members pit against each other. I have seen people who call themselves Christians make public spectacles of those wearing masks. And I have seen people die as a consequence of their own and\/or others\u2019 decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These will be the things that I remember about COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>What I will remember the most about COVID-19 will not be what the specific recommendations were by the CDC, or who contracted the virus, or what my symptoms were after getting the vaccine. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2021\/05\/10\/wear-a-mask-wheres-your-respect\/\" title=\"Wear a mask. Where\u2019s your respect?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,20,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-7209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-covid-19","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-letters-to-editor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}