{"id":3163,"date":"2020-08-01T17:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T17:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2020-08-01T17:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T17:46:02","slug":"why-masks-are-still-politicized-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"Why masks are (still) politicized in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;when people like Trump don\u2019t wear masks and make wearing masks a political issue, their supporters are less likely to wear them. When the president says people wear masks as a way of showing their disapproval of him, \u201cthat\u2019s a pretty clear signal, not just that he\u2019s not modeling responsible behavior, but that he views it as a sign of disloyalty,\u201d Wiley said. \u201cThat does definitely further politicize the decision to wear a mask or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The effects of this politicization can be seen in recent polling on mask use. In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2020\/06\/23\/most-americans-say-they-regularly-wore-a-mask-in-stores-in-the-past-month-fewer-see-others-doing-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pew poll<\/a>&nbsp;conducted June 4 to 10, 76 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters said they wear a mask in stores all or most of the time. Just 53 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters said the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/21\/21331310\/mask-masks-trump-covid19-rule-georgia-alabama\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/21\/21331310\/mask-masks-trump-covid19-rule-georgia-alabama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;when people like Trump don\u2019t wear masks and make wearing masks a political issue, their supporters are less likely to wear them. When the president says people wear masks as a way of showing their disapproval of him, \u201cthat\u2019s a pretty clear signal, not just that he\u2019s not modeling responsible behavior, but that he views it as a sign of disloyalty,\u201d Wiley said. \u201cThat does definitely further politicize the decision to wear a mask or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The effects of this politicization can be seen in recent polling on mask use. In a Pew poll conducted June 4 to 10, 76 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters said they wear a mask in stores all or most of the time. Just 53 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters said the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}