{"id":64069,"date":"2022-08-01T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=64069"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T06:39:10","slug":"mask-wearing-is-so-easy-so-why-arent-we-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/01\/mask-wearing-is-so-easy-so-why-arent-we-doing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask wearing is so easy, so why aren\u2019t we doing it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on Twitter this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three weeks ago I decided I\u2019d take the risk of going to London for a meeting. I got Covid. Three weeks on I still feel utterly exhausted by it. My enthusiasm for going into a world where almost no one seems to care about passing on Covid is somewhat reduced. Please wear a mask.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardJMurphy\/status\/1553992017746829313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Having had Covid before I expected to feel ill, and did. This is much worse than whatever we usually call flu. But I had not expected the fatigue to continue as it has.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I have been working, but probably less than usual precisely because of this, so that is not the real explanation.<\/p>\n<p>That real explanation just seems to be that this thing can be vicious.<\/p>\n<p>My appeal to people is based on the simple fact that getting this is not fun, and very large numbers of people are doing so. So why aren\u2019t we trying to prevent that? It baffles me when mask wearing is so easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on Twitter this morning: Three weeks ago I decided I\u2019d take the risk of going to London for a meeting. I got<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/08\/01\/mask-wearing-is-so-easy-so-why-arent-we-doing-it\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}