{"id":4630,"date":"2020-10-12T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2020-10-12T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T02:30:08","slug":"fascinating-richmond-b-c-chief-medical-officer-opposes-forced-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4630","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating: Richmond B.C. Chief Medical Officer Opposes Forced Masking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/END-THE-LOCKDOWN-RALLY-TORONTO-JUNE-13-MASKS-DONT-WORK-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/END-THE-LOCKDOWN-RALLY-TORONTO-JUNE-13-MASKS-DONT-WORK-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/END-THE-LOCKDOWN-RALLY-TORONTO-JUNE-13-MASKS-DONT-WORK-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/END-THE-LOCKDOWN-RALLY-TORONTO-JUNE-13-MASKS-DONT-WORK-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/END-THE-LOCKDOWN-RALLY-TORONTO-JUNE-13-MASKS-DONT-WORK-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fascinating: Richmond B.C. Chief Medical Officer Opposes Forced Masking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8220;Richmond\u2019s medical health officer Dr. Meena Dawar provided input to the  city in the form of a letter, and indicated she favoured other  precautions over mandating masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\t\u201cThere is little justification for a mandatory mask policy and I \nrecommend that it not be pursued,\u201d Dr. Dawar wrote, and added buying \nmasks could create \u201cadditional financial costs for already stretched \nhouseholds,\u201d as well as create potential barriers for people who cannot \nwear masks due to certain medical conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cIn the hierarchy of measures public health has recommended to prevent  transmission since the beginning of the pandemic, non-medical mask  wearing is one of the lowest,\u201d Dawar wrote.&#8221; &#8212; CTV News, October 7, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating: Richmond B.C. Chief Medical Officer Opposes Forced Masking &#8220;Richmond\u2019s medical health officer Dr. Meena Dawar provided input to the city in the form of a letter, and indicated she favoured other precautions over mandating masks. \u201cThere is little justification &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4630\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2461,2462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}