{"id":1458,"date":"2021-08-07T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T18:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2021-08-07T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T18:12:16","slug":"amid-soaring-infections-mask-and-vaccine-debates-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"Amid soaring infections, mask and vaccine debates continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">COVID prevention practices were a subject of debate among tourists and locals alike this past week in the French Quarter, where compliance with the new mask mandate appeared spotty at times. Visitors outside a voodoo-themed shop on Bourbon Street dutifully masked up Tuesday as they entered. And masks were being worn in T-shirt and souvenir shops. They were less evident at several bars and restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">In one dimly lit Bourbon Street haunt, musician Albert Ahlf, visiting from the New York City area, had a mask under his chin as he sipped a beer. He wasn\u2019t happy about masks being required for vaccinated people. \u201cI say it\u2019s the responsibility of the individual to get vaccinated and if they don\u2019t get vaccinated it\u2019s on them,\u201d said Ahlf. \u201cAt this point I think they\u2019re overdoing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-3c41b219cd5419056f4a626eef2ea2f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-3c41b219cd5419056f4a626eef2ea2f1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID prevention practices were a subject of debate among tourists and locals alike this past week in the French Quarter, where compliance with the new mask mandate appeared spotty at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-face-masks","category-news-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}