Last week I attended an in-person conference in New York City. Almost none of the attendees wore masks, but all the help did — the food service people, etc. <\/p>\n
Nancy Pelosi has once again been seen in a crowd not wearing a mask. (See Hobnobbing with the rich and famous, maskless, is the new face of the Democratic Party<\/a>.) <\/p>\n \u201cWhy is Nancy Pelosi allowed to attend a lavish billionaire\u2019s wedding in California without a mask while our school children are forced to mask up? Is it only the servant class who is forced to wear masks?\u201d asked one tweet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Obama famously partied with friends for his 60th birthday, and nobody wore a mask. <\/p>\n Rules are for the little people, of course, but I’m starting to wonder if masks are taking on a strange dual role as both virtue signal and class marker. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I attended an in-person conference in New York City. Almost none of the attendees wore masks, but all the help did — the food service people, etc. Nancy Pelosi has once again been seen in a crowd not wearing a mask. (See Hobnobbing with the rich and famous, maskless, is the new face … Continue reading “Masks as a class symbol?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}