{"id":808048,"date":"2020-06-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=384367"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:00:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-masks-are-unnecessary-while-exercising-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-masks-are-unnecessary-while-exercising-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Masks are unnecessary while exercising outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my fellow bike path users: I ride our local bike path daily. Approximately 1 in 4 of you are wearing face masks while riding. As a physician, observing the evolution of this pandemic, it is my opinion that \u2014 barring respiratory symptoms like fever, cough or sneezing \u2014 it is 100% unnecessary to wear a mask when outside. On the other hand, rebreathing your own carbon dioxide, especially when exercising, is definitely harmful to your health.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-masks-are-unnecessary-while-exercising-outdoors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my fellow bike path users: I ride our local bike path daily. Approximately 1 in 4 of you are wearing face masks while riding. As a physician, observing the evolution of this pandemic, it is my opinion that \u2014 barring respiratory symptoms like fever, cough or sneezing \u2014 it is 100% unnecessary to wear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 11:08:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}