{"id":6647,"date":"2025-09-06T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/covid-misinformation-bar-strangers-public-health-science\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:02:19","slug":"covid-misinformation-bar-strangers-public-health-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/covid-misinformation-bar-strangers-public-health-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here\u2019s what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here\u2019s what happened<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This essay was adapted from Jess Steier\u2019s newsletter, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theunbiasedscipod.substack.com\/\">Unbiased Science<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the last few weeks of summer, my mom visited from Florida. It was amazing, as it always is, to have her here spending time with the family doing lots of things and nothing at all. Going to the lake with the kids, playing board games, having hours of conversation, and taking endless trips down memory lane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/06\/covid-misinformation-bar-strangers-public-health-science\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Jess Steier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/06\/covid-misinformation-bar-strangers-public-health-science\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here\u2019s what happened This essay was adapted from Jess Steier\u2019s newsletter, \u201cUnbiased Science.\u201d For the last few weeks of summer, my mom visited from Florida. It was amazing, as it always is, to have her here spending time with the family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2267,2143,2180,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-first-opinion","category-public-health","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}