{"id":8137,"date":"2020-06-27T20:39:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:39:29","slug":"judge-branick-writes-letter-to-citizens-explaining-mask-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8137","title":{"rendered":"Judge Branick writes letter to citizens explaining mask order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfdm.com\/news\/local\/judge-branick-writes-letter-to-citizens-explaining-mask-order\">Judge Branick<\/a>?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eighty years ago, the greatest generation planted victory gardens, collected tin, rubber and steel, had food ration books and endured black outs, all to support the war effort. Their sacrifices were significantly more weighty than the inconvenience the present order requires. I want to thank a fellow county judge for reminding me of this. Today, a small minority is screaming that this is some kind of communist plot to overthrow the nation. When did it happen that we all became so focused on our rights and not our obligations to our fellow man and woman? Jesus said \u201cGreater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends\u201d. I\u2019m not directing anyone to lay down their life. Galatians 6:2 says \u201cCarry each other\u2019s burdens and in this way you will fulfill the Law of Christ\u201d. I love you, because that is what Christ teaches us to do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I wear a mask not because I am afraid but because it is one way of showing that I care about my neighbors. There is a lot we don\u2019t know about COVID-19 but all the evidence suggests that wearing a mask helps to prevent the spread of the virus. If wearing a mask prevents one person from dying, then isn\u2019t it worth the minor inconvenience? If wearing a mask helps us get our country and economy back to normal, then isn\u2019t it our patriotic duty to do so?\u201d I received this in an email from an Orange County resident. It is a note he keeps in his pocket which he gives to people who make snide remarks about his wearing a mask in stores.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Branick?: Eighty years ago, the greatest generation planted victory gardens, collected tin, rubber and steel, had food ration books and endured black outs, all to support the war effort. Their sacrifices were significantly more weighty than the inconvenience the present order requires. I want to thank a fellow county judge for reminding me of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}