{"id":49125,"date":"2014-11-14T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49125"},"modified":"2014-11-14T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:08:35","slug":"as-stupid-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49125","title":{"rendered":"As Stupid Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A barrel full of a nauseating-looking stew of what looks like sputum, blood and pus appears on the Nicollet Mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Behind it is a large sign, set off by bright, blinking lights:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BARREL MIGHT CONTAIN<br \/>\nHIGH CONCENTRATION OF<br \/>\nEBOLA VIRUS!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Exposure Could Very Possibly<br \/>\nbe Fatal!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If true, do not Lick, Drink,<br \/>\nRub on Skin or Smear on Face!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Also, it might not.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll have to<br \/>\nlick, drink or smear it on you<br \/>\nto find out what&#8217;s in the barrel)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let&#8217;s assume there are three groups of people walking past this barrel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Epidemiologists, Virologists, and other people with the medical and science background to know what a &#8220;Barrel full of Ebola virus&#8221; means &#8211; figure maybe 1\/1,000 of the passing audience<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">People who without medical or scientific training, but who think the idea of licking, drinking, or rubbing a concoction rich in Ebola viruses on their face is a bad idea, and refrain from doing so<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/healthcare\/november_2014\/32_think_americans_are_too_stupid_to_understand_obamacare\">People <\/a>who say &#8220;Yes, We Can!&#8221;, and lick, smear their faces with, or guzzle a pint of the concoction.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Question:\u00a0Of the three groups above, who are the stupid ones?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just curious. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A barrel full of a nauseating-looking stew of what looks like sputum, blood and pus appears on the Nicollet Mall.\u00a0 Behind it is a large sign, set off by bright, blinking lights:\u00a0 BARREL MIGHT CONTAIN HIGH CONCENTRATION OF EBOLA VIRUS! Exposure Could Very Possibly be Fatal! If true, do not Lick, Drink, Rub on Skin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-49125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-ebola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49128,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49125\/revisions\/49128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}