{"id":73480,"date":"2020-03-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73480"},"modified":"2020-03-03T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:59:57","slug":"73480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73480","title":{"rendered":"The Narrative Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There&#8217;s a reason Facebook and Amazon use algorithms to determine people&#8217;s reactions. Because people&#8217;s reactions are predictable.<br>There has been a constant drumbeat of Coronavirus fear mongering in the media, so today CVS and Walgreens are reporting a shortage of hand sanitizer and toilet paper. Panic buying.<br>Next up: allegations of price gouging,\u00a0 attorney general investigations, legislators posturing, and media articles claiming the hardest hit are women, children, minorities, illegal immigrants, and LGBTQ+.<br>And it will be your fault, you wicked\u00a0 evil, privileged white man.<br>Can&#8217;t wait.<br>Joe Doakes\u00a0<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s not <em>wrong<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a reason Facebook and Amazon use algorithms to determine people&#8217;s reactions. Because people&#8217;s reactions are predictable.There has been a constant drumbeat of Coronavirus fear mongering in the media, so today CVS and Walgreens are reporting a shortage of hand sanitizer and toilet paper. Panic buying.Next up: allegations of price gouging,\u00a0 attorney general investigations, legislators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480","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=73480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73483,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73480\/revisions\/73483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}