{"id":73662,"date":"2020-03-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73662"},"modified":"2020-03-24T15:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:48:35","slug":"correlations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73662","title":{"rendered":"Correlations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This popped up on Twitter the other day.  It&#8217;s from &#8220;Rick Wilson&#8221;, who lists himself as an &#8220;apostate GOP media guy&#8221;, which means he&#8217;s a pretty over the top Never-Trumper.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"711\" height=\"528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wilson-Tweet.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73664\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wilson-Tweet.png 711w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wilson-Tweet-300x223.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wilson-Tweet-404x300.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Comeuppance was delivered fast and hot.   Wilson pretty well doggoned it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wilson-Heat-Map.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73666\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wilson-Heat-Map.png 702w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wilson-Heat-Map-300x177.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Wilson-Heat-Map-500x296.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What are we looking at, here?:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A heat map of people who sniff down their noses at Fox News?<\/li><li>An overlay of Covid deaths at this point?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer:  Why choose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect it&#8217;s really more a matter of population density than intellectual density &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73640\">densely-packed, transit-dependent people<\/a> have always been more susceptible, at least initially, to pandemics (and they also develop immunity faster).  Nobody knows what that map&#8217;ll look like in a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing we know for sure? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rick Wilson is going to have a hard time earning a living from seriousl people. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This popped up on Twitter the other day. It&#8217;s from &#8220;Rick Wilson&#8221;, who lists himself as an &#8220;apostate GOP media guy&#8221;, which means he&#8217;s a pretty over the top Never-Trumper. Comeuppance was delivered fast and hot. Wilson pretty well doggoned it: What are we looking at, here?: A heat map of people who sniff down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73662","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=73662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73668,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73662\/revisions\/73668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}