{"id":73703,"date":"2020-03-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73703"},"modified":"2020-03-29T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T13:03:00","slug":"the-scarlet-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73703","title":{"rendered":"The Scarlet Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Physical therapy this morning, the receptionist wanted to know if I had come into contact with anyone who is confirmed by medical testing to have coronavirus.<\/p><p>How would I know? Do they wear a big C on their chest?<\/p><p>You don&#8217;t have Corona virus unless you&#8217;re tested for it. You can&#8217;t get tested for it unless you come into contact with someone else who already has been tested for it. I may be infected but without that link, no test for me.<\/p><p>I distrust the official numbers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve long since switched to counting deaths.  They&#8217;re harder to hide.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not impossible &#8211; I&#8217;m more and more convinced the Chinese are hiding something big.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the number is a lot <em>less <\/em>subject to the vagaries of bureaucratic competence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical therapy this morning, the receptionist wanted to know if I had come into contact with anyone who is confirmed by medical testing to have coronavirus. How would I know? Do they wear a big C on their chest? You don&#8217;t have Corona virus unless you&#8217;re tested for it. You can&#8217;t get tested for it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73703","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=73703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73710,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73703\/revisions\/73710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}