{"id":73717,"date":"2020-04-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73717"},"modified":"2020-03-30T20:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T01:40:13","slug":"lessons-learned-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73717","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the Covid pandemic, and its attendant panic-buying, started, I noted that there was a good news, bad news thing going on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news?  Americans had learned a thing or two about disaster preparedness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news?  They learned it from <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tangentially related?   Everyone whose idea of &#8220;preparedness&#8221; involves some variation of &#8220;bugging out for the boonies&#8221; might wanna rethink that, before a <em>real <\/em>emergency hits.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhode Island <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/03\/28\/rhode-island-sending-cops-national-guard-to-find-new-yorkers-seeking-coronavirus-refuge\/\">wants to start going door to door looking for New Yorkers<\/a> fleeing the pandemic&#8217;s hot spot.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s probably unconstitutional, and it&#8217;s probably going to get shot down in court&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;long after the pandemic has retreated into the past.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But be advised &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/25\/nyregion\/coronavirus-leaving-nyc-vacation-homes.html\">the locals are not amused<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Covid pandemic, and its attendant panic-buying, started, I noted that there was a good news, bad news thing going on. The good news? Americans had learned a thing or two about disaster preparedness. The bad news? They learned it from The Walking Dead. Tangentially related? Everyone whose idea of &#8220;preparedness&#8221; involves some variation [&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-73717","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\/73717","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=73717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73718,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73717\/revisions\/73718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}