{"id":73875,"date":"2020-04-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73875"},"modified":"2020-04-16T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:01:26","slug":"the-real-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73875","title":{"rendered":"The Real Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Epidemics and other disasters come and go   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the worst side-effects of the Covid epidemic are going to be with us for years.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the Raleigh NC Police&#8217;s response to a protest against the government&#8217;s shutdown restrictions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Raleigh-Cops.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73876\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Raleigh-Cops.jpg 851w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Raleigh-Cops-266x300.jpg 266w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Raleigh-Cops-768x866.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And if the people allow this attitude to continue, then they &#8211; we &#8211; will deserve what follows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The First Amendment isn&#8217;t  <em>more <\/em>important than the broad concept of &#8220;order&#8221; &#8211; but it is certainly more important than the Raleigh PD treats it in this case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone needs to get hauled into court, but good.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACLU has been showing <em>some <\/em>signs of paying attention to actual civil liberties again during this crisis.  Here&#8217;s hoping. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epidemics and other disasters come and go But the worst side-effects of the Covid epidemic are going to be with us for years. This was the Raleigh NC Police&#8217;s response to a protest against the government&#8217;s shutdown restrictions: And if the people allow this attitude to continue, then they &#8211; we &#8211; will deserve what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,416,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-covid19","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73875","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=73875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73877,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73875\/revisions\/73877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}