{"id":74215,"date":"2020-05-22T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74215"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:23","slug":"idle-question-for-governor-walz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74215","title":{"rendered":"Idle Question For Governor Walz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Question:    why are tiny United Churches of Christ in small towns in southwestern Minnesota, the huge Cathedral of Saint Paul, and the sprawling Living Word Church which seats several thousand people several times every normal Sunday, <em>all <\/em>limited to 10 attendees?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s the ostensible &#8220;science&#8221; behind concluding fifty people on a restaurant patio &#8211; any restaurant patio &#8211; but the same limit holds for churches that seat 5,000 as 50?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, it&#8217;s almost as if Minnesota&#8217;s ongoing response to Covid has become so reflexively, un-scientifically, sclerotically unscientific and bureaucracy-driven that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/minnesota-not-nice-11590081572?fbclid=IwAR2tYDO7jvBn5UaTn5yxlKK1gQQlLwVsI_DQdr7nnmwL3Ywz66Rb2jCR2tM\">even the &#8220;elite&#8221; media is starting to take notice<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you know what would be cool?   If we had some group of people, perhaps working for companies that owned printing presses or transmitters, maybe even people who see themselves as heroic comforters of the afflicted and afflictors of the comfortable, who&#8217;d ask questions like this theselves.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than Tom Hauser, sometimes. . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huh.   I guess all this quarantining <em>is <\/em>making me delusional. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: why are tiny United Churches of Christ in small towns in southwestern Minnesota, the huge Cathedral of Saint Paul, and the sprawling Living Word Church which seats several thousand people several times every normal Sunday, all limited to 10 attendees? What&#8217;s the ostensible &#8220;science&#8221; behind concluding fifty people on a restaurant patio &#8211; any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,2],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-minnesota-politics","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74215","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=74215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74220,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74215\/revisions\/74220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}