{"id":74358,"date":"2020-06-08T06:27:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T11:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74358"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:43","slug":"open-question-for-the-party-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74358","title":{"rendered":"Open Question For &#8220;The Party Of Science&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Governor Walz and the Minnesota DFL<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant who passed College Biology<br>Re:   Help me underdstand this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Walz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let me get this straight.   According to you;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid19 is a lethal epidemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attending protests to seek the re-opening of the state during the middle of the pandemic  threatens grandma and, since &#8220;essential workers&#8221; will bear the brunt of any outbreak, likely racist as well.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when one is attending mass demonstrations, even ones involving violence and property damage, against a politically-acceptable cause, or attending a funeral in a packed church full of un-masked people, <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Jyfn4Wd2i6bRi12ePghMHtX3ys1b7K1A\/view?fbclid=IwAR3cSQYO-p4dEvxi-62JfNCY9XWrmb0BN5esrh-gqVeGadGLErtb4LA3vdw\">it&#8217;s utterly acceptable<\/a> from an epidemiological standpoint.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/06\/05\/870144402\/tear-gassing-protesters-during-an-infectious-outbreak-called-a-recipe-for-disast\">Unless there&#8217;s tear gas involved<\/a>.  Because then, Covid is a deadly pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remembering, as always, that y&#8217;all are the &#8220;party of science&#8221;, not febrile superstition, yessireebob.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Governor Walz and the Minnesota DFLFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant who passed College BiologyRe: Help me underdstand this Governor Walz So let me get this straight. According to you; Covid19 is a lethal epidemic. Attending protests to seek the re-opening of the state during the middle of the pandemic threatens grandma and, since &#8220;essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,416,49],"tags":[249,423],"class_list":["post-74358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-covid19","category-science","tag-open-letters","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74358","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=74358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74362,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74358\/revisions\/74362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}