{"id":74377,"date":"2020-06-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74377"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:09","slug":"some-memorials-are-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74377","title":{"rendered":"Some Memorials Are More Equal Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

My brother died one month ago today.  No funeral – they were illegal.  Covid. It was SCIENCE!<\/p>

Then the Covid rules changed: we could have a 10-people funeral.  That wasn’t enough for both our side and the widow’s side of the family to attend.  No funeral.  SCIENCE!<\/p>

Then the Covid rules changed again: we could have a funeral, 25% capacity, social distancing, masks for all.  SCIENCE!<\/p>

We’re burying my brother tomorrow.  Afterwards, we’ve rented a picnic shelter in the park to eat box lunch, watch a tribute video and share memories.  Well, some of us are.  The picnic shelter is open on three sides but has roof and one wall so it’s considered a “structure.”  There’s a 10-person limit in the picnic shelter.  The rest of us must stand outside and take turns rotating through, with masks, and social distancing.  Because Covid, you know.  It’s SCIENCE!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I can’t help noticing the crowd at the George Floyd memorial.  Capacity, social distance, masks – whatever happened to all that Science? <\/p>

Maybe it’s like rock, paper, scissors: Fire burns Science; Fire wins.  Instead of following the rules like a good little boy, I should have burned down a Black neighborhood. <\/p>

I’ll keep that in mind.<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Well, torching any low-income or immigrant neighborhood will actually do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My brother died one month ago today.  No funeral – they were illegal.  Covid. It was SCIENCE! Then the Covid rules changed: we could have a 10-people funeral.  That wasn’t enough for both our side and the widow’s side of the family to attend.  No funeral.  SCIENCE! Then the Covid rules changed again: we could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,255,349],"tags":[432,423],"class_list":["post-74377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-the-racket","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-george-floyd","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74377","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=74377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74382,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74377\/revisions\/74382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}