{"id":75621,"date":"2020-10-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75621"},"modified":"2020-10-18T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T12:47:10","slug":"resistance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75621","title":{"rendered":"#Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Fernandez writes about the urge to escape confinement, and how it&#8217;s universal. Even throws in a Shawshank Redemption quote. He labels it &#8220;rebellion,&#8221; a word that implies the authorities are right and the rebels are wrong.<\/p><p>Close, but no cigar. His analysis doesn&#8217;t distinguish the need to escape UNJUST confinement, which was what occurred in that film, and has occurred with all the lock-downs.<\/p><p>&#8220;Cases&#8221; are skyrocketing despite lock-downs and mask orders, but &#8220;deaths&#8221; are not, and particularly not among children, teens, young adults and working people. That means universal house arrest is not necessary, never was. We&#8217;re being punished for no good reason. That&#8217;s unjust confinement.<\/p><p>The urge to escape unjust confinement is not only natural, it&#8217;s right and moral and just. It&#8217;s not an act of rebellion against lawful authority. The people trying to continue the unjust confinement are in the wrong, not those of us trying to escape it.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a mother in memory care.  I&#8217;ll be protecting her (and\/or going along with her facility&#8217;s plans for taking care of her), whatever it takes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to get a ^%$#@ social life back.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both can be done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernandez writes about the urge to escape confinement, and how it&#8217;s universal. Even throws in a Shawshank Redemption quote. He labels it &#8220;rebellion,&#8221; a word that implies the authorities are right and the rebels are wrong. Close, but no cigar. His analysis doesn&#8217;t distinguish the need to escape UNJUST confinement, which was what occurred in [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75621","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=75621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75627,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75621\/revisions\/75627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}