{"id":77081,"date":"2021-03-04T06:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77081"},"modified":"2021-03-04T06:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:23:22","slug":"re-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77081","title":{"rendered":"Re Abbott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Guy Benson notes the same thing about some of the reaction to Texas governor  Abbott&#8217;s removal of all <em>state enforced <\/em>Covid restrictions in Texas the same way I did:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Based on some of the reactions, you\u2019d think Gov. Abbott just *banned* masks &amp; *mandated* full openings. Some of the craziest responses come from many of the same people whose previous predictions of disproportionate death &amp; suffering based on policy choices were just wrong.<\/p>&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1367229393626673152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My theory:  there is a sizeable population for whom Covid <em>is <\/em>their claim to relevance and authority, even authority of even the most venal and petty variety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not just officials like the once-obscure Andy Slavitt, who owes his re-found prominence to Covid&#8217;s role in deposing Trump.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about every mask-shaming, disinfectant-wipe-hoarding Karen who has found this past year to be an endless cafeteria of options for imposing their need for internal drama on those around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Covid fades, then like the high school football hero the day after graduation, they are just another bunch of annoying non-entities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine they will confront that with any more grace than the high school football hero. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Benson notes the same thing about some of the reaction to Texas governor Abbott&#8217;s removal of all state enforced Covid restrictions in Texas the same way I did: My theory: there is a sizeable population for whom Covid is their claim to relevance and authority, even authority of even the most venal and petty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77081","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=77081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77082,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77081\/revisions\/77082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}