{"id":79391,"date":"2021-09-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79391"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:23:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:23:35","slug":"cross-cultural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79391","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Cultural"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Re draconian restrictions with a goal to &#8220;eradicate Covid with zero cases and fatalities&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>How long can this last? If it was up to the drunk-on-power politicians and bureaucrats who have found a winning electoral formula, health experts who have found relevance, and the deathly scared who have found a sense of safety (and, for some at least, the frisson of being a part of something big and important), the answer is \u201cforever.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/australias-crazy-covid-response?wallit_nosession=1\">written about Australia<\/a>, where celebrity bureaucrats, power-drunk petty authorities and Big Karen have teamed up to create a post-freedom state (which, honesty, I expected to see in the UK, France and Germany long before Australia). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it applies to Minnesota as well.  As we may well be finding out the hard way, when (as I suspect) Governor Walz spins up another &#8220;state of emergency&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re draconian restrictions with a goal to &#8220;eradicate Covid with zero cases and fatalities&#8221;: How long can this last? If it was up to the drunk-on-power politicians and bureaucrats who have found a winning electoral formula, health experts who have found relevance, and the deathly scared who have found a sense of safety (and, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-karen","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79391","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=79391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79394,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79391\/revisions\/79394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}