{"id":79419,"date":"2021-09-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79419"},"modified":"2021-09-06T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:11:16","slug":"feeling-strangely-scientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79419","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Strangely Scientific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I caught this the other day.  <\/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\">Scientists now think that while yes, vaccinated people can transmit the virus, that&#39;s rare when they&#39;re not showing symptoms. Please interrupt your doomscrolling for a moment of hope. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6u5rzYKsBF\">https:\/\/t.co\/6u5rzYKsBF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Becky Zosia Dernbach (@bzosiad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bzosiad\/status\/1433778430114402310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 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>So let me get this straight:   a virus transmitted almost exclusively by being expectorated into the air by infected people coughing, is <em>spread less <\/em>by people who aren&#8217;t coughing as much?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What manner of sorcery is this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet again, science seems to be bearing out my knee-jerk assumptions, by the way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this the other day. So let me get this straight: a virus transmitted almost exclusively by being expectorated into the air by infected people coughing, is spread less by people who aren&#8217;t coughing as much? What manner of sorcery is this? Yet again, science seems to be bearing out my knee-jerk assumptions, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79419","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=79419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79420,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79419\/revisions\/79420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}