{"id":79556,"date":"2021-09-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79556"},"modified":"2021-09-22T05:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T10:02:18","slug":"more-faster-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79556","title":{"rendered":"More, Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If the Feds (and the State of Minnesota&#8217;s) response to Covid were being driven by public health rather than politics (or, perhaps worse, a clumsiliy-politicized approach to public health), the &#8220;national conversation&#8221; would include a serious look into the effects of acquired immunity &#8211; the level of natural immunity that people who&#8217;ve had and recovered from Covid have.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been 40 million diagnosed cases of Covid in the US, and it seems inevitable that there are many millions more &#8211; some estimates say well over double.  Let&#8217;s be (what else?) conservative and say &#8220;several million&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that this nation isn&#8217;t systematically testing for antibodies, and not only studying the effects of acquired immunity but publicizing the output of those studies, is to say the least troubling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/16\/ron-johnson-vaccine-mandate-natural-immunity-letter-covid-19-coronavirus\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">we apparently need a Senator to clue our &#8220;public health&#8221; apparatus into asking, and publicly discussing, this basic question<\/a> should be enough to make anyone question the results the bureaucracy is actually looking for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Feds (and the State of Minnesota&#8217;s) response to Covid were being driven by public health rather than politics (or, perhaps worse, a clumsiliy-politicized approach to public health), the &#8220;national conversation&#8221; would include a serious look into the effects of acquired immunity &#8211; the level of natural immunity that people who&#8217;ve had and recovered [&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-79556","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\/79556","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=79556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79557,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556\/revisions\/79557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}