{"id":80620,"date":"2022-01-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80620"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:34:06","slug":"dear-hostage-takers-and-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80620","title":{"rendered":"Dear Hostage-Takers &#8211; And Hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:   Mayors Carter and Frey<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant<br>Re:  Your Hostages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayors,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You just announced your new and, if I may be frank, moronic Covid restrictions:<\/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\">BREAKING: The mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul announced Wednesday that people entering establishments serving food or beverages will need to show proof of vaccination or a negative test within 72 hours to enter. | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lwztrdfv9A\">https:\/\/t.co\/lwztrdfv9A<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WCCO | CBS News Minnesota (@WCCO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCCO\/status\/1481353909411143686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s make sure we&#8217;re clear here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had the OG Covid, way back in 2020.  Back before it got easy to catch and less virulent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve donated convalescent plasma.  As much as I could, in fact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got vaccinated &#8211; not out of any ideological drive, but because I&#8217;ve got some exceptionally vulnerable relatives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty sure I just got over Omicron.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been contributing to herd immunity since most of you, my &#8220;Karen&#8221; neighbors, were hiding in your basement and dunking your food in rubbing alcohol before eating it.  I am likely the immunologically safest person you will meet anytime soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I will not be spending one dollar in Minneapolis or Saint Paul until this is over.  And if I get <em>completely <\/em>out of the habit of spending in Saint Paul?   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, no. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bear in mind &#8211; I&#8217;ve been trying to spend more money in harried Saint Paul establishments over the past 20 months; I&#8217;ve tried to help my neighbors out.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No more.  You people voted for these hamsters.  You all can go down with the ship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not another dime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Mayors Carter and FreyFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Your Hostages Mayors, You just announced your new and, if I may be frank, moronic Covid restrictions: Let&#8217;s make sure we&#8217;re clear here. I had the OG Covid, way back in 2020. Back before it got easy to catch and less virulent. I&#8217;ve donated convalescent plasma. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,17,28,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-minneapolis","category-st-paul","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80620","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=80620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80623,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80620\/revisions\/80623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}