{"id":1045,"date":"2020-03-26T21:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2020-03-26T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T04:27:10","slug":"march-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/26\/march-26-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"March 26, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chilly, rainy day here.<\/p>\n<p>Though it felt awkward I sent a message of support to an old friend who is an ER doctor on the East Coast&#8211;and I&#8217;m glad I did.<\/p>\n<p>Dispiriting news continues from Washington.? Large-scale stimulus passed late last night (with all the sausage-making that entails), but there is apparently still no agreement to nationally fund large-scale ventilator production.<\/p>\n<p>Professional epidemiologists <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dalcantonJD\/status\/1243275605262479360\">are<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlipsitch\/status\/1243347447537115136\">dispirited<\/a> by politicized attacks on their work.? Wonder about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikaelThalen\/status\/1243281598037913600\">all those Spring Breakers<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans is emerging as a major new hot spot, just a few weeks after thousands <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darrenrovell\/status\/1238804127808983041\">crowded together<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the White House response continues to be unconscionable, many of us downplayed the risks until they were on our doorsteps.? <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/03\/why-was-it-so-hard-to-raise-the-alarm-on-coronavirus.html\">What is the psychology<\/a> that prevents us from recognizing that the experiences of others in far away places can be relevant to us?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to take a belated moment tonight to sign a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolo.com\/legal-encyclopedia\/washington-community-property-agreement.html\">Community Property Agreement<\/a>, although of course we can&#8217;t get a notary at the moment.? (My brother, who is an estate attorney, will try to smack me in the head via the Internet if he reads this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chilly, rainy day here. Though it felt awkward I sent a message of support to an old friend who is an ER doctor on the East Coast&#8211;and I&#8217;m glad I did. Dispiriting news continues from Washington.? Large-scale stimulus passed late last night (with all the sausage-making that entails), but there is apparently still no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}