{"id":1090,"date":"2020-04-15T22:31:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T05:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2020-04-15T22:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T05:31:24","slug":"april-15-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/15\/april-15-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"April 15, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stimulus money arrived via direct deposit today.? I&#8217;m grateful that we can direct it to others who need it more.<\/p>\n<p>Once again for those in the back: <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/thebulwark\/this-is-how-you-explain-that-covid-19-is-not-the-flu\">it&#8217;s not the flu!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20200413\/gop-lawmakers-protesters-call-on-dewine-to-begin-re-opening-ohio\">protests<\/a> demanding that the country be re-opened are beginning to pop up around the country.? It&#8217;s hard to accept that things <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/04\/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal\/609940\/\">aren&#8217;t just one day going to be back to normal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I fear we are about to have the worst of all worlds: squandered opportunities to prepare in the ramp-up, an economically destructive lockdown, and then a chaotic and uncontrolled reopening that in one month leads to widespread resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>The rationalist &#8220;probabilistic reasoning&#8221; crowd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/noted-philosophers-reconsider-their-key-insights-after-a-month-of-social-distancing\">tries to understand<\/a> their own underreaction to the looming pandemic.? But humans just don&#8217;t reason with Bayes&#8217; Theorem day-to-day&#8211;especially if there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/how-to-talk-to-coronavirus-skeptics\">implications we&#8217;d rather avoid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/noted-philosophers-reconsider-their-key-insights-after-a-month-of-social-distancing\">Humor<\/a> helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stimulus money arrived via direct deposit today.? I&#8217;m grateful that we can direct it to others who need it more. Once again for those in the back: it&#8217;s not the flu! Right-wing protests demanding that the country be re-opened are beginning to pop up around the country.? It&#8217;s hard to accept that things aren&#8217;t just [&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-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","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=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}