{"id":1098,"date":"2020-04-22T22:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T05:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2020-04-22T22:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T05:45:28","slug":"april-22-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/22\/april-22-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"April 22, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally starting to feel some mental health impacts&#8211;my motivation is dragging as life starts to turn into Groundhog Day.? Other parents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/22\/opinion\/coronavirus-parenting-burnout.html\">feel the same<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff of the next county over from us says he&#8217;ll start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/snohomish-county-sheriff-says-he-wont-enforce-inslees-stay-home-order\/\">refusing to enforce stay-at-home orders<\/a>.? Great, I&#8217;m sure all the sheriffs with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/09\/01\/joe-arpaio-pardon-sheriffs-movement-215566\">radical<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/04\/30\/the-renegade-sheriffs\">ideas<\/a> about their constitutional role will make thoughtful, evidence-based public health decisions for us.<\/p>\n<p>Emerging seroprevalance studies are making it clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmyeaton\/status\/1253018183180705793\">only a tiny minority<\/a> of the US has been exposed&#8211;we are a long way from any kind of herd immunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/stop-writing-why-i-left-new-york-pandemic-essays_n_5e9fa07bc5b6b2e5b839dcd3\">Eviscerating the self-justifications<\/a> for fleeing during a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The first study of that &#8220;wonder drug&#8221; suggests it led to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2\">a substantial increase in fatalities<\/a>&#8230;? This shouldn&#8217;t have been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabrielRossman\/status\/1252646081638182913\">a culture war question<\/a>, we should all be rooting for treatments that work while demanding rigorous evidence that they do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Estimating &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/04\/21\/world\/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html\">excess mortality<\/a>&#8221; to find potentially unaccounted COVID fatalities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/04\/i-work-grocery-store-dont-call-me-hero\/610147\/\">Don&#8217;t call service workers heroes<\/a> while leaving them in peril.<\/p>\n<p>A fiscal tsunami is coming for state and local governments.<\/p>\n<p>So much for the feds &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-21\/barr-says-doj-may-act-against-governors-with-strict-virus-limits\">leaving it up to the governors<\/a>.&#8221;? Are the red states opening early <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aishacs\/status\/1252407674559332359\">trying to avoid<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/jgewm7\/gop-states-reopening-early-will-push-people-scared-to-work-off-unemployment\">massive unemployment rolls<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Might <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VirusesImmunity\/status\/1253038381371662337\">saliva<\/a> give us better tests?<\/p>\n<p>Get a rough haircut now, or wait for a couple more weeks for backordered scissors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally starting to feel some mental health impacts&#8211;my motivation is dragging as life starts to turn into Groundhog Day.? Other parents feel the same&#8230; The sheriff of the next county over from us says he&#8217;ll start refusing to enforce stay-at-home orders.? Great, I&#8217;m sure all the sheriffs with radical ideas about their constitutional role will [&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-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","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=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}