{"id":6517,"date":"2020-11-16T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2020-11-16T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:11:14","slug":"corona-virus-thoughts-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/corona-virus-thoughts-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona Virus Thoughts #19"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6517\" data-postid=\"6517\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6517 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Closing in on almost a quarter million dead in America. The President says and does nothing about it. No words at all. I bet some of the dead even voted for him. Wouldn&#8217;t that be fascinating to determine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can feel another big lockdown coming as record number of cases and hospitalizations occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, we continue to play football with hundreds of men interacting and in some places, with thousands of fans. It&#8217;s utter madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&#8230;authorities in some places allowed football with or without fans but not church services of over 50 or so. I guess they got their priorities right in those states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Brown announced a two-week shutdown of non essential businesses starting Wednesday, yet UO and OSU will still play football. Total insanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Governor Brown, an elderly man driving a battered pickup truck pulling a fifth wheel trailer has marooned himself near the beach on a dead end road. He has covered his truck with graffiti calling Governor Brown all sorts of terrible things. I don&#8217;t what he&#8217;s doing there. He probably doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A storm walloped the Oregon Coast the other night. All I wanted to do was make pea soup and read a Maigret mystery by George Simenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is clear many Americans are giving up on combating the virus. You can see it in their faces, either anger or indifference or total surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oregon&#8217;s cases spiked after Halloween and have been traced to five or so more parties in the Portland area. Trick or treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do wish I could do more to help, but what is there for me to do?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing in on almost a quarter million dead in America. The President says and does nothing about it. No words at all. I bet some of the dead even voted for him. Wouldn&#8217;t that be fascinating to determine? You can feel another big lockdown coming as record number of cases and hospitalizations occur. Still, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corona-virus-thoughts","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6520,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions\/6520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}