{"id":1365,"date":"2021-06-29T15:42:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2021-06-29T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:43:43","slug":"what-have-you-learned-from-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/29\/what-have-you-learned-from-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"What have you learned from the pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few things I&#8217;ve learned, just off the top of my head. Please add your own thoughts in the comments. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Science, like everything else, becomes corrupted when it intersects with politics.\n<li> There is a huge divide in America over acceptable risk. Some people seem to like the idea of being afraid.\n<li> The news media was a joke before the pandemic. Now it&#8217;s a disgrace.\n<li> Way too many powerful people are afraid of offending China.\n<li> Our checks and balances need to be re-evaluated. Governors and presidents need emergency powers, but there have to be limits, and we haven&#8217;t worked that out yet.\n<li> The pandemic exposed how deeply divided we are. Most people have been trained to immediately categorize other people based on what they perceive as ideological tells. There is no space made for ambiguity or nuance. It&#8217;s assumed you have picked a camp and are loyal to it.\n<li> Somewhat related to the point immediately above, virtue signaling has become a way of life for far too many people. <\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few things I&#8217;ve learned, just off the top of my head. Please add your own thoughts in the comments. Science, like everything else, becomes corrupted when it intersects with politics. There is a huge divide in America over acceptable risk. Some people seem to like the idea of being afraid. The news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/29\/what-have-you-learned-from-the-pandemic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What have you learned from the pandemic?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}