{"id":2221,"date":"2022-01-30T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2022-01-30T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T15:16:08","slug":"2221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/30\/2221\/","title":{"rendered":"The nasty, horrible, mean hypothesis that I do not endorse and don&#8217;t think about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule (not exclusively), who is being killed by Covid? Older people, and people with &#8220;co-morbidities.&#8221; That is, people who are a drain on the healthcare system. Sure, they cause a temporary spike in costs, but think of all the savings down the road? <\/p>\n<p>As a general rule (not exclusively), who is being killed by Fentanyl? People who aren&#8217;t very productive members of society. <\/p>\n<p>If some uber-practical, cynical guy were running the world, why would he particularly care about these deaths? <\/p>\n<p>Ah, but our government is made of nice people. They would never do something like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2020\/06\/30\/fact-check-u-s-government-poisoned-some-alcohol-during-prohibition\/3283701001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poison alcohol to keep people from drinking it<\/a>, or any sort of under-handed shenanigans like that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule (not exclusively), who is being killed by Covid? Older people, and people with &#8220;co-morbidities.&#8221; That is, people who are a drain on the healthcare system. Sure, they cause a temporary spike in costs, but think of all the savings down the road? As a general rule (not exclusively), who is being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/30\/2221\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The nasty, horrible, mean hypothesis that I do not endorse and don&#8217;t think about&#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-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","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=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}