{"id":388,"date":"2020-07-15T18:57:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2020-07-15T18:57:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T18:57:02","slug":"cause-and-effect-with-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/cause-and-effect-with-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause and effect with COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how so many people feel like they&#8217;re experts on complicated issues because of what they read on social media, as <a href=\"https:\/\/images.app.goo.gl\/tZGieUuQJSMpgRvx5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this comic points out<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>A state decides to open, then the state has a rise in cases. Ergo, opening caused more cases, right? Right? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/07\/14\/cdc-chief-says-northerners-heading-south-for-vacation-may-be-to-blame-for-surge-in-coronavirus-cases-not-state-reopenings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC chief says Northerners heading South for vacation may be to blame for surge in coronavirus cases, not state reopenings<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Can we please be honest and say that we don&#8217;t know? There are many factors involved, and the science is far from settled. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be reasonable and cautious, but when people think they can connect the dots, remind them they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how so many people feel like they&#8217;re experts on complicated issues because of what they read on social media, as this comic points out. A state decides to open, then the state has a rise in cases. Ergo, opening caused more cases, right? Right? CDC chief says Northerners heading South for vacation may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/cause-and-effect-with-covid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cause and effect with COVID&#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-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}