{"id":175760,"date":"2020-12-06T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/06\/am-i-a-bad-person-for-laughing\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T00:01:00","slug":"am-i-a-bad-person-for-laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/06\/am-i-a-bad-person-for-laughing\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I A Bad Person for Laughing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/212uv.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/212uv.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Because my reaction to learning that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-55210243\">Rudy Giuliani has Covid-19 was a hearty guffaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know that the conventional wisdom is that no one deserves to catch Covid-19, but yes, dripping Rudy deserves to have caught the disease.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been a walking and talking super-spreader, and any concerns I have are with those who he might have exposed, not him:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has tested positive for Covid-19 and is being treated in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The president wrote in a tweet: &#8220;Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Giuliani, who has led the Trump campaign&#8217;s legal challenges to the election results, is the latest person close to the president to be infected.<\/p>\n<p>The president and his team have been criticised for shunning safety guidance. Mr Trump was ill in October.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Giuliani, 76, was admitted to the Medstar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC on Sunday, according to US media reports. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ha ha. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because my reaction to learning that Rudy Giuliani has Covid-19 was a hearty guffaw. I know that the conventional wisdom is that no one deserves to catch Covid-19, but yes, dripping Rudy deserves to have caught the disease. He&#8217;s been a walking and talking super-spreader, and any concerns I have are with those who he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[572,374,486],"class_list":["post-175760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}