{"id":176338,"date":"2020-07-09T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/09\/gee-you-think-3\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T00:10:00","slug":"gee-you-think-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/09\/gee-you-think-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee, You Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Tulsa health department is saying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/07\/08\/health-official-trumps-tulsa-rally-likely-source-of-virus-surge\">Donald Trump&#8217;s damp squib of a rally probably led to a surge in Covid-19 cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, color me completely not surprised:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign rally in Tulsa that drew thousands of people in late June, along with large protests that accompanied it, \u201clikely contributed&#8221; to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said Wednesday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Although the Health Department&#8217;s policy is to not publicly identify individual settings where people may have contracted the virus, Dart said those large gatherings \u201cmore than likely&#8221; contributed to the spike.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIn the past few days, we\u2019ve seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots,&#8221; Dart said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the saying goes, &#8220;\u30d0\u30ab\u306b\u3064\u3051\u308b\u85ac\u306f\u306a\u3044&#8221;.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Pronounced in Japanese,&#8221;baka ni tsukeru kusuri wanai&#8221;, which means, &#8220;There is no medicine for stupidity.&#8221;  Apologies for any inaccuracies in the text, I do not know Japanese.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Tulsa health department is saying that Donald Trump&#8217;s damp squib of a rally probably led to a surge in Covid-19 cases. Well, color me completely not surprised: President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign rally in Tulsa that drew thousands of people in late June, along with large protests that accompanied it, \u201clikely contributed&#8221; &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":[588,572,374,406],"class_list":["post-176338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176338"}],"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=176338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}