{"id":176752,"date":"2020-03-29T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/29\/never-let-an-opportunity-for-looting-pass\/"},"modified":"2020-03-29T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:58:00","slug":"never-let-an-opportunity-for-looting-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/29\/never-let-an-opportunity-for-looting-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Let an Opportunity for Looting Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/26\/climate\/plastic-bag-ban-virus.html\">the disposable plastic bag industry is trying to use the Covid-19 pandemic to overturn plastic bag bans<\/a>, because, if you are going to die anyway, why not make sure that the rest of the world resembles a landfill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">They are \u201cpetri dishes for bacteria and carriers of harmful pathogens,\u201d read one warning from a plastics industry group. They are \u201cvirus-laden.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The group\u2019s target? The reusable shopping bags that countless of Americans increasingly use instead of disposable plastic bags.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The plastic bag industry, battered by a wave of bans nationwide, is using the coronavirus crisis to try to block laws prohibiting single-use plastic. \u201cWe simply don\u2019t want millions of Americans bringing germ-filled reusable bags into retail establishments putting the public and workers at risk,\u201d an industry campaign that goes by the name Bag the Ban warned on Tuesday, quoting a Boston Herald column outlining some of the group\u2019s talking points.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Plastics Industry Association is also lobbying to quash plastic bag bans. Last week, it sent a letter to the United States Department of Health and Human Services requesting that the department publicly declare that banning single-use plastics during a pandemic is a health threat.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>F%$# them with Cheney&#8217;s dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, the disposable plastic bag industry is trying to use the Covid-19 pandemic to overturn plastic bag bans, because, if you are going to die anyway, why not make sure that the rest of the world resembles a landfill: They are \u201cpetri dishes for bacteria and carriers of harmful pathogens,\u201d read one warning &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":[368,484,364,572,374,437],"class_list":["post-176752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-environment","tag-evil","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176752"}],"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=176752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}