{"id":12510,"date":"2020-03-12T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12510"},"modified":"2020-03-12T20:41:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:41:42","slug":"general_covid-19_anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/03\/12\/general_covid-19_anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"General covid-19 anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The office today was nearly empty. So were the streets. I guess people are staying at home.<\/p>\n<p>In the gym, people were wiping down their barbells with soapy water. But nobody was worried about door handles, which have been touched by a hundred times more hands than those bars! It&#8217;s like wearing those face masks that all the news sources tell you don&#8217;t help. But it makes people feel less anxious.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Stockholm region has announced that they will stop testing people for the coronavirus, with the exception of hospitalized cases &#8211; the argument being that resources are better spent caring for sick people than testing those who might be sick. And that just a day or two after reassuring statements about how we have all the resources we need. The trade-off is reasonable, but it does not feel reasonable <b>at all<\/b> that we reached the point of having to make that trade-off so soon. So we won&#8217;t have any meaningful statistics about the spread of the virus from now on. Not impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office today was nearly empty. So were the streets. I guess people are staying at home. In the gym, people were wiping down their barbells with soapy water. But nobody was worried about door handles, which have been touched by a hundred times more hands than those bars! It&#8217;s like wearing those face masks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12512,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510\/revisions\/12512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}