{"id":3261,"date":"2020-11-28T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2020-11-28T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T14:14:47","slug":"twenty-eight-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/28\/twenty-eight-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-eight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday morning. Not as much sleeping as the past two days, but I think I’m getting more on schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going to address the prompt early today because the news section really is what I want to deal with today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So. Prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there someone you were close to at one point in time, that you can no longer stand to be around?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Absolutely. Her. Him. Her. No ill-will towards him. Well, I still talk to her sometimes. Him, too. *shrug*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t have a lot of friends. I never have. Few people get close to me, understand how I work. Some of that is me, but things fall away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of that is a function of my nomadic upbringing. Some of it is a function of how I behave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The amount of ill-will i bear towards those with whom I really don’t have contact varies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By and large, I’m civil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly limiting time spent in the cesspool that is Facebook goes a long way to ensuring that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I use the mute function liberally. That’s kind of eliminated my original concept of just unfriending them there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is related to the news section today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m becoming increasingly convinced of two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The solutions proffered for combating the virus don’t work, and; <\/li>
  2. There’s really not a lot anybody can do about it.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I admit that I’m listening to this<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What I’ve been looking for is solid evidence that the sorts of measures recommended by lockdown proponents that the lockdowns actually work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    New Zealand<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Okay. It’s an island with relatively few residents. Let’s look at Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The numbers there are increasing, too, despite it being late spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Science doesn’t know how to control this. Government, especially ones “following the science” don’t have answers, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So you’re left with a choice of doing something that probably won’t work, or doing nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Politicians are accepting whichever option justifies more authoritarianism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Saturday morning. Not as much sleeping as the past two days, but I think I’m getting more on schedule. Going to address the prompt early today because the news section really is what I want to deal with today. So. Prompt. Is there someone you were close to at one point in time, that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","tag-nojomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}