{"id":23901,"date":"2020-03-25T19:15:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23901"},"modified":"2023-05-16T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T20:26:14","slug":"how-to-put-your-foot-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23901","title":{"rendered":"How To Put Your Foot In It!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The reality of COVID-19 spreading\" width=\"692\" height=\"346\" align=\"left\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 692px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 692\/346;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/covid_spread-1.gif\" alt=\"The reality of COVID-19 spreading\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><strong>This was posted right at the start of the pandemic. Bear that in mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Coronavirus pandemic started, one of the most annoying aspects of it has been how all the self-professed \u2018experts\u2019 have squirmed out of the woodwork and offered their takes on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am repeatedly pointing out on various message boards that when the entire scientific world is treating this as a <strong>Very Serious Problem,<\/strong> the likelihood of some wanker who is getting through boxes of tissues because of being shut up in their room for too long hitting on an alternative and more correct interpretation is similar to that of winning the lottery by not even doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, it isn\u2019t going to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are the conspiracy theorists, who claim it is manmade. There are those who think it is a hoax, and not as bad as is made out. And then there are those whose heads sound like pan-pipes when the wind blows past their ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was bad enough two weeks ago when people were doing it. And back then, others were agreeing with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But to see someone post the same comment today \u2013 that China has had 20,000 deaths because of COVID-19, but it has 20,000 a day from other causes \u2013 is beyond stupid. Light years beyond stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was posted right at the start of the pandemic. Bear that in mind. Since the Coronavirus pandemic started, one of the most annoying aspects of it has been how all the self-professed \u2018experts\u2019 have squirmed out of the woodwork and offered their takes on it. I am repeatedly pointing out on various message boards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-covid-19"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}