{"id":818,"date":"2020-09-30T21:12:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T04:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=818"},"modified":"2020-09-30T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T04:12:26","slug":"news-covid-19-global-deaths-topped-one-million-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/09\/30\/news-covid-19-global-deaths-topped-one-million-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"News: COVID-19 global deaths topped one million on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"466\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-9.02.59-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-9.02.59-PM.png 466w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-9.02.59-PM-177x300.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><figcaption>A milestone no one wanted us to cross, yet here we are. Today&#8217;s numbers from Johns Hopkins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m rather discouraged.  Not just because the pandemic continues to rage out of control, but because the conversation has shifted from, &#8216;how do we emulate countries that got this under control&#8217; to &#8216;how do we try to fall somewhere in the middle of the range of countries where people hate their governments too much to save the lives of those around them?&#8217;  Which is a pretty dramatic drop in ambition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still concerned that this isn&#8217;t going to be our only pandemic, now that I see how BAD some humans are at taking precautions. <span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\"> All the jokes about how zombie movies show humans putting in waaaay more effort not to become zombies than is realistic are hitting me kind of hard right now.<\/span>  (Also, <em>Train to Busan<\/em> is an entertaining addition to the Zombie genre.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjLYn_CTeZs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rather discouraged. Not just because the pandemic continues to rage out of control, but because the conversation has shifted from, &#8216;how do we emulate countries that got this under control&#8217; to &#8216;how do we try to fall somewhere in the middle of the range of countries where people hate their governments too much to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/09\/30\/news-covid-19-global-deaths-topped-one-million-on-monday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News: COVID-19 global deaths topped one million on Monday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pandemic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}