{"id":11563,"date":"2020-12-09T01:32:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T09:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=11563"},"modified":"2020-12-09T02:17:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T10:17:44","slug":"perverted-locusts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=11563","title":{"rendered":"Perverted Locusts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who support locking-down in response to <abbr class=\"noshrink\" title=\"severe acute respiratory syndrome\">SARS<\/abbr>-<abbr class=\"noshrink\" title=\"coronavirus\">CoV<\/abbr>-2 are like weird locusts.  Instead of eating the crops; these locusts prevent growth and harvest.  That is to say that they prevent economic activity, which is an implicit consumption of an especially perverse sort.  In any case, they leave despair and literal starvation in their wake.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those who support locking-down in response to SARS-CoV-2 are like weird locusts. Instead of eating the crops; these locusts prevent growth and harvest. That is to say that they prevent economic activity, which is an implicit consumption of an especially perverse sort. In any case, they leave despair and literal starvation in their wake.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,720,318,9,104,4],"tags":[1561,1565,1564,1563,1562],"class_list":["post-11563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-economics","category-epistemology","category-ethics-philosophy","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-covid-19","tag-faucism","tag-lock-downs","tag-lockdowns","tag-sars-cov-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11565,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions\/11565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}