{"id":274,"date":"2020-04-10T06:39:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=274"},"modified":"2020-04-10T06:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:39:33","slug":"is-money-worth-more-than-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Is money worth more than lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Only 14% of people have so far had Covid-19 in a hard hit German town,<\/strong> when expectations are 60% &#8211; 80% will get the disease. That means we are in for a long haul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scientists seem most concerned our herd immunity is a long way off. So we should worry that Ministers look to be suggesting some people (young?) could be &#8220;released&#8221; early &#8211; the true reason presumably to expose them faster than in a lockdown, to speed us towards that herd immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So are we being softened up to an acceptance of more deaths than necessary so the economy can be helped? Money over lives?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/04\/09\/999015\/blood-tests-show-15-of-people-are-now-immune-to-covid-19-in-one-town-in-germany\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 14% of people have so far had Covid-19 in a hard hit German town, when expectations are 60% &#8211; 80% will get the disease. That means we are in for a long haul. The scientists seem most concerned our herd immunity is a long way off. So we should worry that Ministers look to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=274\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is money worth more than lives?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikes-comments","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}