{"id":8111,"date":"2020-05-10T07:19:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T14:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2020-05-10T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T14:19:43","slug":"an-absolute-chaotic-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/05\/an-absolute-chaotic-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;An absolute chaotic disaster&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former president Barack Obama has called the current presidential administration&#8217;s response to the coronavirus situation &#8220;an absolute chaotic disaster.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-52602580\">Full quote here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even accounting for some measure of political calculation, hoping to help his own party&#8217;s chances in the November election, there&#8217;s a lot of truth in what Obama said. For example, look at this bar graph showing the number of cases per country:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-10-at-7.06.17-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-10-at-7.06.17-AM.png 958w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-10-at-7.06.17-AM-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-10-at-7.06.17-AM-768x452.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And to quote the BBC: &#8220;More than 77,000 people have now died and the US has 1.2m confirmed cases &#8212; both by far the highest in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Barack Obama has called the current presidential administration&#8217;s response to the coronavirus situation &#8220;an absolute chaotic disaster.&#8221; (Full quote here.) Even accounting for some measure of political calculation, hoping to help his own party&#8217;s chances in the November election, there&#8217;s a lot of truth in what Obama said. For example, look at this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/05\/an-absolute-chaotic-disaster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;An absolute chaotic disaster&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[739],"class_list":["post-8111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-culture","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}