{"id":10428,"date":"2020-08-08T08:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T06:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=10428"},"modified":"2020-08-08T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:13:12","slug":"stock-phrases-as-public-policy-it-is-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=10428","title":{"rendered":"Stock phrases as public policy (it is what it is)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/07\/south-dakota-bikers-rally-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least 100,000 people are expected to attend the 10-day annual Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota\u2019s Black Hills from Friday, as opportunities for the local economy have overridden concerns it could become a coronavirus superspreading event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve not seen one single person wearing a mask,\u201d said Jessica Christian, who is working at a bar at the sprawling event.\u201cIt\u2019s just pretty much the mentality that, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fatalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"white-space:nowrap\">If I get it, I get it<\/span><\/a>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sitting here and I\u2019m watching people walk up and down the street, watching people ride up and down the street. A few have masks \u2013 most don\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dasein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">There\u2019s not much we can do<\/a>. Everybody is coming here with their eyes wide open. They know what they\u2019re getting into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mark Carstensen said throughout the pandemic, \u201cthe state of South Dakota has been the <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/rousseau\/#RousClaiRecoFreeAuth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freedom<\/a> state and the city of Sturgis has stayed true to that\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Carstensen emphasized that public health could not be pitted against the economy and people\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surplus_labour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ability to maintain livelihoods<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a situation where those can work together. It\u2019s not easy,\u201d the mayor said, \u201cbut <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Survivorship_bias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we\u2019re all in this together<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: At least 100,000 people are expected to attend the 10-day annual Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota\u2019s Black Hills from Friday, as opportunities for the local economy have overridden concerns it could become a coronavirus superspreading event. \u2026 \u201cI\u2019ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=10428\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}