{"id":43439,"date":"2020-07-04T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43439"},"modified":"2020-07-04T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T01:57:00","slug":"wishing-it-away-wont-do-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43439","title":{"rendered":"Wishing it away won&#8217;t do the job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVID19%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pandemic-300x200-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42193\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pandemic-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be brief, Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to remind you &#8212; as if you should even <em>need<\/em> reminding &#8212; that wishing the COVID-19 pandemic will disappear won&#8217;t make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing will make the pandemic vanish all by itself. We need presidential leadership that sends consistent messages to the people in the land. We need to develop a vaccine. We need to ensure that we test Americans who worry about catching the killer virus.<\/p>\n<p>We need a whole lot more from you than we&#8217;re getting.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all we need to hear a whole lot less of the mindless, brainless happy talk that foments the Big Lie about what a fantastic job your administration is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Enough of the bullsh**, Mr. President!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVID19%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be brief, Mr. President. I just want to remind you &#8212; as if you should even need reminding &#8212; that wishing the COVID-19 pandemic will disappear won&#8217;t make it happen. Nothing will make the pandemic vanish all by itself. We need presidential leadership that sends consistent messages to the people in the land. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wishing it away won&#8217;t do the job<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9236,9261],"class_list":["post-43439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43440,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43439\/revisions\/43440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}