{"id":12312,"date":"2020-04-18T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12312"},"modified":"2020-04-17T10:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:43:18","slug":"our-new-post-virus-lexicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-new-post-virus-lexicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Our New Post-Virus Lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Antibody&nbsp;badges = surely a German import<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Antibody tests = It seems that nobody tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AOC = See, emissions went down during shelter in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best and Brightest = being wrong on modeling, human infectiousness, test-kit availability, travel bans, masks, and anti-malarial drugs, without ever having to say your\u2019re sorry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Biden = Beware of Ezekiel Emanuel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Pharma =&nbsp;<del>Leave!<\/del>&nbsp;Come Home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bioweapon = the next Chinese summit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boomers = Hey man, so, so sorry about the debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Bloomberg = oddly melted down and exited the national stage before the Chinese virus struck<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Border security = yesterday\u2019s Neanderthalism; today\u2019s prescience<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC =&nbsp;<del>Wearing masks is bad<\/del>;&nbsp;<del>masks for some are better than for others<\/del>; all masks are good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China = yesterday\u2019s inevitable new hegemon; today\u2019s global pariah, tomorrow\u2019s 1.4-billion-person infectious nightmare<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-pandemic-new-lexicon-post-virus-world\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Antibody&nbsp;badges = surely a German import Antibody tests = It seems that nobody tests. AOC = See, emissions went down during shelter in place. Best and Brightest = being wrong on modeling, human infectiousness, test-kit availability, travel bans, masks, and anti-malarial drugs, without ever having to say your\u2019re sorry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3cA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12320,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/an-informed-public-will-always-decide-on-the-virus\/","url_meta":{"origin":12312,"position":0},"title":"An Informed Public Will Always Decide on the Virus","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review A number of NRO writers have offered today some valuable cautionary data about antibody testing and herd immunity. 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