{"id":372,"date":"2020-04-23T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=372"},"modified":"2020-04-23T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:56:53","slug":"most-covid-19-deaths-are-older-people-they-shouldnt-be-treated-as-statistics-vox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/23\/most-covid-19-deaths-are-older-people-they-shouldnt-be-treated-as-statistics-vox\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Covid-19 deaths are older people. They shouldn\u2019t be treated as statistics. &#8211; Vox"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are thousands of Americans dying from Covid-19 every day. Most of them are <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/elderly\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#elderly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/immunocompromised\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#immunocompromised<\/a>, but you almost wouldn\u2019t know it from the headlines. A young, healthy person dies and it\u2019s an injustice, a scare tactic that gets shared on social media with a reminder to stay home. But when it\u2019s a frail senior, well, their time was up. My grandfather gets to be a glossed-over statistic, a data point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/2020\/4\/22\/21228680\/coronavirus-covid-19-deaths-old-elderly-people\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Most Covid-19 deaths are older people. They shouldn\u2019t be treated as statistics. &#8211; Vox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are thousands of Americans dying from Covid-19 every day. Most of them are #elderly and #immunocompromised, but you almost wouldn\u2019t know it from the headlines. A young, healthy person dies and it\u2019s an injustice, a scare tactic that gets shared on social media with a reminder to stay home. But when it\u2019s a frail &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/23\/most-covid-19-deaths-are-older-people-they-shouldnt-be-treated-as-statistics-vox\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[98,99],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}