{"id":444,"date":"2020-06-08T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T23:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=444"},"modified":"2020-07-02T16:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T23:06:33","slug":"protests-and-policing-will-worsen-the-coronavirus-pandemic-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/08\/protests-and-policing-will-worsen-the-coronavirus-pandemic-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests and Policing Will Worsen the Coronavirus Pandemic &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Businesses are reopening. Protests are erupting nationwide. But the virus isn\u2019t done with us.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no point in denying the obvious: Standing in a crowd for long periods raises the risk of increased transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This particular form of mass, in-person protest\u2014and the corresponding police response\u2014is a \u201cperfect set-up\u201d for transmission of the virus, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a radio interview on Friday. Some police-brutality activists (such as Black Lives Matter Seattle) have issued statements about the risk involved in the protests. Others have organized less risky forms of protests, such as Oakland\u2019s Anti Police-Terror Project\u2019s massive \u201ccaravan for justice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2020\/06\/america-giving-up-on-pandemic\/612796\/\" 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>Protests and Policing Will Worsen the Coronavirus Pandemic &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses are reopening. Protests are erupting nationwide. But the virus isn\u2019t done with us. There\u2019s no point in denying the obvious: Standing in a crowd for long periods raises the risk of increased transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This particular form of mass, in-person protest\u2014and the corresponding police response\u2014is a \u201cperfect set-up\u201d &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/08\/protests-and-policing-will-worsen-the-coronavirus-pandemic-the-atlantic\/\" 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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}