{"id":316,"date":"2020-03-31T19:49:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2020-03-31T19:49:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:49:24","slug":"a-bit-of-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/a-bit-of-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of perspective*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week&#8217;s flu season update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"664\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-1.png 598w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-1-270x300.png 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"680\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-2.png 572w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-2-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/flu\/stats\/flustats12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/flu\/stats\/flustats12.pdf <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Note that I am not saying COVID-19 isn&#8217;t worse than the flu, nor am I saying that things won&#8217;t change.  I just think the media has a lot of us in a mode where perspective has gone out the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s flu season update: Source: https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/flu\/stats\/flustats12.pdf *Note that I am not saying COVID-19 isn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-narrative","wpcat-10-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}