{"id":147,"date":"2004-10-19T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=147"},"modified":"2004-10-19T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T16:45:06","slug":"in-a-crisis-dig-a-hole-and-stick-your-head-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"In a crisis, dig a hole and stick your head in it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typical poilicy in the Bush administration is to attack a crisis not by helping to solve it, but by denying it ever exists.  True to form, the Bush administration is attacking the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/10\/05\/news\/midcaps\/chiron\/?cnn=yes\">flu shot shortage<\/a> by simply denying that the shortage is even a health crisis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The shortage of flu vaccine in the United States is &#8220;not a health crisis,&#8221; Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said, urging people to be patient as the government works to reallocate the nation&#8217;s limited number of vaccines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How nice.  No crisis and no panic.  Nevermind that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/news\/hampton\/10192004\/news\/43847.htm\">seniors are waiting for hours in line for vaccines they may not even get<\/a>, and at least one person has died in the mounting stress while waiting for it.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the administration thinks this problem can be avoided by taking the same stance they do with the  environment.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushgreenwatch.org\/\">Ignore it, and you don&#8217;t have a problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush says there&#8217;s &#8220;no flu crisis&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}