{"id":104674,"date":"2020-04-03T01:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/when-its-over-will-we-be-the-same-america"},"modified":"2020-04-03T01:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:02:51","slug":"when-its-over-will-we-be-the-same-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/when-its-over-will-we-be-the-same-america","title":{"rendered":"When it\u2019s over, will we be the same America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-its-over-will-we-be-the-same-america.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That 2 million figure would be twice as many dead as have perished in all our wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War, World War I and II, and Korea and Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cDepend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,\u201d said Samuel Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>And as it is with men, so it is with nations.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, projected some 100,000 to 200,000 U.S. deaths from the pandemic, \u201cif we do things almost perfectly.\u201d She agreed with Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s estimate that, if we do \u201cnothing,\u201d the American dead could reach 2.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That 2 million figure would be twice as many dead as have perished in all our wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War, World War I and II, and Korea and Vietnam.\u201d \u201cDepend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}