{"id":117730,"date":"2020-12-28T23:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T07:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-write-up-on-transhumanism-the-vaccine-and-covid"},"modified":"2020-12-28T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T07:22:29","slug":"a-write-up-on-transhumanism-the-vaccine-and-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-write-up-on-transhumanism-the-vaccine-and-covid","title":{"rendered":"A write-up on transhumanism, the vaccine, and Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-write-up-on-transhumanism-the-vaccine-and-covid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former independent presidential hopeful is vexed at the COVID-19 vaccine at the moment, and for multiple reasons. That would be Zoltan Istvan, a self-described transhumanist candidate who was billed as the \u201ccyborg who is running against President Trump\u201d in press reports throughout 2020. The California hopeful \u2014 who ran in the Republican primary \u2014 based his campaign on a futuristic message of fusing radical technology with daily life under the motto \u201cUpgrade America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Istvan recently looked into how long it would be before he got a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took the New York Times\u2019 \u2018Find your Place\u2019 in the vaccine line report, and I was near the bottom 15% of the timeline for getting the vaccine \u2014 meaning I\u2019ll be nearly last,\u201d Mr. Istvan wrote in an email to Inside the Beltway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former independent presidential hopeful is vexed at the COVID-19 vaccine at the moment, and for multiple reasons. That would be Zoltan Istvan, a self-described transhumanist candidate who was billed as the \u201ccyborg who is running against President Trump\u201d in press reports throughout 2020. The California hopeful \u2014 who ran in the Republican primary \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,5,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-geopolitics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117730","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}