{"id":5466,"date":"2020-03-17T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T02:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2020-03-19T12:54:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T02:54:44","slug":"meet-the-climate-science-deniers-who-downplayed-covid-19-risks-desmog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/meet-the-climate-science-deniers-who-downplayed-covid-19-risks-desmog\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Climate Science Deniers Who Downplayed COVID-19 Risks | DeSmog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019, which causes the disease COVID-19, was officially a \u201cpublic health emergency of international concern.\u201d At the time, there were cases confirmed in 19 countries and deaths in China had reached 170. The very next day, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) published an article titled, \u201cCoronavirus in the U.S.: How Bad Will It Be?\u201d \u201cIs coronavirus worse than the flu?\u201d it began. \u201cNo, not even close.\u201d \u201cIt already has spread from person-to-person in the U.S., but it probably won&#8217;t go far,\u201d ACSH added. \u201cAnd the American healthcare system is excellent at dealing with this sort of problem.\u201d ACSH is one of several organizations promoting climate science denial that are now spreading misinformation on the coronavirus, with potentially deadly consequences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2020\/03\/16\/climate-science-deniers-downplayed-covid-19-cato-acsh-aei\">Meet the Climate Science Deniers Who Downplayed COVID-19 Risks<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Right wing nutjob policy influencers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019, which causes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[424,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-health","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}