{"id":5490,"date":"2020-03-21T10:09:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T00:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2020-03-21T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T00:09:24","slug":"coronavirus-is-raising-questions-of-how-well-equipped-our-political-leaders-are-to-handle-a-national-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/21\/coronavirus-is-raising-questions-of-how-well-equipped-our-political-leaders-are-to-handle-a-national-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus is raising questions of how well-equipped our political leaders are to handle a national emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;And it has to plan for the worst-case scenario, but needs to be careful not to broadcast that worst-case scenario too widely, lest it creates panic.&#8221;This time around, too, it has been every country for itself in response to this virus, so the messages from around are adding to the uncertainty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-03-21\/coronavirus-politics-has-stopped-being-a-game\/12075390\">Coronavirus is raising questions of how well-equipped our political leaders are to handle a national emergency<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We clearly have a numpty in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And it has to plan for the worst-case scenario, but needs to be careful not to broadcast that worst-case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","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=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}