{"id":96501,"date":"2020-03-02T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=96501"},"modified":"2020-03-02T08:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:07:39","slug":"could-increased-focus-on-hygiene-and-disease-actually-lower-total-illness-deaths-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=96501","title":{"rendered":"Could Increased Focus on Hygiene and Disease Actually Lower Total Illness Deaths This Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold, CA&#8230;A bit of counter intuitive thinking for a Monday.  While Covid 19 is real and is and will cause a significant number of deaths for us domestically as in other areas of the world.  Our hunch is there may be a silver lining in that increased focus on disease transmission and self quarantining while sick could actually lower total flu, Covid 19 &#038; other infectious disease deaths in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg 320w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So after all the disruptions that are prudent and needed we may actually end the year with less virus related deaths in 2020 than in previous years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold, CA&#8230;A bit of counter intuitive thinking for a Monday. While Covid 19 is real and is and will cause a significant number of deaths for us domestically as in other areas of the world. Our hunch is there may be a silver lining in that increased focus on disease transmission and self quarantining while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-opinion","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}