{"id":10748,"date":"2020-07-14T20:53:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=10748"},"modified":"2020-07-14T20:53:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:53:33","slug":"i-attended-a-covid-19-party-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/07\/14\/i-attended-a-covid-19-party-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next\/","title":{"rendered":"I attended a Covid-19 party and you won&#8217;t believe what happened next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many news reports about people supposedly attending Covid parties with an intent to get sick &#8211; or to show that Covid-19 is a hoax. One reporter noticed that all of these stories are very poorly sourced to third hand information, often from social media. In other words, probably fake.<\/p>\n<p>I am aware of one specific incident where a local public health quack told news media that many people had attended local Covid parties. The next day, the quack reversed course and said the story was not true.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like any urban legend, this one changes slightly with each telling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-latest-covid-party-story-gets-a-twist\/\">The Latest Covid Party Story Gets a Twist | WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am no longer writing much about social media specific propaganda because I hardly use social media anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I deleted my NextDoor.com account &#8211; the home of busy bodies telling everyone else how to live. I deleted all of my Twitter content and no longer post anything there; found Twitter to be the home of very angry people with poorly thought out opinions, plus the seeming mob rule\/cancel culture going on there. I deleted all of my Facebook content and very rarely post anything there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories about people attending Covid parties and then getting sick are poorly sourced and in general, probably never happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-fear","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}