{"id":627,"date":"2020-03-29T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=627"},"modified":"2020-03-29T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T23:42:00","slug":"what-corona-virus-feels-like-in-my-house-compared-to-what-seems-to-be-happening-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/03\/29\/what-corona-virus-feels-like-in-my-house-compared-to-what-seems-to-be-happening-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"What Corona Virus feels like in my house, compared to what seems to be happening in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my theme for blogs this week has been news in the Middle East and Corona Virus in the Middle East. I figured that it would be appropriate for me to write about what I&#8217;m reading from their news compared to what I&#8217;m experiencing in my own home.<\/p>\n<p>While reading news about the Middle East it&#8217;s very easy to tell that the virus there is taking control of the entire region, with it&#8217;s statistics rapidly approaching those of Italy. The US is also exponentially climbing in number infected as well as number dead, this number just surpassed over 2,000 people today.<\/p>\n<p>Of course not on the same level as the Middle East, but definitely similarly, Indianapolis simply does not have enough tests to test people who aren&#8217;t high risk. As I am a healthy 19 year old, I have been presumed positive by the state, and asked to self quarantine for 2 weeks. My mother can&#8217;t even get tested yet, and she has Lupus which puts her at a very high risk of being a fatality from this disease.<\/p>\n<p>This though just doesn&#8217;t even touch the fact that many people, such as in Lebanon like we talked about earlier. Just aren&#8217;t even being communicated with simply because of documentation. I just found it interesting to compare what&#8217;s happening in my house, to what I can access on the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my theme for blogs this week has been news in the Middle East and Corona Virus in the Middle East. I figured that it would be appropriate for me to write about what I&#8217;m reading from their news compared to what I&#8217;m experiencing in my own home. While reading news about the Middle East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}