{"id":11958,"date":"2020-03-30T15:57:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:57:11","slug":"great-moments-in-the-history-of-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11958","title":{"rendered":"Great moments in the history of stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell, Jr., a regular chip off the old block, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/29\/us\/politics\/coronavirus-liberty-university-falwell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stupidly reopened Liberty Universit<\/a>y to students last week.  Now &#8212; What do you know? &#8212; he&#8217;s got coronavirus all over campus, and abruptly-departing students are taking it home.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve lost the ability to corral this thing,\u201d Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr. said he told Mr. Falwell. But he did not urge him to close the school. \u201cI just am not going to be so presumptuous as to say, \u2018This is what you should do and this is what you shouldn\u2019t do,\u2019\u201d Dr. Eppes said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>So Mr. Falwell \u2014 a staunch ally of President Trump and an influential voice in the evangelical world \u2014 reopened the university last week, igniting a firestorm. As of Friday, Dr. Eppes said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggested Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. An additional eight were told to self-isolate.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>Of the 1,900 students who initially returned last week to campus, Mr. Falwell said more than 800 had left. But he said he had \u201cno idea\u201d how many students had returned to off-campus housing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never &#8212; Never.  Ever.  &#8212; allow Holy Men to go messing with grown-up stuff; their minds can&#8217;t be trusted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell, Jr., a regular chip off the old block, stupidly reopened Liberty University to students last week. Now &#8212; What do you know? &#8212; he&#8217;s got coronavirus all over campus, and abruptly-departing students are taking it home. \u201cWe\u2019ve lost &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11958\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11960,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}