{"id":2865,"date":"2020-03-20T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2020-03-20T19:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:50:33","slug":"the-god-drug-especially-without-critical-thinking-does-not-protect-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/the-god-drug-especially-without-critical-thinking-does-not-protect-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The God drug, especially without critical thinking, does not protect against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UseBrainCorona-1-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2867\" width=\"326\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UseBrainCorona-1-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UseBrainCorona-1-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UseBrainCorona-1-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UseBrainCorona-1-1200x646.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/UseBrainCorona-1.jpg 1486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 85vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether in Brooklyn (USA), Jerusalem (Israel-Palestine),\nor Tripoli (Lebanon), over-religious people are literally a danger public to\nothers in times of pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pictures below show people defying strict measures of social distancing, social isolation, and as of tomorrow internal regional isolation (in Lebanon). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why don\u2019t these people pray at home, virtually (in groups, as needed) or by themselves (meditating)? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can always think that this may not be a good evolutionary strategy. However, it is not just about them. They are putting others at risk and this is unacceptable in the circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2869\" width=\"508\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 85vw, 508px\" \/><figcaption>Taken from the <em>New York Times<\/em>; March 20, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"342\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug2.jpg 490w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug2-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 85vw, 490px\" \/><figcaption>Taken from <em>YNet<\/em>; March 20, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug3-1024x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2871\" width=\"544\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug3-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug3-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug3-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug3-1200x667.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug3.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 85vw, 544px\" \/><figcaption>Taken from the Jewish <em>Telegraphic Agency<\/em>; March 20, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2872\" width=\"280\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug4.jpg 251w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GodDrug4-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 85vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption>Taken from <em>Naharnet<\/em>; March 20, 2020.  <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether in Brooklyn (USA), Jerusalem (Israel-Palestine), or Tripoli (Lebanon), over-religious people are literally a danger public to others in times of pandemics. The pictures below show people defying strict measures of social distancing, social isolation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}