{"id":8732,"date":"2020-04-06T17:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/06\/opinion-take-covid-19-seriously-the-life-you-save-may-be-mine\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:44","slug":"opinion-take-covid-19-seriously-the-life-you-save-may-be-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/opinion-take-covid-19-seriously-the-life-you-save-may-be-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Take COVID-19 Seriously, the life you save may be mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/04\/05\/take-covid-19-seriously-life-you-save-may-mine-coronavirus-pandemic\/2939109001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a>, Carmela Epright, professor of philosophy, used data and a personal perspective to\u00a0 challenge the notion that the dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic are being sensationalized, and the virus isn&#8217;t a serious threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">&#8220;Statements such as this are dangerously misinformed,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;This pandemic will become much worse before it gets better, will not end soon, will only spread faster if we deny its danger, and has a deadly trajectory unaffected by arbitrary dates established by politicians. I know this both as a medical ethicist and as a person with an autoimmune disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed published by The Greenville News, Carmela Epright, professor of philosophy, used data and a personal perspective to\u00a0 challenge the notion that the dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":8733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-philosophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}