{"id":39298,"date":"2023-03-14T22:03:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T02:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=39298"},"modified":"2023-03-14T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T02:03:23","slug":"get-on-the-quarantrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/get-on-the-quarantrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Get on the Quarantrain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/trolley.jpg\" title=\"which way will you throw the switch?\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The BBC recently published a study that claimed the mental health crisis from the pandemic minimal. The study was deeply flawed and obviously wrong, so the internet immediately began dunking on this blatant piece of propaganda. One of the most popular rebuttals was to list the insane things you did during quaratine, from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gary__day\/status\/1253060963697332224\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener\">culinary adventures<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thisjenlewis\/status\/1634323190351822848\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener\">recursive puzzles<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dgellis0907\/status\/1634586912886345729\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener\">unhinged puppetry<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/louceph\/status\/1634572551757221890\" target=\"twit\" rel=\"noopener\">watching <i>Morbius<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Among the best, though, had to be Jim Merullo, who, quote, \"recreated every dumb idea in my brain in HO scale in my basement.\" That's where the Trolley Problem at the top of the page comes from. He's collected photos of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmerullo.com\/quarantrain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all his silly little builds<\/a> in one place, so go see all the references to bands and books and TV and more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/sneed.jpg\" title=\"Formerly Chuck's\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - December '14\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/flippin-through-previews-december-14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - December '14<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Wanted: Larry Burns action figure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/wanted-larry-burns-action-figure\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Wanted: Larry Burns action figure<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Jingle Bells, Bartman Smells\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/jingle-bells-bartman-smells\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jingle Bells, Bartman Smells<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Psylocke addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/psylocke-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Psylocke addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - January '06\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/flippin-through-previews-january-06\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - January '06<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC recently published a study that claimed the mental health crisis from the pandemic minimal. The study was deeply flawed and obviously wrong, so the internet immediately began dunking on this blatant piece of propaganda. One of the most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/get-on-the-quarantrain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-39298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-simpsons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39298"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39316,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39298\/revisions\/39316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}