{"id":73836,"date":"2020-04-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73836"},"modified":"2020-04-12T20:20:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T01:20:55","slug":"paging-governor-walz-call-from-mr-hipaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73836","title":{"rendered":"Paging Governor Walz!  Call From Mr. HIPAA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/gov-walz-issues-executive-order-providing-covid-19-locations-to-first-responders\/569553122\/\">has decreed that the locations of Covid patients will be given to first responders<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not immigration status.  Heavens, no.  That&#8217;d put a &#8220;chlling effect&#8221; on their lives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But letting them know if they have Covid? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Under Walz\u2019s order, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) will share the addresses of COVID-19 infections that are still contagious with the Department of Public Safety (DPS), which will distribute the data to 911 dispatch centers. Dispatchers will share information with first responders called to one of the addresses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The order goes into effect immediately and lasts the duration of the state of emergency declared by Walz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The virus had infected 1,336 Minnesotans as of Friday and killed 57.<\/p><p><em>\u201cThis decision is not taken lightly,\u201d said Walz\u2019s Friday order. \u201c\u2026We must implement safeguards to ensure that no one abuses this data.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Meaning:   we need safeguards &#8211; but the policy is in effect anyway.  Feel better? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know me &#8211; always looking for the silver lining.  Maybe this is it &#8211; the ACLU is actually fretting about civil liberties again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota has opposed sharing the data, noting that it won\u2019t prevent infection because the count of positive cases is underrepresented due to a shortage of tests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And boy howdy, do I ever wanna take a Covid test, so I can get a big scarlet &#8220;C&#8221; on my lapel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, when they&#8217;re available.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor has decreed that the locations of Covid patients will be given to first responders. Not immigration status. Heavens, no. That&#8217;d put a &#8220;chlling effect&#8221; on their lives. But letting them know if they have Covid? Under Walz\u2019s order, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) will share the addresses of COVID-19 infections that are [&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":[],"class_list":["post-73836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73840,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73836\/revisions\/73840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}