{"id":74052,"date":"2020-05-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74052"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:43","slug":"just-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74052","title":{"rendered":"Just One Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Governor Walz killed a man today.\u00a0 He won’t be prosecuted for it. He’s
safe behind papers and attorneys and statutes.\u00a0 But the man is dead by
Governor Walz’ act, same as if he’d done the deed in person.<\/p>

Governor Walz killed a health care worker today.\u00a0 The dead man was laid
off from a hospital.\u00a0 They couldn’t afford to keep him. They were losing
too much money since the Governor banned non-emergency medical treatment
to keep hospital beds open for the surge of Covid patients that never
came.\u00a0 But for the shut-down, the dead man would have been at work,
caring for patients, doing what he loved.<\/p>

Governor Walz killed a father today.\u00a0 The dead man was married, with
children ranging from 3 to 9 years old.\u00a0 His wife is still in shock.
Family is staying with her.\u00a0 The older ones are quiet, trying to
understand.\u00a0 The little ones hear: “Daddy’s gone to Heaven” and ask:
“Yes, but when is he coming home?”\u00a0 They don’t understand why he’s never
coming home.\u00a0 None of us do. There will be no visitation, no memorial.\u00a0
They are illegal.<\/p>

Governor Walz killed a son today.\u00a0 The dead man’s parents still live in
the house he grew up in.\u00a0 The father, in his 90’s, crying, asking, “Why
him, Lord?\u00a0 Why not me? He had so much to live for.” The Governor claims
he had to shut down everything to save lives. But the lives saved are
those like the father – old, sitting at home, waiting to die – which are
never weighed against the lives lost.<\/p>

Governor Walz killed a brother today. He was the smartest of us all: honors graduate, advanced degrees, quick with a quip but heart as big as the world. He was my baby brother.<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

My condolences to Joe’s family – to say the least. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pass it around. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Walz killed a man today.\u00a0 He won’t be prosecuted for it. He’ssafe behind papers and attorneys and statutes.\u00a0 But the man is dead byGovernor Walz’ act, same as if he’d done the deed in person. Governor Walz killed a health care worker today.\u00a0 The dead man was laidoff from a hospital.\u00a0 They couldn’t afford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,30,2],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-liberty","category-minnesota-politics","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74052","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=74052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74055,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74052\/revisions\/74055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}