{"id":74064,"date":"2020-05-08T06:49:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T11:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74064"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:43","slug":"surprising-nobody-whos-been-paying-attention-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74064","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Nobody (Who’s Been Paying Attention At All)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Unexpectedly”, Minnesota’s neighbors – well, at least the ones run by people who came up through the world of business, rather than public employment or the non-profit\/industrial complex – are kicking Minnesota’s passive-aggressive tush at dealing with Coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could look at it in terms of deaths per million (South Dakota is 1\/3 Minnesota’s rate; North Dakota, half). You could look at it in terms of ICU utilization (all are doing all right, but it’s interesting to imagine how much better the lower-density states would be doing but for the ravages of Obamacare on rural healthcare). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, yeah – and testing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which Governor Walz, for about the tenth time in six weeks put out there as the dispositive factor in re-opening, notwithstanding the fact that Minnesota’s bureaucracy is no better at un-flattening the curve with tests than it is at managing its budget?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, what do you think<\/a>? Numbers as of yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Dakota 54,330
South Dakota 22,009
Nebraska 21,253
Iowa 21,206
Wisconsin 17,695
Minnesota 17,625<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bear in mind, progs in the audience – this is in terms of tests per million<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The businesspeople – who largely happen to be Republicans, but that’s more an effect than a cause – are doing the job better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suppose Minnesota will learn the lesson? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Unexpectedly”, Minnesota’s neighbors – well, at least the ones run by people who came up through the world of business, rather than public employment or the non-profit\/industrial complex – are kicking Minnesota’s passive-aggressive tush at dealing with Coronavirus. You could look at it in terms of deaths per million (South Dakota is 1\/3 Minnesota’s rate; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,20,21,2,129,13],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-democrats","category-midwest","category-minnesota-politics","category-unions","category-republicans","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74064","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=74064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74066,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74064\/revisions\/74066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}