{"id":74161,"date":"2020-05-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74161"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:43","slug":"timing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74161","title":{"rendered":"Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/05\/12\/latest-on-covid19-in-mn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/05\/12\/latest-on-covid19-in-mn&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589805833351000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHKUTJ_fBAK5JirVT7BY4dn5n4xgg\">Newest Covid statistics.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>10% of the people tested got the virus.\u00a0 1.5% of those who got the virus, needed hospitalization. One-half of one percent of those who got the virus, died from it.\u00a0 80% of the deaths are in nursing homes.\u00a0 No child has died from it.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The computer model estimates from the press conference in March, when\u00a0the Governor imposed the lock down, were that 2.5 million Minnesotans would get it, of all ages, from 6 months to 91 years; that 15% of those who get it would require hospitalization; 5% of them would require ICU care; 1% would die.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Testing proves the computer model was wrong.\u00a0 Can we abandon the model, now?\u00a0 Focus our efforts on those who need them, liberate the rest to go back to work so we can pay for it all?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to say &#8220;nothing about Govenor Walz&#8217;s response has anything to do with public health.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But nearly every part of the response &#8211; especially last week&#8217;s luke-warm reopening announcement &#8211; is driven by political expedience.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, most notably, as defiance of the state of emergency burgeons, the expedience of appearing to still be in charge. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newest Covid statistics. 10% of the people tested got the virus.\u00a0 1.5% of those who got the virus, needed hospitalization. One-half of one percent of those who got the virus, died from it.\u00a0 80% of the deaths are in nursing homes.\u00a0 No child has died from it. \u00a0 The computer model estimates from the press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,416,30],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19","category-liberty","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74161","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=74161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74168,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74161\/revisions\/74168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}