{"id":74497,"date":"2020-06-18T05:51:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T10:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74497"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:03:05","slug":"promises-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74497","title":{"rendered":"Promises, Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>We were PROMISED 1,440 dead from Covid by the end of May and a huge surge in cases this\u00a0Summer.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not even close on deaths and there&#8217;s no evidence of a surge,\u00a0here or anywhere else in the nation.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/06\/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\/06\/12\/latest-on-covid19-in-mn&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592303129514000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGm_WNCBIpEsKSiuhRIJ-jh8lVtgg\">And hospitalizations are declining.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>So is the Health Department admitting it was wrong, wrong, and wrong?\u00a0 \u00a0Of course not.\u00a0 The linked article has several charts but notice the one that&#8217;s missing &#8211; the chart we saw in every press conference &#8211; the &#8220;flatten the curve&#8221; chart.\u00a0 That&#8217;s because there never was a curve to flatten.\u00a0 We never got close to overwhelming the system.\u00a0 The epidemic was basically over before we noticed it.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>A million Minnesotans lost their jobs and we still can&#8217;t get back to normal.\u00a0 For what?\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For the government&#8217;s power to exert&#8230;well power.  That&#8217;s what. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were PROMISED 1,440 dead from Covid by the end of May and a huge surge in cases this\u00a0Summer.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not even close on deaths and there&#8217;s no evidence of a surge,\u00a0here or anywhere else in the nation.\u00a0\u00a0And hospitalizations are declining. \u00a0 So is the Health Department admitting it was wrong, wrong, and wrong?\u00a0 \u00a0Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,2],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-minnesota-politics","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74497","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=74497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74498,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74497\/revisions\/74498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}