{"id":74664,"date":"2020-07-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74664"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:03:05","slug":"this-is-our-ruling-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74664","title":{"rendered":"This Is Our Ruling Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My MN House rep, Rena Moran, on Twitter yesterday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just heard on the floor that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kdaudt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kdaudt<\/a> Florida has protected the elderly and thus their death totals are lower than Minnesota. Not correct! Florida total death 4514- Minnesota 1510. We could have easily been Florida if <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovTimWalz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LtGovFlanagan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LtGovFlanagan<\/a> had  not stood strong! Thanks Gov!<\/p>&mdash; Rena Moran (@renamoran) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/renamoran\/status\/1283218229364699138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The part Rep. Moran is missing, of course, is that Florida has over four times as many people as Minnesota has.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that when you look in terms of fatalties per million people, it boils down (as of today) to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Minnesota:   276 fatalities per million<\/li><li>Florida:  210 fatalities per million. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now &#8211; does Rep. Moran truly not know the different between raw numbers and per capita numbers? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe.  Maybe not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the typical DFL voter, be they in the Midway or Wayzata, certainly does not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My MN House rep, Rena Moran, on Twitter yesterday: The part Rep. Moran is missing, of course, is that Florida has over four times as many people as Minnesota has. And that when you look in terms of fatalties per million people, it boils down (as of today) to: Minnesota: 276 fatalities per million Florida: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,320],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-mndfl","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74664","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=74664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74665,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74664\/revisions\/74665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}