{"id":74748,"date":"2020-07-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74748"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:00:43","slug":"the-most-heinous-crime-of-this-heinous-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74748","title":{"rendered":"The Most Heinous Crime Of This Heinous Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The “Mask Mandate” – which, as of a week ago, was of such crucial “scientific” importance that it was on the table in negotiations about the bonding bill – will become official policy as of Friday midnight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only long after Covid peaked in Minnesota, but long after most Americans led the world in voluntarily <\/em>adopting masks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Which is more or less what I said a couple weeks ago<\/a> – give Americans good information, a transparent request, and clear statement of interests, and we’ll do what needs to be done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the thing – as we’ve noted, Covid is a disease spread by density. It might be a red-county meat-packing plant, or a major-metro bar, restaurant, open-plan office, bus or train, but the correlation between packing people together for extended time and the spread of Covid seems pretty clear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here in Minnesota, about half the counties have had no Covid deaths. Outside the metro areas – Twin Cities, Saint Cloud, Duluth and Rochester – and a few rural meat-packing facilities, the disease is just plain rare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Majority Leader Gazelka had the termerity to point this out – that perhaps a one-size fits all state mandate for a disease for which one size does not <\/em>fit all, makes absolutely no sense.
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Governor Klink’s response:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.@GovTimWalz<\/a> on GOP Senate Leader Paul Gazelka's push back that masks shouldn't be required in rural parts of the state where there aren't a huge number of cases: "He's wrong. He's wrong on the science."<\/p>— Catharine Richert (@CatRichert) July 22, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>