{"id":75325,"date":"2020-09-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75325"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:23","slug":"end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75325","title":{"rendered":"End Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Let’s assume Governor Walz’ response to Covid-19 is not part of a larger
Democrat hoax, not an attempt to frighten voters into believing
President Trump has failed them, not a coordinated attack on the
American way of life.<\/p>

Let’s assume Governor Walz truly has Minnesotans’ best interests at
heart.\u00a0 That’s why he declared a Peacetime Emergency.\u00a0 That’s why he
implemented one of the strictest Stay Home orders in the nation.\u00a0 That’s
why he implemented the mask mandate and why he refuses to relinquish his
emergency powers.\u00a0 Assume that’s all true.<\/p>

What’s his end game?\u00a0 When does the Peacetime Emergency end – when the
virus is defeated?\u00a0 How will we know when we’ve won?<\/p>

Walz was on television September 3rd reminding viewers that masks are
mandatory to prevent the spread of the virus.\u00a0 But his own Health
Commissioner admitted days earlier that we cannot stop the spread, we
can only hope to manage it at some unspecified level of transmission.\u00a0
Oh, and if you are sick, wearing a mask doesn\u2019t protect the people you
interact with.<\/p>

So we know the virus will continue to spread and that’s okay, just not
as fast as it’s presently spreading.\u00a0 Why does that matter?\u00a0 The curve
is flat.\u00a0 No hospital is overwhelmed.\u00a0 There was no surge.\u00a0 The
refrigerated warehouse bought to store plague corpses, sits empty.\u00a0
We’re at fewer than 2,000 deaths – even crediting the phony numbers –
which is 72,000 deaths short of the computer model prediction. No child
has died, no teen, but schools are closed.\u00a0 Daily deaths are in the
single digits which is indistinguishable from the normal death rate (123
Minnesotans die every day, from all causes).<\/p>

“Cases” tell us that people are carrying the virus in their bodies, but
people carry around lots of viruses.\u00a0 The rhinovirus causes the common
cold.\u00a0 Herpes simplex virus causes cold sores. Everybody has them and
they flare up occasionally, but we don’t count “cases” of them because .
. . nobody cares.\u00a0 People don’t die of a cold sore.<\/p>

And they’re no longer dying of Covid-19, either.\u00a0 The vulnerable
population has died off.\u00a0 The hardy survived, same as every epidemic
throughout the history of humankind. We don’t need to keep fighting the
virus.\u00a0 We’ve won.<\/p>

Time to declare victory and move on.<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

All of those assumptions at the beginning of the article were for purposes of argument. I will give Governor Klink the benefit of no such doubt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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