{"id":75735,"date":"2020-11-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75735"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:23","slug":"you-have-questions-they-have-no-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75735","title":{"rendered":"You Have Questions.  They Have No Answers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Governor Walz, I have some questions.<\/p><p>In your press conference announcing the Stay Home order, you said the<br>Covid virus would kill 75,000 Minnesotans if we did nothing but only<br>50,000 if we implemented the strictest lock-down.\u00a0 We needed to do that<br>to &#8216;flatten the curve&#8217; so ICU rooms wouldn&#8217;t be overwhelmed.\u00a0 Two weeks<br>later, you announced we had ramped up ICU rooms from 235 to 3,000 but we<br>still needed ventilators, which were on back-order.<\/p><p>Since then, we&#8217;ve been in continuous lock-down and now have the mask<br>mandate but ICU rooms are not overwhelmed with Covid cases; indeed,<br>hospitals are closing their doors for lack of patients.<\/p><p>Your administration gives daily briefings on the spread of Covid cases<br>and daily reported deaths as if these were bad things.\u00a0 But weren&#8217;t they<br>part of the plan all along?\u00a0 We locked down to Slow the spread, not to<br>Eliminate the spread.\u00a0 We knew people would die, we just wanted them to<br>die more slowly.\u00a0 Your plan is working perfectly.\u00a0 Why aren&#8217;t you happy?<\/p><p>Which brings up the next point: when do you anticipate the lock-down<br>will end?\u00a0 Right now, closings and quarantines seem to be based on case<br>rates, not ICU rates.\u00a0 I understand that in theory, more cases could<br>lead to more ICU admissions which could overwhelm the system; but so<br>far, the statistics show that&#8217;s not happening.\u00a0 We have plenty of excess<br>ICU bed capacity.<\/p><p>If all goes according to plan, eventually, everybody in the state will<br>have Covid but most of them will neither display symptoms nor require<br>hospitalization.\u00a0 Is that what you&#8217;re waiting for?\u00a0 If so, shouldn&#8217;t we<br>speed up the process by lifting all restrictions now?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s neither about science nor logic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Joe knows this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Walz, I have some questions. In your press conference announcing the Stay Home order, you said theCovid virus would kill 75,000 Minnesotans if we did nothing but only50,000 if we implemented the strictest lock-down.\u00a0 We needed to do thatto &#8216;flatten the curve&#8217; so ICU rooms wouldn&#8217;t be overwhelmed.\u00a0 Two weekslater, you announced we had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,2,51],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-75735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-minnesota-politics","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735","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=75735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75744,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735\/revisions\/75744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}