{"id":78286,"date":"2021-06-10T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78286"},"modified":"2021-06-09T09:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:20:52","slug":"vc-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78286","title":{"rendered":"VC Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Looking back with a year of experience, it&#8217;s clear the COVID crisis in Minnesota is over, if it ever began.<\/p><p>70,000 Minnesotans did not die. There was no surge of cases. Hospitals were not overwhelmed, nor funeral homes: the refrigerated warehouse sits empty.\u00a0 Holiday revelers did not die in droves, nor Spring Breakers, nor school children.\u00a0 Active cases are in the 300 range, hospitalizations less than 100, out of a population of 5,000,000.\u00a0 Covid is still a threat to the frail elderly in nursing homes, but poses no general public health emergency.<\/p><p>Why hasn&#8217;t Governor Walz ended the Peacetime Emergency and returned power to the people, as he promised he would?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Because it was never about public health. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Looking back with a year of experience, it&#8217;s clear the COVID crisis in Minnesota is over, if it ever began. 70,000 Minnesotans did not die. There was no surge of cases. Hospitals were not overwhelmed, nor funeral homes: the refrigerated warehouse sits empty.\u00a0 Holiday revelers did not die in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78286","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=78286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78287,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78286\/revisions\/78287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}