Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Setting off a nuclear bomb does immediate damage, but also blasts radioactive dust into the atmosphere which will eventually settle out of the air causing deaths from radiation poisoning.\u00a0 The death toll from fall-out can be far greater than the death toll from the blast itself.
Governor Walz’ Executive Orders set off a nuclear bomb on Minnesota last Spring.\u00a0 The immediate blast destroyed civil liberties – placed the entire state under house arrest, banned religion, speech, assembly, and ordinary employment for all except favored groups – but the fall-out damage has yet to be fully realized.\u00a0
A family member fell over July 4th weekend, striking her head.\u00a0 The Urgency Room doctors in Eagan wanted her admitted to a hospital for observation but there were no rooms available at Regions, United or St. John’s in Maplewood.\u00a0 She ended up at Woodwinds in Woodbury.\u00a0 She received excellent treatment and is making a fine recovery but the point is beds.\u00a0 There are no hospital beds.
It’s not Covid.\u00a0 It’s fall-out from\u00a0Covid. Walz banned non-emergency medical treatments to keep hospital beds open for the giant surge of Covid cases which were confidently predicted by the U of M computer model.\u00a0 Hospitals lost millions of dollars every day as beds sat empty. Marginally profitable facilities were closed to save money.\u00a0 When Bethesda and St. Joseph’s closed in St. Paul, they took 500 beds off the inventory.\u00a0 Remember our talk about Second Order effects?\u00a0 This is one of them.\u00a0 Prohibit hospitals from making money treating non-Covid patients, hospitals close their doors, all patients go untreated.\u00a0
We’re going to see more fall-out.\u00a0 Unemployment\u00a0remains high because it’s just as profitable to sit home as go to work.\u00a0 Evictions and foreclosures are halted now but will explode when the moratorium is lifted, adding to the homeless problem.\u00a0 Business bankruptcies are already on the rise.\u00a0
Was it really worth all this so Democrats could ‘fortify’ the election to get rid of the Bad Orange Man?\u00a0
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n“Government is the least effective possible way to manage scarce resources”
— Kevin Williamson<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf this past year, especially in re healthcare, hasn’t emphasized this to you, then I question whether any emphasis will ever work. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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