Found another modification of the Governor’s Stay Home order, set for
release later this week:
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Subjects! His Royal Highness, Timothy Walz the First, proclaims a
modification to Executive Order 20 – 20, requiring Minnesotans to Stay Home.Our computer models demonstrate conclusively, with scientific accuracy
heretofore unknown, that 2.5 million Minnesotan would would die if We
allowed them to go to the polls for elections in November. Our highest
duty is to preserve the lives of all Minnesotans; therefore, We have
regretfully suspended elections for the duration of the emergency. All
office holders will continue in office until elections can be scheduled,
hopefully within the next five years.
We realize this is an unprecedented step, but Minnesota faces an
unprecedented situation. We respectfully request voluntary compliance,
and are establishing concentration camps in the northern portion of the
state for saboteurs, wreckers, kulaks, and resisters.HRH T. Walz the First
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Thought you ought to know
Joe Doakes
Plausible?
Time’ll tell.
Well that’s just crazy. My progressive friends told me, long ago, that Trump will be suspending the 2020 election because that’s what dictators do.
reader15;
As I pointed out in another comment, these governors that have turned into little Mussolinis, are implementing fascist policies. That also confused me, because I haven’t seen Anti-Fa protesting about actual fascist policies, anywhere.
Whether lives are actually being saved should also be questioned; for with the lockdown and focus on Covid-19 treatment for many other conditions from heart surgery to cancer is being postponed leading to more deaths there, even though that will be hard to quantify. As many are already saying, and putting the reversal of recent increased state
powers to one side, the cost of saving a few lives has started to be life destroying for many others. When you look at it from a generational perspective the young and middle aged are having their lives sacrificed for the older generation.
The interesting study at the end of all of this, whenever that will be, is how so many, particularly in government were influenced by the media and the fear they generated. Also, why no one paid any attention to basic risk management so ventilators and other equipment weren’t available when needed. Everyone knew that a pandemic was a ‘when’ and not an ‘if’.
Good point, E. And I’d like to know why we still have a moratorium on building hospital beds. The Governor said in his initial video that the entire state only had 235 ICU beds and no plans to immediately make more, which justified the lockdown to slow the spread of the virus to delay the surge in cases from overwhelming those 235 beds.
In his second video, explaining the extension, the Governor said we could ramp up to 3,000 beds within 72 hours, but that still left us thousands of beds short of the initial death toll (“upwards of 74,000 dead”) and we still didn’t have enough ventilators or masks; hence, the lockdown must continue. There still was no plan in place, they were thinking of looking into the possibility of using prisons, or maybe motels.
Liberals endless exhort us to trust the experts, they know better than the rest of us what should be done. How’s that working out for us?
It’s always interesting, JD, how that position of “expert” never seems to involve any actual accomplishments that would indicate any form of expertise. The position of expert seems to be more related to occupying a position in “the bureaucracy” at a random time and place.
I think the current predicament shows the value of good leaders. Unfortunately around the world there are more bad ones than ever.
States are seeing their revenue fall off of a cliff. They have a lot of incentive to reopen their economies ASAP.
If you thought that the month of March was bad, wait until the figures for April comes out.
Who needs an economy when the Fed just prints $6 trillion out of thin air to prop up the stock market.
Here’s something interesting – I’m sure it’s nothing – the Strib has not updated is coronavirus stats for a couple of days.
https://www.startribune.com/coronavirus-covid-19-minnesota-tracker-map-county-data/568712601/
These are the official numbers (I have an acquaintance in LE that confirms), but I do not know why the stats have not been updated since Monday @ 1700. Could the numbers be failing to show good reason for the statewide house arrest? Especially as how where I live, the numbers have been in the single digits (including 0) for my and the surrounding counties.
… for the last 2 weeks.
Emery,
Or Planned Parenthood or the Kennedy Center or the media propaganda wing or green energy. Should I go on or are you done with your inane comments? Oh, wait…never mind. I know the answer to that.
Personally I think that Walz has done a great job, but if he, or anyone else, suspends elections there will be riots in the street I will be a part of
The formula to calculate the components of GNP is Y = C + I + G + X + Z.
GNP = Consumption + Investment + Government + X (net exports) + Z (net income earned by domestic residents from overseas investments minus net income earned by foreign residents from domestic investments).
Won’t all the G help the final number?
Emery you do realize that if that bill wasnt passed wed most likely be talking about a Great Depression according to most of the talking heads on CNBC? Who arent exactly partisan. Then again you’d probably like that since it would get Trump out of office and wed probably get someone to the left of FDR in office
PoD;
Except that Wally wouldn’t share his data or his models. If we look at how the Dakota Governors handled it, I think that Minnesota could have done that, too. If he pushes this until football season starts, I predict mass civil unrest.
POD: it’s been a while — hope all is well with you and your family.
Nationalization of the US economy picks up pace. China will have freer market capitalism very soon now. Next stop for the Fed is to buy the S&P. I don’t say it is wrong. But please don’t pretend the US is a capitalist economy any longer.
Regarding the # of hospital beds, it’s struck me for decades that there are fairly significant areas of the state that do not have an accessible ER or obstetrics ward, and the current regime is causing those that are open (e.g. Austin, Albert Lea) to be closed.
Maybe it’s time to consider the possibility that a bit more margin in terms of facilities might be just the ticket to keeping those who need ER and obstetrics services alive and healthy, and that these outstate facilities might just be a great option for keeping patients alive in the case of epidemics and/or mass injury events. I can imagine a town even owning a dozen or so small residences that could be rented out at most times, but used for housing for nurses and such in case of the local hospital becoming the quarantine site during an epidemic. Let’s face facts; capital is one of the cheapest things in medicine, and if you can spread the same number of doctors and nurses among more facilities in an epidemic, that’s golden.
But of course, big government types like big things, because obviously everything needs to be powered by a big steam engine, just like the trolleys of 100 years ago, never mind that Benz, Diesel, and Ford made that model obsolete….just about a century ago.
bosshoss, outside of the cities I would agree, but we have a metro area that has the combined population of MT, ND AND SD combined .
Emery the last time the US had a true Capitalist economy was when the rubber barons were essentially running the economy. Everything now is a hybrid of some form and has been for the better part of a century since the Federal reserve was created.
Everything seems to be working out as I have foretold. With covid-19 sick and dead resembling, more and more, a seasonal flu, people are chafing against the enforced lockdown. State governments have seen their revenues drop precipitously. Many states are imposing pay cuts on unionized government employees.
And the justification for the lockdown fades more each day.
It will not continue. Trump is talking about lifting some restrictions in some states on May 1st.
I hate to make predictions. So consider this my mostly uninformed opinion.
It won’t take until May 1st.
^^ “”Everything seems to be working out as I have foretold. With covid-19 sick and dead resembling, more and more, a seasonal flu”]
I’m certain Boris Johnson would beg to differ.
It’s not difficult to see what might have happened had even fewer precautions been taken.
MP, I disagree slightly because if we did nothing there would be a much higher body count, but we have no way of knowing, I personally don’t know if opening up before May 1st is feasible but I do know that it cant go beyond that without things getting very, very ugly.
Emery on April 15, 2020 at 1:35 pm said: “Next stop for the Fed is to buy the S&P.”
Do you actually have any idea what that would cost?
Thank goodness we can print money. Otherwise we’d be in huge trouble.
Clueless……