{"id":79597,"date":"2021-09-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79597"},"modified":"2021-09-27T18:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T23:15:01","slug":"shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79597","title":{"rendered":"Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Pioneer Press and MPR report that the state of Minnesota is \u201cselling\u201d the former Bix warehouse &#8211; purchased in 2019 to serve as a \u201cback up morgue\u201d for the COVID thousands fatalities the state was predicting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And since this is a government operation, you may be assured that when we say \u201cselling\u201c, we mean \u201cshifting around the books, to further serve as a wealth transfer\u201c:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> The state purchased the refrigerated warehouse at 1415 L\u2019Orient St. and the five acres of land it sits on from private ownership last year for nearly $5.48 million. Under pressure from St. Paul and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2020\/06\/05\/ramsey-county-opposes-temporary-morgue-in-north-end-notes-neighbors-fearing-ghosts-in-letter-to-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ramsey County officials opposed to the idea of warehousing bodies<\/a> there, the state used the site instead as storage for personal protective equipment. On Tuesday, the board of the Port Authority will meet to vote on whether to purchase the site \u2014 which now sits vacant \u2014 from the state for $5.65 million, the property\u2019s current appraised value and the purchase amount required under state statute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservative social media or portraying this as a \u201cboondoggle\u201c. Nothing could be further than the truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you ignore the conspiracy theory (launched and spread by me) that Ken Martin stored John Thompson there to keep them out of the public eye after the Hugo incident before the 2020 election, the morgue served its primary purpose; as a prop in setting an ominous backdrop for the public health security theater the state has been subjecting us to for the last 20 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pioneer Press and MPR report that the state of Minnesota is \u201cselling\u201d the former Bix warehouse &#8211; purchased in 2019 to serve as a \u201cback up morgue\u201d for the COVID thousands fatalities the state was predicting. And since this is a government operation, you may be assured that when we say \u201cselling\u201c, we mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,144,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79598,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79597\/revisions\/79598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}