The Chief of Staff to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz tells the state’s Department of Health that the Department’s numbers on how covid was spreading were “less useful than what I expected” because “these numbers are small". The Commissioner of Health said, in turn, that “people look at the primary case numbers and think those are small impacts that don’t justify the dial backs we propose". She urges her staff to engage in “creative thinking”.
The governor wanted to order restrictions on “social gatherings, weddings, funerals", but the Department of Health’s data on origin of covid infections showed such a small number coming from those events that people wouldn’t buy the governor’s proposed shutdown. So the Department of Health was encouraged to calculate second and third generation infections on into the future–“generations of transmission”–to make the numbers look bigger.
Politicians who want to exert ever-greater control over our lives have consistently misrepresented and exaggerated data relating to covid in order to instill fear and to justify harsh measures that have damaged the quality of life of many millions of Americans. There is little or no evidence that extreme covid shutdowns did any material good, but we know they did a great deal of harm.
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“Creative thinking” - ha! Yes, they should all get an A+ for that! They’ve done nothing but LIE from the beginning, because that’s all this has ever been about. A lie to prop up their flimsy excuse to seize more power.
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This one from Australia:
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Ha! Must have been hard to report that with a straight face! When they catch the murderer, I guess they’ll have to jail him for causing a covid death by shooting!
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COVID-19 is more dangerous than we realized!
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