- Many Minnesotans suspected for the past year that the Gov. Tim Walz administration was not making decisions based in science when handing down COVID-19 mandates. On Monday, a potential bombshell was dropped.
The Let Them Play MN group that opposed many sports-related pandemic restrictions obtained thousands of pages of internal state e-mails (one in particular was pretty damning - ed.) from last fall and raised concern about one in which a spokesperson advised promoting the pause by connecting youth sports infections to severe COVID-19 cases in long-term care.
"As [people] push back on youth sports and whether they really need to be ended ... we need to more explicitly tie youth sports to LTC. People are going to youth sports, sitting in bleachers, eating popcorn and talking with people around them, cheering, then maybe stopping at a restaurant or bar on the way home, then going to jobs in LTC the following day," said the e-mail by Kate Brickman, a contractor hired to help with state COVID-19 communications to other spokespeople.
This proposal to promote last fall's sports pause became a central point of a state Senate Education Committee hearing Monday, when state Sen. Michelle Benson, R-Ham Lake, said she was "embarrassed" that the Minnesota Department of Health considered such a backward strategy.
"Here's the way it should work: There is data, then there is a decision, then there is communication," she said. "It's not, 'We need a message. Go find me the data that matches it.' "
Even though things are improving significantly on the COVID front here in Minnesota, how much damage was done in halting activities like sports for the sake of covering up the ineptitude in protecting our most vulnerable citizens? FYI, Sen. Benson will be on my radio show this Sunday in the 1:00 hour. If her quotes in this Strib piece are any indication, she'll no doubt have plenty more to say on this weekend's broadcast.
- Longtime Democrat strategist James "Serpent head" Carville recently railed against "wokeness." Said quotes were published by Vox, which is a far left site.
Many Republicans often lament the divisive factions in their party, but it's bean bag compared to the divide between Carville-like moderates and far left progs in the motif of "The Squad." And I am here for it!
- After much speculation that Minnesota would lose a Congressional seat given the most recent census, it appears we have dodged that bullet.
The state held on by the narrowest of margins, Census Acting Director Ron Jarmin said during an online presentation. If the state of New York had counted just 89 more people in the census, he said, it would have vaulted over Minnesota to get the 435th of 435 House seats allotted.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, literally hundreds of elderly people died in New York long-term care facilities due to the incompetence of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In a sense, you could say New York lost a U.S. House seat in no small part because of the actions of its governor.
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