The models that warned us we were looking at 73,000 deaths really were off by several orders of magnitude and our Lying Governor admitted as much this week. I guess we were never supposed to take the ridiculous, overblown, hysterical number of 73,000 seriously. It was fake but true, as they say; to prove a point.
The point being that Minnesotans are a bunch of sheep, willing to take orders as long as you frighten them sufficiently.
Well, point taken!
Now that we see that the actual numbers in the real world are nothing like what the models predicted, can we all just admit we over reacted, rescind the stay at home orders, the lockdown, open up the economy and all get back to work before we've completely depleted our life savings?
Nope.
Not in a one party (and that party is DEMOCRAT) state when the whole point of that party is to control the people at all times. No, even though the numbers of dead are less than .001% of what was predicted, we're going to REMAIN UNDER HOUSE ARREST for three more weeks.
Why?
WHY?
WHY??
"Because 'social distancing' is working!"
BULLSHIT.
"Social distancing" was built into the bogus model and was only supposed to lower the death count from 74,000 to 50,000. By their own calculations, if we hadn't closed anything down, including bars and restaurants (cuz sick octogenarians really don't get out that much), we'd be looking at about 90 dead. ( 50,000 is about 1/3 of 74,000. 60 is 1/3 of 90. That's called 'math'. It used to be taught in schools.) By the end of summer, we could be looking at possibly 200 dead. For this, we put tens of thousands out of work?
And I'm not going to use the bullshit euphemism of 'social distancing' either. This is house arrest, which the state of Minnesota is using to divide and conquer its own population. This is State control of not only the means of production (garden stores may open, bait shops may not) but of each and every one of us. Why are we going along with it?!
Standing apart from people when you have a cold or flu or any other sneezy, potentially contagious bug is common courtesy. Placing the entire state under house arrest and arbitrarily deciding who gets to earn a living is tyranny.
Governor Walz THE Liar admitted that the models were bullshit but he didn't lift any of his anti-American orders to stay home and go broke. I suppose because like the Leftist he is, he just enjoys lording this power over us.
You know he only has this power if we let him.
And our one party (completely misnamed 'democrat')state is letting him.
The Founding Fathers (and Mothers) would be ashamed of us.
I'm ashamed of us.
It's not just the numbers, although they're bad enough. Less than 100 deaths in our state in the five weeks since this thing became news in the US. In Jonah Goldberg's latest column, he says "Just because a cashier makes a math error when giving you change doesn’t mean he’s trying to steal from you." I agree with the statement on its face, people make mistakes but when the cashier charges you $74,000.00 for something clearly marked $60.00, and then insists on that payment even when you point out the mistake; he's not just trying to steal from you, he's robbing you blind!
That we smothered our economy and put people out of work over such numbers is mind boggling. Worse still is who the dead are: folks over 85.
You know what very few people in their 80s do?
Reach 90.
In fact, it's pretty much axiomatic that dying is what octogenarians are best at.
No one wants to say it because it sounds heartless and cruel but it's not. I don't just 'love' my parents, who are 85 and 92; they are still two of my favorite people on earth. I am glad that my Mom survived C19 but her chances of making it to my Dad's age are still not great, not statistically. And Dad came through our personal C19 crisis unscathed but the chances of him living to 100 are still quite small. This is neither heartless nor cruel but merely a realistic view of human life.
I design needlepoint. Most of my customers are late, late middle aged or even old. I not only love them, I depend on them. Old folks are more interesting than young because they've been through so much more. But they die. Maybe it's because of my professional life that I accept that. I can't tell you how many of my favorite customers have died. THAT'S THE WAY LIFE IS.
Although, since my Dad fell and broke his neck and didn't die and my mom survived C19 while having no immune system, I suspect that my parents may actually be super heroes, so it's probably not fair to base any assumptions on their particular cases.
Someday, both my parents will die. So will yours, if they haven't already. Someday, I'll die. So will you.
One of my favorite episodes of the X-Files is called Tithonus, about a man whom death has forgotten. At 149 years, he's hunting death, trying to catch its attention because 149 years of this life is too much. He wants to know the Great Thing that everyone else gets to experience.
Barring murder or a freak accident, dying in one's 80s is not a tragedy; it's a triumph!
You know what is a tragedy? Dying alone in a nursing home or hospital, unable to see or say goodbye to one's children, grandchildren or great grandchildren because the STATE has everyone under house arrest.
This is the fate we're consigning what is left of the Greatest Generation, perhaps the last to understand the words
"LIVE FREE OR DIE."