Here in Minneapolis, the dark blue belly of the Nanny State Beast, traffic is growing on a daily basis. It took me two minutes to get out of my driveway on Friday! Now that the weather is getting nice, the crowds at the lakes are reaching normal levels as well. I'll bet that a few miles out of town, businesses are open and you can even get a haircut. Finding out which of your neighbors are snot nosed weaselly little snitches is just a silver lining.
This occurred to me several weeks ago but I haven't had time to write about it:
If my Mom's routine physical, which took place on March 9th, had been scheduled for one week later, she'd be dead now.
It was at that physical that her doctor discovered she had a blood disorder: her white and red cell counts had fallen off the charts and her platelets were non existent. She was walking around with water in her veins. Ice water? my daughter asked at the time. No, more like Holy Water, her cousin answered. I went with her on Thursday, the 12th, when she got her first blood transfusion.
She was scheduled to get a bone marrow biopsy on 3/16, a Monday. By that day, everyone was freaking out over the virus and the hospitals were beginning to prepare for the worst. When she arrived for her biopsy, she had a fever. They tested her for flu, pneumonia and Coronavirus. She was whisked into isolation and kept there for the next 14 days. Things were so chaotic back then that we didn't get a result from her C19 test until the 6th day of her isolation. Positive.
So; if her physical had been the 16th, it likely would have been cancelled. Even if they had done the blood work, who knows if the labs that were quickly being over run with testing for Wuflu would have prioritized hers? Because she hadn't been tested for the virus du jour at that time, she would have simply remained at home. She would not have had that blood transfusion. She would have died within a week or two. We can assume she had already been infected with the virus but without the appointment for a biopsy, she never would have been tested, put in isolation and treated for her blood disorder. Then, post mortem testing would have shown she'd been infected with C19.
She would have been classified as a C19 death.
Which would have been a lie.
Sure, she had it. She never got very sick, being in the hospital, where they closely monitored her. But if she hadn't had her blood disorder treated, she would have died pretty quickly. By the time her positive test result came back, her fever had been gone for days and her blood numbers were on the rise. For a happy few days, we thought perhaps the virus was the cause of her disorder but no, it was just coincidental.
So there's the story of one lucky patient who fit the entire C19 profile for mortality; 85 years old, on meds for gout, diabetes and high blood pressure. Oh, and MDS so her bones weren't making any blood, so she had basically NO IMMUNE SYSTEM.
She lives because of good timing and a doctor who insisted she get tested and treated for something besides C19.
Two months later, the state is mostly still shut down and health care facilities are laying off employees and teetering on the edge of bankruptcy because our Lying Idiot of a Governor doesn't have the sense to be guided by actual events rather than his stupid, fictional models.
Over 80% of the 'deaths' from C19 in our state have been patients like my Mom. Elderly, with underlying health issues. Who knows how many of them would have died even without C19? Who knows how many of them died of their other issues even with C19? These aren't questions our lickspittle press will ask and the lying overlords in government aren't volunteering any answers.
I haven't lost my job. Jay hasn't lost his job. In fact, by some kind of fluke, not a single member of my immediate family has become unemployed while something like half a million of my fellow Minnesotans have filed for unemployment.
But I'm still mad as hell.
The state shut down was based on fiction.
The manner of counting deaths by C19 very suspect.
The politicians and press are more intent on keeping people frightened than telling the truth. There is 0% chance of otherwise healthy young people or kids being hospitalized much less killed by this bug. Yet we closed the schools and there's talk of not opening them in September. This is asinine.
In the name of Health Care, who knows how many are dying?
How many tumors have gone undetected since doctors stopped seeing patients on a regular basis?
How many diseases have gone undiagnosed?
How many conditions untreated?
My Mom was lucky.
MDS will eventually kill her. And because she once tested positive for C19, she will be dishonestly counted in the statistics for how many this pandemic killed.
IT'S A LIE.
How many haven't been so lucky?
Power and Money.
Governor Walz has been exercising his power to choose who may work and who may not. Who is deemed 'essential' and who is not. Who may eat and who may die. Who may be autonomous and independent and who must be brought under the wing of government dependence. He's a leftist. You think he doesn't know his policies will cause great economic hardship in the state? You think he considers that a bad thing? He doesn't. He thinks being able to take care of millions of Minnesotans with welfare, unemployment and food stamps makes him a compassionat man. This isn't democracy, it's Munchausen by Proxy. That his own policy caused the need are dots he'll never bother to connect.
Governor Walz has done fare more harm to the state of Minnesota than any virus or plague ever will.