Posted on 05/02/2022 12:35:10 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
City health officials are “strongly” encouraging Minneapolis residents to put their face masks back on, regardless of vaccination status.
The Minneapolis Health Department said in a Thursday news release that residents should “wear masks in indoor public settings and businesses,” citing an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
The city said its seven-day new case rate has increased from 51 infections per 100,000 people in mid-March to 227 per 100,000. Hospitalizations have increased from 1.9 per 100,000 people to 4.8 per 100,000, which the city describes as “above the caution threshold.”
The city boasted about using “science to guide its public health strategies,” which have “saved lives.”
Minneapolis is located in Hennepin County, which the CDC reports is currently a low-risk county for COVID-19. This designation is based on infection and hospitalization numbers. Two counties, Olmsted and Wabasha, are now considered high risk, while eight are described as medium risk.
The bulk of the high-risk counties are in New York; none are in Florida.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey revoked his mask mandate in late February when cases were trending down. The 7-day new case rate at that time was 135 per 100,000 people.
According to a new CDC study released this week, more than half of American adults and 75% of kids have had COVID-19. In Minnesota, 60% of people have been infected, the study claims.
“To me, the high level of prevalence, especially among younger age groups, highlights the absolute futility of trying to suppress a contagious respiratory virus,” health care veteran Kevin Roche told Power Line.
“Prominent scientists warned us of this,” he continued. “When you think about what the efforts to suppress the virus cost us in so many ways, only to end up with most of the population infected anyway, it should really cause everyone to demand a complete overhaul of public health authorities.”
I was in a Trump supporting area of NJ yesterday and even there a slight majority were wearing face diapers at the store.
Ignore them completely.
I went to the Brewer’s game at American Family Field in Milwaukeestan, yesterday.
On the bus, two old ladies were wearing masks, but that was it.
In the stadium, with a crowd of over 35K no one was masked.
I saw those same ladies at the game; we sat in the same section. They didn’t wear their masks at all during the game, but had them back on when we got back on the bus.
Not sure of the logic behind that, but, whatever.
The National Anthem was played, EVERYONE that could stand, did so; no players took a knee.
7th Inning Stretch? They played ‘God Bless America’ and again, everyone stood and sang.
Faith in Humanity, restored. (For a few days at least!)
I thought by now people would have figured out the mask hoax. “You can’t fix stupid.”
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40% of the loons in the Twin Cities never took their masks off. Of this 40%, half are wearing cloth masks.
Sneezing and coughing at church the past two weekends. Yep, covid is spreading, and then going away. Masks are here to stay in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Golden Valley.
May I suggest that the Minn. city council stick their face diaper up where the sun don’t shine.
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I think 1/2 of the women use face diapers on a monthly basis, but I don’t know if they dress like girls or boys. The mpls
clownshow has one big tall “woman” who is really a man, but everybody calls him a girl. Yo no comprehendo.
The name I have for my other car is not family forum friendly.
:)
[Eddie is better than Tom or Penelope]
Craziest thing I ever saw was the doc making hubby take cardio tests with a mask over his face so he could barely breathe.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
In event of a Civil War, a face diaper is a great way to spot the enemy.
BINGO!! Why exactly should we get jabs that DON’T WORK?
Why get vaxxed? So you can destroy your immune system, wear masks and get covid anyway.
I got very hoarse, and still haven't gotten my voice fully back. I called the office back after the 10 days to let them know I was done with the meds, but that my voice was still hoarse, and that I still had some mucus in the back of my throat. They told me that it was a virus, and that the hoarseness could last longer, and that many of the staff were also hoarse. She recommended I get some Mucinex, the Expectorant to help with the mucus. I tried it, but it made me feel worse.
This past Friday evening, I began having some intermittent, mild heart palpitations. My blood pressure was 148/63. I didn't think anything of the palpitations, as I get them very infrequently, and they always go away. Saturday evening, my face started feeling flushed, and tingly. Took my blood pressure, and it was 185/80. Took it again a while later, and it was still about the same, and I still had the tingling that would come and go. The last time I had those symptoms I was having gall bladder attacks. That was 2015, and I had it taken out. Even though I'm on blood pressure medication, I didn't want to take any chances, so I drove over to the hospital here.
They did CAT scans, EKG, urine, blood work, checked my sugar, and did a Covid test. They gave me additional meds for the blood pressure and got it down to 160/63. The Covid test was positive, so they gave me a packet of Plaxlovid meds to take. I didn't want to start taking them without consulting my doctor, as one of the more common side effects is hypertension. I called his office this morning, and he told me there shouldn't be a problem, but to check my pressure regularly, and let them know if there is an issue.
I refused to get the vaccines, and will not get them, and I still don't trust the nasal swab tests. I wasn't sure if what I had early on, and losing my voice, had anything to do with Covid. Wasn't sure if I could test positive after so much time had passed from the onset of the virus I apparently had. I did a search, and it said you can test positive for weeks afterwards, but I still don't know if it was Covid from the beginning, or if I caught Covid more recently. I guess I'll never know. All I know is that I had no fever, no body aches, no loss of taste or smell, and other than a sore throat, swollen throat glands, and hoarseness, those were the only symptoms I exhibited. I haven't had a cold in over 20 years. Everything I did experience was tolerable. Not getting my voice back fully after four weeks now is my irks me the most, and the crappy taste in my mouth from the Plaxlovid pills. Blood pressure as of now is 130/60.
In the meantime, Georgia has organized a "special" grand jury to probe if President Trump tried to illegally influence the 2020 election. How do you illegally interfere with an election that's already been conducted? As far as I know, challenging ballots, and election results are a legal part of the election system. Just ask Democrats who spend every election, challenging overseas military ballots to see how many they can eliminate, send hoards of lawyers to districts to sue for recounts, and challenge Republican absentee ballots, and Democrat members of Congress rejecting Presidential electors every time a Republican wins The White House.
Do you have zinc, and Vitamin D and C supplements?
https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html#casesm1
Check out how cases are counted.
This state’s stats are crap, too.
Thanks for your reply. I have left-over script Vitamin D, 50,000 IU that I'd been taking for years, but when I visited my doctor on April 5th, my fasting bloodwork showed my Vitamin D numbers were high, so he told me to stop taking them. I take many other prescription oral meds for various health issues: thyroid, sugar, GERD, hypertension, anti-inflammatory, and cholesterol, that I don't add any supplements unless my Endocrinologist/family doctor specifically tells me to take them.
Over the past two years I've lost about 26 pounds. Lost 2 pounds since I started with this virus. I take Jardiance for my sugar, and that can cause weight loss.
He's got me scheduled for abdominal CAT scans with contrast to make sure there isn't anything else causing the weight loss. I had to reschedule them due to this virus. Also, when they did the bone density and x-rays of my spine on April 5th, the person who read them said there was a possible splenic aneurysm, and they will check for that when I finally go for those CAT scans later this month. I've had four previous abdominal surgeries: 2010 - perforated bowel due to diverticulitis/temporary colostomy; reversal of colostomy three months later; 2012 - repair of incisional hernia with insertion of mesh (I have developed another large abdominal hernia since then), and gall bladder removal in 2015. Saved all my surgeries up for my old age.
True.
I think the Covid mandates and shutdowns, the proliferation of BLM yard signs, the woke gender pronouns, the recycling nonsense, the stolen election, the border chaos - all of these are parts of an escalating social engineering effort - to find out how far they can go before the people will fight back.
The scary thing is - it appears there won’t be any fighting back.
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