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.”
Do not comply with the tyrants.
What this tells us is all those who got the vaccinations were snookered.
I might have to print some of those and put them around places.
Beau has started watching the USFL, too. His comments were similar to yours.
When will the lefties offer proof that cheap cloth face diapers do anything to stop COVID? My colleagues who were the most militant about masking all got Omnicron, one had delta before that. Other than the theatre or doctors office, I haven’t masked since June 2021 (when mandates were dropped in my state) and have been comparatively fine.
Yet a decent number of my vaxxed co-workers have come down with it or at least used it as a reason not to come into the office.
Proud to say I engaged in “civil disobedience” on the PATH and subway earlier today and I was far from the only one not masked.
Poor you!
I’ll be praying for you.
Inside Grand Central, more than half now shun the masks despite the nonstop monotonous PA announcements telling everybody to mask up from mouth to nose. There's a special place in hell for that guy!
And I know I have a lot of people who share that sentiment.
And I know OF…
I resemble that feeling.
There are still submissive people wearing masks out there, don’t be fooled, you can see it in their eyes and how they move around you in a store.
I had a PT Cruiser once. Cute little car, but glad I no longer have it with today’s gas prices. Chrysler got around the mileage requirements by classifying it as a “small SUV”.
A bit off topic, but I love your tagline.
Thanks, can always use prayers.
That’s true, there’s always a certain percentage of people who will fight back.
Unfortunately, things have to get a lot worse before we can hope for a big enough percentage to mount an actual revolution.
Even in the American Revolution, it was only a minority that took up arms - many farmers and merchants cooperated with the British or tried to stay neutral.
In fact, the problem of colonists cooperating with the British - feeding, housing and supplying them - created an perverse situation wherein Washington often had to burn colonial farms, warehouses and bridges in order to thwart the British.
This caused colonials to resent the Revolutionaries and to consider them troublemakers, rather than freedom fighters.
It was similar to the way the Left today calls us “insurrectionists” and “domestic terrorists” whenever we lift a finger to fight back.
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