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Walz dropping Minnesota mask mandate; pleads for more vaccinations
Mprnews ^ | 05/13/2021 | Brian Bakst & Peter Cox

Posted on 05/13/2021 4:56:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Gov. Tim Walz said Thursday he’ll sign an order Friday ending Minnesota’s statewide mask-wearing mandate following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance allowing fully vaccinated people to stop wearing masks.

Calling it a great day for Minnesota, the governor continued to plead with unvaccinated Minnesotans to get their shots to hold back the spread of COVID-19.

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1 posted on 05/13/2021 4:56:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For this guy to drop the mandate the polling on mask wearing must be just awful!


2 posted on 05/13/2021 4:59:55 PM PDT by bourgain
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just drop ALL mask mandates to INCLUDE MANDATORY MASKING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. Let those who want to be vaccinated get vaccinated and those who don’t want to be vaccinated be free to not be vaccinated.


3 posted on 05/13/2021 5:03:41 PM PDT by House Atreides
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Pressure builds on Moe Larry & Curley.

Cuomo , Murphy & Lamont.


4 posted on 05/13/2021 5:04:18 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who is spreading Covid these days anyway...other than the thousands of illegals Joke let in to roam the country I mean.


5 posted on 05/13/2021 5:04:23 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Irish lives matter!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s only for vaccinated people.


6 posted on 05/13/2021 5:09:14 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Prince of Space
"Who is spreading Covid these days anyway...other than the thousands of illegals Joke let in to roam the country I mean."

And those who have gotten the vaccine, have tested positive, and are spreading it to us healthy unvaccinated people.

7 posted on 05/13/2021 5:10:28 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If over 60% have herd immunity, then 60% or more of the unvaccinated are also immune. It’s time for ALL states, including OREGON, to dump the masks after what the CDC said.
Why is Gov. Brown of Oregon having such a difficult time relinquishing her control of covid while she lets Antifa/BLM destroy the state?
This inept governor is on her way out!


8 posted on 05/13/2021 5:14:16 PM PDT by doc maverick
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What will the waxy witch of MI do ?


9 posted on 05/13/2021 5:22:14 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: mass55th

Correct. In Minnesota, Walz had set a July 1st date to drop the state mask mandate.

He got caught unprepared for today’s CDC announcement. Appeared somewhat embarrassed at tonight’s presser.


10 posted on 05/13/2021 5:24:56 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: bourgain

I’ve been ‘wearing’ my mask looped behind my ears and slung comfortably under my chin. In the early days of the mandate (summer ‘20?), I used to see people wear it that way and wonder what they were thinking. Now, I know. They were thinking what I now think. “Go ahead. Make my born-on-the-4th-of-July ass wear this niqab.”


11 posted on 05/13/2021 5:30:17 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: mass55th
And those who have gotten the vaccine, have tested positive, and are spreading it to us healthy unvaccinated people.

Sure, there are some. But numerically speaking there are far more "healthy" unvaccinated people getting COVID than vaccinated people. Don't know the exact numbers yet, but 10 to 1 is a good guess.

12 posted on 05/13/2021 6:46:02 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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Well, when you find the official statistics for that, please share them, because as far as I know, no one is keeping track of the number of vaccinated people who have contracted the virus, or the number of unvaccinated people they have infected. It doesn’t seem to be important to anyone.


13 posted on 05/13/2021 7:31:18 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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Well, when you find the official statistics for that, please share them, because as far as I know, no one is keeping track of the number of vaccinated people who have contracted the virus, or the number of unvaccinated people they have infected. It doesn’t seem to be important to anyone.

In general the CDC tracks the bad breakthrough cases. There were about 10,000 with 100,000,000 partly or fully vaccinated people. They admitted on that web page that there were more they didn't know about. But most of the rest were so minor that the people didn't know they had it.

You can easily argue the same is true for COVID, many people don't even know they have it. There's no difference IMO between COVID in vaccinated people and unvaccincated people. Same percentage of undetected cases. Same hospitalization and death (about 8% and 1%) in the tested cases (serious enough symptoms to get tested ).

But the vaccine studies show vaccinated fewer people get COVID with the same aggregate exposure (apples to apples). There's pretty strong evidence even outside of those studies. One percent of Americans got COVID. Now 0.01% of vaccinated Americans are getting COVID (counting tested cases only for both) Granted the time periods are different: a whole year of exposure vs a few months. But that's 100 to 1. Even if it goes to 10 to 1 the vaccine is still worth it and it won't get that low.

14 posted on 05/13/2021 8:22:06 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: palmer

Thanks for the information. It’s appreciated.


15 posted on 05/13/2021 8:36:51 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: mass55th
No problem. Here's the CDC link: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html It hasn't been updated for a while. Ignoring the text and just looking at the numbers you can see there's the same rate of hospitalization and death for breakthrough cases as there is (currently) for "normal" cases. That means when they say "vaccine makes a case less serious", that's a lie. What vaccine does is make a case less likely. We don't know exactly how much less likely yet.
16 posted on 05/13/2021 8:43:42 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: palmer

Thanks.


17 posted on 05/13/2021 8:53:39 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Correct. In Minnesota, Walz had set a July 1st date to drop the state mask mandate.

He got caught unprepared for today’s CDC announcement. Appeared somewhat embarrassed at tonight’s presser.
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Yesterday I walked into a Cub in Plymouth, MN without wearing a mask. Nobody stopped me and told me to put on a mask. It was an experiment. Today I walked into a 1/2 price book store w/o a mask and a clerk jumped me. I pulled out my mask and announced that I was fully vaccinated and wouldn’t breathe on anybody and make them die.

3 hours later, the Governor rescinded mask mandate.


18 posted on 05/13/2021 9:43:50 PM PDT by BarbM (FU Pence. You refuse to be alone with a woman, but have no compunction in screwing the USA)
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Now Minneapolis and St. Paul have told Walz to pound sand.


19 posted on 05/14/2021 6:59:34 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I am surprised that the two boy mayors have enough courage to buck governor klink.


20 posted on 05/14/2021 12:07:26 PM PDT by BarbM (FU Pence. You refuse to be alone with a woman, but have no compunction in screwing the USA)
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