In Minnesota, the death rate for COVID-19 patients over 60 was 0.01 per
thousand residents. For people over 80, it was 0.34 per thousand. Not bad
at all and certainly nothing that would justify shutting down the state.

For nursing home residents in the state, the death rate was the highest in
the nation: 28 per thousand. In other words, if you were 80 or older but
didn't live in a nursing home, your chances of dying from COVID were
minor; if you lived in a nursing home, you were at enormous risk--about
100 times greater. That's from a Duke University study on the policy,
which states:

COVID-19 case and death rates were strongly related to long-term care
setting the period January through May 2020, 78% of Minnesota�s 28,523
COVID-19 cases were recorded for individuals younger than age 60. In
contrast, 93% of 1,217 deaths were recorded for people 60 or older, and
62% of deaths were of people 80 and older. The prevalence of cases per
1,000 persons in each age group was .51 cases for ages 1-59, .49 cases for
age 60 and older, and .98 cases for age 80 and older. Mortality per 1,000
persons was .002 deaths for ages 1-59, .009 deaths for age 60 and older,
and .34 for age 80 and older 8. Among nursing facility residents, on the
other hand, we estimated a prevalence of 143 cases per 1,000 residents and
28 deaths per 1,000 residents 9. Residents in long-term care settings
accounted for only 21% of Minnesota�s total COVID-19 cases, yet they
experienced 81% of total COVID-19 deaths. There were striking differences
in the distribution of resident cases and deaths by the setting in which
people resided (Figure 6). Of Minnesota�s total COVID-19 cases through May
2020, 22,625 (79%) were among people residing in community settings
(private residences), while 2,973 (16%) of cases were nursing facility
residents or staff, 1,243 (4%) were assisted living residents or staff,
and 179 (1%) were memory center residents or staff. In sharp contrast,
only 238 (19%) of deaths were among individuals in the community. Among
the 913 deaths in long-term care, 615 (56%) were of residents of nursing
facilities, 267 (22%) were residents of assisted living facilities, and 31
(3%) were residents of memory centers.

Over 80% of COVID deaths occurred in nursing homes despite their being
incredibly locked down. For instance, family members couldn't visit out of
concern that they might transmit the virus.

So, how did it get in there?

Tim Walz put people recovering from COVID-19 in the same homes as
healthier patients.

There's been a lot of talk about Andrew Cuomo's policy of killing off the
elderly in New York, but Walz's policies were at least as bad. In fact,
there is a lot of evidence that Walz's policies were much worse than
Cuomo's since he kept sending COVID-infected patients into nursing homes
far longer than Cuomo.

For some reason, nobody in the media is talking about this issue, despite
Andrew Cuomo's policies being in the news lately. New York's numbers are
greater because the population of New York is larger, but person for
person, Walz is as big a murderer.

Walz kept the policy of releasing still-infectious patients back into
nursing homes long past New York's decision to reverse its policy despite
the issue generating a lot of controversy. Walz insisted that the policy
wasn't a mistake, long after it was clear that people were dying because
of his choice.

I was fighting this battle throughout the pandemic, pointing to Governor
Ron DeSantis' decision to ban returning COVID patients back into nursing
homes. It was an obvious move, but since it was done by DeSantis, every
Democrat immediately rejected it.

In 2021, my friend Jay Duggan wrote about the policy, looking back at the
unnecessary deaths caused by Walz's decision. This was not a case of
making an unavoidable error in the fog of war; Minnesota's death rate at
nursing homes was twice the national average and Walz defended his
policies regardless.

Why was Walz seeking to point the finger at school sports, small business
dining and restaurants, and family gatherings as the vectors spreading
COVID? Because in November 2020 Minnesota still had a near 70% total
average of deaths occurring in nursing homes/long term care (LTC) directly
under his direct supervision. King Walz refused to use the convalescent
facility purchased for COVID infected seniors still recovering after
hospital treatment, and had ordered recovering COVID infected seniors BACK
INTO NURSING HOMES. To deflect from the terrible COVID results coming from
his neglect in LTC King Walz fingered the unproven spread vectors of
children, small business, and family gatherings as the activity shutdowns
necessary to protect seniors in LTC and to preserve vital COVID hospital
bed capacity. If Governor Elder Killer really wanted to preserve the
precious few ICU beds for the COVID sick and to protect LTC workers and
seniors from contact with COVID, WHY DID HE COORDINATE WITH FAIRVIEW TO
CLOSE THE 90 COVID BED BETHESDA HOSPITAL TO START THE 2ND LOCKDOWN? AND
THEN ARRANGE TO SEND THE COVID INFECTED RECOVERING BACK INTO NURSING HOMES
INSTEAD?

There was no hospital bed shortage. There never had been. Hospitals and
other medical facilities were laying off doctors and nurses because there
weren't patients to treat.

Thousands of health care workers were laid off and thousands of hospital
beds were left empty as hospitals focused on only treating the sickest
COVID patients. Elective services were suspended, hospitals lost money
hand over fist, and nurses exited health care, in some cases permanently.
You have probably noticed staffing shortages in the medical system. Thank
COVID shutdowns for that.

So Walz had a choice: keep still infectious patients in the hospital or
return them to nursing homes. He chose the latter and killed hundreds.
They died without their families, too, as nobody was allowed to visit
their relatives.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was among those
warning that nursing-home populations were at increased risk of being
infected by � and dying from � the coronavirus, with the sick and elderly
most vulnerable.

However, Walz�s administration wanted to rush sick patients back to such
homes, despite warnings that they did not allow safe distancing or the
level of prevention needed, the Park Rapids Enterprise made clear at the
time.

The policy has since been scrubbed from the public-facing Minnesota
government website, according to Fox News, which used the Wayback Machine
to find it.

�Patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 who still require
transmission-based precautions for COVID-19 can be transferred to
congregate living facilities,� the policy said.

�It is the recommendation of MDH that patients with suspected or confirmed
COVID-19 can be discharged when clinically indicated and neither
discontinuation of transmission-based precautions nor the establishment of
two negative COVID-19 tests is required prior to hospital discharge.�

I believed then and still think now that Tim Walz is a monster. He knew
what he was doing. And, contrary to what he claimed, the federal
government warned the governors that this was dangerous. But he did it
anyway.

If I were a cynic, I would think it was to save the state money by killing
off an expensive demographic, but is anybody that sociopathic?

Tim Walz has never been held accountable for his manslaughter by depraved
indifference. Soon, he may be one heartbeat away from the presidency.

The Harris/Walz campaign's slogan should be: failing upward.

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