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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/10/2020 9:42:17 PM   
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Touched a nerve Sweens



Sexism tends to do that.
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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/10/2020 9:44:16 PM   
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There you have it. Kristi Noem said nuh-uh, so it's debunked. She's hot, so she must be right.


It is sad that women have to deal with crap like this when they are decent-looking.

It's a comment on the attitude of the Trumpians I deal with, not Kristi Noem. My assessment of Noem is that she spews a lot of obtuse rhetoric. Luckily South Dakota is the perfect place for it. They lap that crap up.



Like the people of South Dakota are sooooo much different than the people of south and west Minnesota.

Oh no doubt about that. They're idiots too.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/10/2020 9:45:46 PM  1 votes
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Sexism tends to do that.

Spare me. You're side has zero credibility on that issue.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/10/2020 9:52:35 PM   
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Spare me. You're side has zero credibility on that issue.


My side? Like the world just has two sides? How prosaic.

I do not think what you said was sexist because of anything about 'your side'. And I think you were being sexist regardless of 'your side's' credibility on that issue.

Do you have any daughters? If you did, would you want someone talking about them the way you did Governor Noem? I don't think so. I sure don't.
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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/10/2020 9:55:37 PM   
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Like the people of South Dakota are sooooo much different than the people of south and west Minnesota.

Oh no doubt about that. They're idiots too.


Could you explain which areas of the country are not all idiots? Maybe use small words so all the idiots can understand?

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/10/2020 10:08:59 PM   
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Unome (and yes. Yes we do):

https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2020/09/03/south-dakotas-covid-19-surge-worst-nation-coronavirus/5701689002/ {Sept. 3, 2020 South Dakota is the worst state in the nation for COVID-19 after a surge in cases during the last week. }

https://apnews.com/14f28035ec9d45528ddd57f63bf70c39 {South Dakota has recorded the nation’s third-highest rate of coronavirus cases per capita over the last two weeks, an alarming development health officials attributed to summer gatherings, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and students returning to college campuses and school classrooms.}


Yes, and I posted the reports from yesterday. The spike happened due to the reasons listed, the people and local municipalities responded and the numbers are sharply down.

Care to address how Minnesota has done in comparison? Hint: its worse.

Actually, Minnesota's 1,429 infections per 100,000 is lower than South Dakota's 1,708 infections per 100,000.


That's the trouble with engaging in discussion with some people. If they aren't participating in good faith I spend all my time fact checking everything. Some mistakes and misinformation is to be expected from anyone, after all we're only human. But when the mistakes and misinformation occur at a higher rate and always in favor of whatever slant the person is presenting... Well then it becomes pretty pointless really quick.


Maybe you missed my point. Governor Walz failed to protect Minnesota's long-term care facilities which is why Minnesota has 71.5% higher fatality rate from COVID than South Dakota (343 per million for Minnesota and 200 per million for South Dakota) despite South Dakota having more infections per million (1,429 per million to 1,708 per million).

So a Minnesotan that got a COVID test and tested positive is more than twice as likely to die than a South Dakotan that tested positive.

How can that be?

It is all about who gets sick and in MN, the virus ravaged the LTC facilities because the Governor failed to protect the one area that almost everyone knew had to be protected.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/10/2020 10:28:07 PM   
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Trump lies about his recorded lies about the pandemic. This is the guy you want leading the fight?


Trump said he knew the virus was bad and tried to play it down to calm the panic.

What? That is all sorts of ridiculous.

In my opinion, Trump is so vain that he wants to pretend that he was right all along, because he HAS TO BE right.

He would have been far better off saying that he and the rest of the world were flat-footed because China's government lied like crazy about the virus. How it spread from human-to-human and how really contagious it was/is.

And you would think blaming China would be right up Trump's alley, but he cannot bring himself to admit that he was in any way duped by China, so, of course, he knew the truth all along.

So, if I get this right, Trump's argument seems to be: I knew the truth all along, but I withheld it by lying, but I did it for the greater good of the country. Now, I have no doubt that a President may have to lie for a national security concern. For example, if a foreign government catches a spy and he is asked about it, should he say the truth if he knows it? Nope.

However, it seems obvious that he could have played down the scare while ALSO talking up being safe!

Like. we are working on coronavirus containment, we are on the case. In the meantime, it would be wise just to take some added precautions like <list the best ideas the CDC had at the time> Thank you and God bless America.

But, apparently, he thought downplaying it was the better choice. Ummm, no.

I will forgive anything anyone said before we saw in Italy how big of a deal this could be, but after that, we knew.
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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/10/2020 10:34:07 PM   
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Oh come on Brad. We both know he can go out and find that number from some crackpot on Facebook and link to it.
Afterall, if it's on the interweb it must be true.


https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/21/cdc-study-actual-covid-19-cases/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/25/coronavirus-cases-10-times-larger/

Not crackpot Facebook links.

Got anything different?


EDIT: BTW, Mark's statements about the likely amount of COVID cases was pretty much widely accepted in the scientific community, but the 'other side' (Copywrite: Sweeney) disputes what everyone that has followed COVID closely already knows just because big, bad Mark said it. Does someone with a donkey on their lapel pin have to say something for it to be true?

I know, I know, I am wasting my time here because 50% of the people reading what I write already have their mind made up that I will be wrong.

And that is all so ridiculous because not every Democrat, or Republican, even agrees with everyone in their same party. How can only 'your side' be correct when your side does, whatever it is, does not even agree?

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 7:53:16 AM   
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Your problem, IMO, is the same as T-rump’s problem.

Spin truth and fact to fit an agenda to “prove” how smart you need to be.


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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 8:53:36 AM   
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Maybe you missed my point. Governor Walz failed to protect Minnesota's long-term care facilities which is why Minnesota has 71.5% higher fatality rate from COVID than South Dakota (343 per million for Minnesota and 200 per million for South Dakota) despite South Dakota having more infections per million (1,429 per million to 1,708 per million).

So a Minnesotan that got a COVID test and tested positive is more than twice as likely to die than a South Dakotan that tested positive.

How can that be?

It is all about who gets sick and in MN, the virus ravaged the LTC facilities because the Governor failed to protect the one area that almost everyone knew had to be protected.

I didn't miss your point. Your point just isn't valid. There is no evidence to support higher reported covid deaths in LTC being due to any negligence on Walz's part. At first the complaint from the right was that the way Minnesota reported covid was designed to inflate death totals. Later Karin Housley and Baldy Gazelka decided the "failed to protect seniors" narrative was a more effective campaign issue. The difference in Minnesota LTC deaths is due to how we report covid deaths.

Are COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota care homes really twice those of Wisconsin?
CMS data, MDH letter to Sen. Karin Housley suggest otherwise — that deaths in Minnesota homes low by national averages
Written By: Paul John Scott | Jun 13th 2020 - 2pm.

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- The state of Minnesota reported 394 cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, June 13. The new cases were spread across 40 counties and appeared to contain no "hot spots."

Cook County in the state's arrowhead reported its first case on Saturday. There is now only one county in the state — Lake of the Woods — with no laboratory-confirmed cases.

The state has now passed 30,000 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, reaching 30,172. Health officials believe the true case count is much higher and have offered a figure of 5% of the population, or roughly 260,000 people.

The state on Saturday also reported having conducted 12,784 tests Friday, a continuation of high testing spurred by four community testing sites set up in the Twin Cities in the aftermath of widespread protest last week.

An additional 9 deaths were reported Saturday. Single deaths were recorded in Dakota, Stearns and Washington counties. Two deaths were recorded in Ramsey County, and four in Hennepin County. The state has now recorded 1,283 deaths from COVID-19.

The new deaths included four residents of a long-term care facility. The state health department recently supplied Sen. Karin Housley a list of answers to questions concerning deaths in long-term care facilities.

The senator has been at the forefront of an effort to call attention to the state's high percentage of deaths in long-term care facilities.

Minnesota on Saturday reported 1,019 of its 1,283 deaths in long-term care or assisted living facilities. This comes out to 79% of all deaths in the state from the virus occurring in long-term care or assisted living.

Housley and other critics have centered on the 80% figure, consistent for the duration of the epidemic, as representative of a problem in which Minnesota is an outlier nationally for its high rate of deaths in long-term care.

In their June 5 letter to Housley's committee, the Minnesota Department of Health countered that 561 of 1,072 Minnesotans who had died of COVID-19 in the state as of June 1, had died in skilled nursing facilities, also known as nursing homes. That's a figure equal to just 52% of total deaths.

An additional 30% of the state's deaths from COVID-19, however, had at that point come from other forms of "long-term care" — 256 being residents of assisted living, 39 of memory care, 23 of a group home and 9 of hospice, treatment centers and adult foster care.

"Minnesota reports deaths in all LTCs including assisted living facilities, group homes and other congregate settings," the letter stated, "whereas many other states report only deaths in nursing homes,"

That doesn't appear to be the case for Wisconsin, however. On its website, Wisconsin reports that just 42% of all deaths from COVID-19 in the state have occurred in long-term care, a category which it identifies as "skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes) and assisted living facilities "(emphasis added).

The MDH appears to believe the reporting of COVID-19 deaths in congregate living in neighboring states is an undercount, however, writing in its letter that "nearly half of Minnesota’s LTC deaths have been in settings other than nursing homes. If (that) pattern is similar in states reporting only nursing home deaths, their true numbers are higher than what is currently attributed."

While not addressed by the MDH in its letter, the Wisconsin-Minnesota comparison highlights a stark discrepancy between state-to-state and national-based COVID-19 reporting. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the only standardized federal reporting on COVID-19 in long-term care, the death rate within nursing homes only in Minnesota and Wisconsin is virtually indistinguishable.

CMS recently reported that Wisconsin has recorded 10.6 deaths per 1000 residents of nursing homes, while Minnesota has recorded 12.1 deaths per 1000 residents of nursing homes — that's a Minnesota-Wisconsin difference of 1.5 per 1000, or just one-tenth of one percent. Moreover, both states are doing well comparatively. Minnesota nursing homes have less than half the death rate of the national average, according to the CMS. "The average number of nursing home deaths per 1000 is 27.5 nationally and 12.7 in Minnesota," the MDH wrote in it's letter.

If these data are accurate — unlike deaths in assisted living, they reflect COVID-19 death reporting to government payers — either assisted living centers in Minnesota have vastly higher rates of death from COVID-19 than do those in Wisconsin, or the recording of deaths from COVID-19 in assisted living within Wisconsin represent an undercount.

In additional news Saturday, the ICU usage for COVID-19 in the state remained stable,
while the non-ICU hospitalization for the illness has dropped by 16 beds to 199 people.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 9:03:28 AM   
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BTW, Mark's statements about the likely amount of COVID cases was pretty much widely accepted in the scientific community, but the 'other side' (Copywrite: Sweeney)

Yes, there is no left. There is no right. There is no progressive. There is no conservative. Just look at our Congress and White House. There are no sides. There is only unified "WE".

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 10:59:32 AM   
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BTW, Mark's statements about the likely amount of COVID cases was pretty much widely accepted in the scientific community, but the 'other side' (Copywrite: Sweeney)

Yes, there is no left. There is no right. There is no progressive. There is no conservative. Just look at our Congress and White House. There are no sides. There is only unified "WE".

Everything is politicized. It's a dirty rotten, low down shame. I lean conservative despite Bill thinking I'm hardcore right wing. I don't know what to believe about the repercussions of the Sturgis rally, but IMO it was clearly too risky to be held. Is their any possibility of agreeing about simple things like that and having a shot at WE. Probably not. Until WE rise up and eliminate the Republican and Democratic parties there will never be a chance for WE.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 11:10:24 AM   
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BTW, Mark's statements about the likely amount of COVID cases was pretty much widely accepted in the scientific community, but the 'other side' (Copywrite: Sweeney)

Yes, there is no left. There is no right. There is no progressive. There is no conservative. Just look at our Congress and White House. There are no sides. There is only unified "WE".

Everything is politicized. It's a dirty rotten, low down shame. I lean conservative despite Bill thinking I'm hardcore right wing. I don't know what to believe about the repercussions of the Sturgis rally, but IMO it was clearly too risky to be held. Is their any possibility of agreeing about simple things like that and having a shot at WE. Probably not. Until WE rise up and eliminate the Republican and Democratic parties there will never be a chance for WE.


And the Republican and Democratic party machines will never have that. Bad for business.
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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 12:09:40 PM   
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Also, 9 of the 10 worst infection rates per 100,000 states are red states, where they heeded Agent Orange's call to open up their economies.

I can't speak for other red states but why wouldn't ND open up when we are so sparsely populated? When it is all said and done, total deaths and hospitalizations should be the metric that each state makes their policies on.

Because you have a higher infection rate than much more densely populated states. The only rationale for going by total deaths and hospitalizations is that it is easier to mask doing a lousy job of handling the outbreak.

Nobody knows what the real infection rate is. 50 million people in U.S. have probably had it and not even known it.

Sources?

Oh come on Brad. We both know he can go out and find that number from some crackpot on Facebook and link to it.
Afterall, if it's on the interweb it must be true.

Indulge me

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 12:10:44 PM   
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BTW, Mark's statements about the likely amount of COVID cases was pretty much widely accepted in the scientific community, but the 'other side' (Copywrite: Sweeney)

Yes, there is no left. There is no right. There is no progressive. There is no conservative. Just look at our Congress and White House. There are no sides. There is only unified "WE".

Everything is politicized. It's a dirty rotten, low down shame. I lean conservative despite Bill thinking I'm hardcore right wing. I don't know what to believe about the repercussions of the Sturgis rally, but IMO it was clearly too risky to be held. Is their any possibility of agreeing about simple things like that and having a shot at WE. Probably not. Until WE rise up and eliminate the Republican and Democratic parties there will never be a chance for WE.


And the Republican and Democratic party machines will never have that. Bad for business.

That's why WE need to rise up and cast them down. Those two parties thrive on animosity and conflict.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 12:11:57 PM   
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BTW, Mark's statements about the likely amount of COVID cases was pretty much widely accepted in the scientific community, but the 'other side' (Copywrite: Sweeney)

Yes, there is no left. There is no right. There is no progressive. There is no conservative. Just look at our Congress and White House. There are no sides. There is only unified "WE".

Everything is politicized. It's a dirty rotten, low down shame. I lean conservative despite Bill thinking I'm hardcore right wing. I don't know what to believe about the repercussions of the Sturgis rally, but IMO it was clearly too risky to be held. Is their any possibility of agreeing about simple things like that and having a shot at WE. Probably not. Until WE rise up and eliminate the Republican and Democratic parties there will never be a chance for WE.


And the Republican and Democratic party machines will never have that. Bad for business.

That's why WE need to rise up and cast them down. Those two parties thrive on animosity and conflict.

Idealism will get you almost nowhere in politics.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 3:08:06 PM   
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Your problem, IMO, is the same as T-rump’s problem.

Spin truth and fact to fit an agenda to “prove” how smart you need to be.


It is sad that this is your take on things.

My feeling is almost the complete opposite. I do not care how much flack I get for my opinions because I think I seek the truth with no regard to conventional wisdom or what others will think of me for sharing it. I am going to try and post less here because I doubt it changes anyone's mind at all. The people on the 'other side' of any issue will assume I am wrong the second the smallest shred of evidence if offered that 'their side' could be correct. Massive confirmation bias.

Some people think climate change is the biggest issue facing mankind. I think that is simply not true. Although greater storms and rising oceans are something to be concerned about and mitigated.

Some people think Sturgis caused over 250,000 COVID cases, I think that is demonstrably ludicrous. It still was a bad idea for hundreds of thousands to get together and not wear masks. I think it ended up being less of a disaster than it could have because it was mainly outside and people that were concerned about being sick did not go. One thing that always surprised and impressed me in being at bike rallies and shows is just how much bikers care about other bikers. And I don't mean their friends, I mean bikers they don't know.

I would never had entered that discussion where it not for some inaccurate of misleading numbers being thrown around as truth.

Lastly, I do not even know how to respond to the notion of having an agenda to "prove how smart" I am. How should I change this in your opinion? Think less before I post? Do less research? Not post things that are well thought out?

Was the one time I posted on that Sturgis photo a good model of how I should post? I made a snap judgement based on one piece of information, a different picture, and an assumption, that most Sturgis Police would wear masks, and I turned out to be wrong. Is that more of the level of posting that would make you happy? Half-baked crap that may or may not be correct? That is literally the opposite of what I want to add to the World.


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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare


Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

Ali ibn Abi Talib

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Robert A. Heinlein


I like all these quotes.

Great stuff.

Although I think all the people that have offered up their unflattering opinions of others on these threads that they disagree with are doing exactly what is implied in that quote. Not learning. Of course, that is just a microcosm of the whole country.

I guess I do have to say that it is strange that you posted the Heinlein quote as every post you make on this thread has been some form of ad hominem commentary on those you disagree with, which would be the exact opposite of what one would do if they heeded his words as actual advice.
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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 3:44:08 PM   
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Maybe you missed my point. Governor Walz failed to protect Minnesota's long-term care facilities which is why Minnesota has 71.5% higher fatality rate from COVID than South Dakota (343 per million for Minnesota and 200 per million for South Dakota) despite South Dakota having more infections per million (1,429 per million to 1,708 per million).

So a Minnesotan that got a COVID test and tested positive is more than twice as likely to die than a South Dakotan that tested positive.

How can that be?

It is all about who gets sick and in MN, the virus ravaged the LTC facilities because the Governor failed to protect the one area that almost everyone knew had to be protected.

I didn't miss your point. Your point just isn't valid. There is no evidence to support higher reported covid deaths in LTC being due to any negligence on Walz's part. At first the complaint from the right was that the way Minnesota reported covid was designed to inflate death totals. Later Karin Housley and Baldy Gazelka decided the "failed to protect seniors" narrative was a more effective campaign issue. The difference in Minnesota LTC deaths is due to how we report covid deaths.

Are COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota care homes really twice those of Wisconsin?
CMS data, MDH letter to Sen. Karin Housley suggest otherwise — that deaths in Minnesota homes low by national averages
Written By: Paul John Scott | Jun 13th 2020 - 2pm.

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- The state of Minnesota reported 394 cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, June 13. The new cases were spread across 40 counties and appeared to contain no "hot spots."

Cook County in the state's arrowhead reported its first case on Saturday. There is now only one county in the state — Lake of the Woods — with no laboratory-confirmed cases.

The state has now passed 30,000 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, reaching 30,172. Health officials believe the true case count is much higher and have offered a figure of 5% of the population, or roughly 260,000 people.

The state on Saturday also reported having conducted 12,784 tests Friday, a continuation of high testing spurred by four community testing sites set up in the Twin Cities in the aftermath of widespread protest last week.

An additional 9 deaths were reported Saturday. Single deaths were recorded in Dakota, Stearns and Washington counties. Two deaths were recorded in Ramsey County, and four in Hennepin County. The state has now recorded 1,283 deaths from COVID-19.

The new deaths included four residents of a long-term care facility. The state health department recently supplied Sen. Karin Housley a list of answers to questions concerning deaths in long-term care facilities.

The senator has been at the forefront of an effort to call attention to the state's high percentage of deaths in long-term care facilities.

Minnesota on Saturday reported 1,019 of its 1,283 deaths in long-term care or assisted living facilities. This comes out to 79% of all deaths in the state from the virus occurring in long-term care or assisted living.

Housley and other critics have centered on the 80% figure, consistent for the duration of the epidemic, as representative of a problem in which Minnesota is an outlier nationally for its high rate of deaths in long-term care.

In their June 5 letter to Housley's committee, the Minnesota Department of Health countered that 561 of 1,072 Minnesotans who had died of COVID-19 in the state as of June 1, had died in skilled nursing facilities, also known as nursing homes. That's a figure equal to just 52% of total deaths.

An additional 30% of the state's deaths from COVID-19, however, had at that point come from other forms of "long-term care" — 256 being residents of assisted living, 39 of memory care, 23 of a group home and 9 of hospice, treatment centers and adult foster care.

"Minnesota reports deaths in all LTCs including assisted living facilities, group homes and other congregate settings," the letter stated, "whereas many other states report only deaths in nursing homes,"

That doesn't appear to be the case for Wisconsin, however. On its website, Wisconsin reports that just 42% of all deaths from COVID-19 in the state have occurred in long-term care, a category which it identifies as "skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes) and assisted living facilities "(emphasis added).

The MDH appears to believe the reporting of COVID-19 deaths in congregate living in neighboring states is an undercount, however, writing in its letter that "nearly half of Minnesota’s LTC deaths have been in settings other than nursing homes. If (that) pattern is similar in states reporting only nursing home deaths, their true numbers are higher than what is currently attributed."

While not addressed by the MDH in its letter, the Wisconsin-Minnesota comparison highlights a stark discrepancy between state-to-state and national-based COVID-19 reporting. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the only standardized federal reporting on COVID-19 in long-term care, the death rate within nursing homes only in Minnesota and Wisconsin is virtually indistinguishable.

CMS recently reported that Wisconsin has recorded 10.6 deaths per 1000 residents of nursing homes, while Minnesota has recorded 12.1 deaths per 1000 residents of nursing homes — that's a Minnesota-Wisconsin difference of 1.5 per 1000, or just one-tenth of one percent. Moreover, both states are doing well comparatively. Minnesota nursing homes have less than half the death rate of the national average, according to the CMS. "The average number of nursing home deaths per 1000 is 27.5 nationally and 12.7 in Minnesota," the MDH wrote in it's letter.

If these data are accurate — unlike deaths in assisted living, they reflect COVID-19 death reporting to government payers — either assisted living centers in Minnesota have vastly higher rates of death from COVID-19 than do those in Wisconsin, or the recording of deaths from COVID-19 in assisted living within Wisconsin represent an undercount.

In additional news Saturday, the ICU usage for COVID-19 in the state remained stable,
while the non-ICU hospitalization for the illness has dropped by 16 beds to 199 people.


I did not make a point about LTC facilities having twice the death rate as Wisconsin, some politician did. I agree that comparing nursing homes to all LTC facilities is apples and oranges. But while the answer is not double, there is still a real clear problem for Minnesota in analyzing the numbers.

My point is valid because it explains how more than 700 Minnesotans died than Sconnies with nearly identical COVID numbers. How would you explain that massive discrepancy? 750 extra cases of bad luck?

No one here wants me to do statistical regressions, least of all me, on these numbers, but they would show pretty conclusively that the difference of Minnesota and Wisconsin (or South Dakota or North Dakota or even Iowa) COVID deaths are so distant from each other that shows Minnesota is an outlier in what people would have reasonably expected to happen.

You can make every excuse you can find, but you have not explained the huge difference in why our COVID death rate has been so much higher than ALL of our neighbors. The ones with Republican Governors. The ones with a Democratic one. This is not a partisanship thing. This is why I compared Wisconsin and Minnesota. Two Democratic Governors. Wisconsin's one is probably farther to the left.

Walz did not fail because he is a Democrat, just as Evers did not succeed because he is one as well.

I will let all this rest if you just acknowledge that you understand one thing is not debatable: the Minnesota COVID number of deaths per infection is substantially higher than all of our neighbors and that seems unlikely to have happened without some sort of cause.

State: COVID deaths/COVID confirmed cases=Mortality %

Iowa: 1,211/72,962= 1.66%
Minnesota: 1,949/82,716= 2.36%
North Dakota: 164/14684 = 1.12%
South Dakota: 177/16,117= 1.10%
Wisconsin: 1197/86,250= 1.39%

I put the states in alphabetical order so as not to prejudice the jury.

Any of those numbers really stand out to you?

It is important to compare neighbors because there should not really be a big difference in numbers.

Numbers from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 3:53:34 PM   
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You can make every excuse you can find, but you have not explained the huge difference in why our COVID death rate has been so much higher than ALL of our neighbors.

I will let all this rest if you just acknowledge that you understand one thing is not debatable: the Minnesota COVID number of deaths per infection is substantially higher than all of our neighbors and that seems unlikely to have happened without some sort of cause.

Did you even read the article I posted? It explains quite clearly that Minnesota's death total is higher because they test and report cases that other states don't. It stands to reason that if tests facilities that other states don't, they will have more reported covid deaths. In other words, there are a lot of deaths not attributed to covid in other states because they didn't test for it.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 4:51:20 PM   
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You can make every excuse you can find, but you have not explained the huge difference in why our COVID death rate has been so much higher than ALL of our neighbors.

I will let all this rest if you just acknowledge that you understand one thing is not debatable: the Minnesota COVID number of deaths per infection is substantially higher than all of our neighbors and that seems unlikely to have happened without some sort of cause.

Did you even read the article I posted? It explains quite clearly that Minnesota's death total is higher because they test and report cases that other states don't. It stands to reason that if tests facilities that other states don't, they will have more reported covid deaths. In other words, there are a lot of deaths not attributed to covid in other states because they didn't test for it.


It doesn't say that at all. It says that other states are not grouping assisted living facilities in the LTC COVID death category count. It does not say that other states are not counting those as COVID deaths. Last I checked, a death is still a death.
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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/11/2020 5:29:44 PM   
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ORIGINAL: unome

You can make every excuse you can find, but you have not explained the huge difference in why our COVID death rate has been so much higher than ALL of our neighbors.

I will let all this rest if you just acknowledge that you understand one thing is not debatable: the Minnesota COVID number of deaths per infection is substantially higher than all of our neighbors and that seems unlikely to have happened without some sort of cause.

Did you even read the article I posted? It explains quite clearly that Minnesota's death total is higher because they test and report cases that other states don't. It stands to reason that if tests facilities that other states don't, they will have more reported covid deaths. In other words, there are a lot of deaths not attributed to covid in other states because they didn't test for it.

We are cashing in. Drug overdose counted as a covid death.

There is $$$ in covid deaths.
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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/12/2020 9:55:06 AM   
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You can make every excuse you can find, but you have not explained the huge difference in why our COVID death rate has been so much higher than ALL of our neighbors.

I will let all this rest if you just acknowledge that you understand one thing is not debatable: the Minnesota COVID number of deaths per infection is substantially higher than all of our neighbors and that seems unlikely to have happened without some sort of cause.

Did you even read the article I posted? It explains quite clearly that Minnesota's death total is higher because they test and report cases that other states don't. It stands to reason that if tests facilities that other states don't, they will have more reported covid deaths. In other words, there are a lot of deaths not attributed to covid in other states because they didn't test for it.

We are cashing in. Drug overdose counted as a covid death.

There is $$$ in covid deaths.

I really surprised Trump hasn't cut off this $ for covid deaths.

We'd probably start getting a lot more accurate statistics about the deaths.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/12/2020 10:11:38 AM   
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ORIGINAL: unome

You can make every excuse you can find, but you have not explained the huge difference in why our COVID death rate has been so much higher than ALL of our neighbors.

I will let all this rest if you just acknowledge that you understand one thing is not debatable: the Minnesota COVID number of deaths per infection is substantially higher than all of our neighbors and that seems unlikely to have happened without some sort of cause.

Did you even read the article I posted? It explains quite clearly that Minnesota's death total is higher because they test and report cases that other states don't. It stands to reason that if tests facilities that other states don't, they will have more reported covid deaths. In other words, there are a lot of deaths not attributed to covid in other states because they didn't test for it.

We are cashing in. Drug overdose counted as a covid death.

There is $$$ in covid deaths.

I really surprised Trump hasn't cut off this $ for covid deaths.

We'd probably start getting a lot more accurate statistics about the deaths.

It isn't just Minnesota. It's everywhere.

Hospitals/Doctors trying to stay afloat with all the regular patients(elective surgeries, yearly checkups, etc...) they lost.

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/12/2020 10:35:58 AM   
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ORIGINAL: unome

You can make every excuse you can find, but you have not explained the huge difference in why our COVID death rate has been so much higher than ALL of our neighbors.

I will let all this rest if you just acknowledge that you understand one thing is not debatable: the Minnesota COVID number of deaths per infection is substantially higher than all of our neighbors and that seems unlikely to have happened without some sort of cause.

Did you even read the article I posted? It explains quite clearly that Minnesota's death total is higher because they test and report cases that other states don't. It stands to reason that if tests facilities that other states don't, they will have more reported covid deaths. In other words, there are a lot of deaths not attributed to covid in other states because they didn't test for it.

We are cashing in. Drug overdose counted as a covid death.

There is $$$ in covid deaths.

I really surprised Trump hasn't cut off this $ for covid deaths.

We'd probably start getting a lot more accurate statistics about the deaths.

It isn't just Minnesota. It's everywhere.

Hospitals/Doctors trying to stay afloat with all the regular patients(elective surgeries, yearly checkups, etc...) they lost.

Right. But why not give them aid in some other package rather than having it linked with covid deaths?

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RE: Covid 19 and those infected - 9/12/2020 10:50:58 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Bill Jandro

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

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ORIGINAL: unome

You can make every excuse you can find, but you have not explained the huge difference in why our COVID death rate has been so much higher than ALL of our neighbors.

I will let all this rest if you just acknowledge that you understand one thing is not debatable: the Minnesota COVID number of deaths per infection is substantially higher than all of our neighbors and that seems unlikely to have happened without some sort of cause.

Did you even read the article I posted? It explains quite clearly that Minnesota's death total is higher because they test and report cases that other states don't. It stands to reason that if tests facilities that other states don't, they will have more reported covid deaths. In other words, there are a lot of deaths not attributed to covid in other states because they didn't test for it.

We are cashing in. Drug overdose counted as a covid death.

There is $$$ in covid deaths.

I really surprised Trump hasn't cut off this $ for covid deaths.

We'd probably start getting a lot more accurate statistics about the deaths.

It isn't just Minnesota. It's everywhere.

Hospitals/Doctors trying to stay afloat with all the regular patients(elective surgeries, yearly checkups, etc...) they lost.

Right. But why not give them aid in some other package rather than having it linked with covid deaths?

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