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An opportunity to build trust… lost…
MN officials made a wrong choice today.
They know cases & positivity were declining well before a "pause" began & continued to decline at a similar rate thereafter
Yet they chose to insist the pause worked.
People deserve honesty.
MN officials made a wrong choice today.
They know cases & positivity were declining well before a "pause" began & continued to decline at a similar rate thereafter
Yet they chose to insist the pause worked.
People deserve honesty.
Instead of saying to the citizens: "You know, we are not sure the "pause" worked... the cases and positivity rate were declining before the pause began and this decline has continued at about the same rate after"
They instead went out of their way to insist it worked.
Why?
They instead went out of their way to insist it worked.
Why?
This is the graph MN officials used to "show" its citizens that the "pause" worked...
No dates, no scales, no axes...
But it can tell their story...
is the graph MN officials used to "show" its citizens that the "pause" worked...No dates, no scales, no axes...
But it can tell their story...
“What you see there was November… at the top of that peak or right before it is where we asked you to pause….”
- Governor Walz 12/16
We already established that this is false. The pause started 11 days after the peak.
See tweets above.
- Governor Walz 12/16
We already established that this is false. The pause started 11 days after the peak.
See tweets above.
To attempt to demonstrate that the recent shutdown worked, the Governor also claimed that Minnesota’s drop off “has been steeper than our surrounding states”
Has it?
Let's check if that is true...
Has it?
Let's check if that is true...
I've already noted in the past few days that the entire upper midwest has seen a peak and decline almost in unison over the past weeks... regardless of shutdowns and mitigations...
See below.
See below.
So has Minnesota somehow outpaced everyone on the decline with this shutdown or "pause" as the officials try to convince us?
From peak to 3 weeks after peak, Minnesota is last
From peak to 3 weeks after peak, Minnesota is last
What about post Thanksgiving?
Did Minnesota somehow pull away from the pack after Thanksgiving with its shutdown?
Nope. They go as the rest go...
Did Minnesota somehow pull away from the pack after Thanksgiving with its shutdown?
Nope. They go as the rest go...
MN officials have all this data. They know all of this.
So, we are back to the question…
Are we really "in this together?"
And if so, why not be honest with your citizens… and seek to build trust instead of resentment and support instead of resistance?
So, we are back to the question…
Are we really "in this together?"
And if so, why not be honest with your citizens… and seek to build trust instead of resentment and support instead of resistance?
