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Facts thread on #ReopenMN:The list of businesses published by #ReopenMN is an HTML page of a Google Sheet that is updated every 5 min. They publish it here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSGN94JzSWHaSRUunW_t9XUd3_zWyGTiWmvVkOlrkXPiXuaN206RS23r8FcDRpriEUtyne-mxCmlqnX/pubhtml?gid=12741554&single=true
I copied their data exactly into another spreadsheet and made some pivot tables
The original sheet has a total of 151 rows right now (12/17 11:30p CT) of which 58 of them only have a county name listed, i.e. the “Business Name(s)” field is blank. So that’s more than 1/3 of the businesses chose not to provide their names, they’re anonymous.
When you count businesses by industry, 60% of the 151 listed (90 in total) are Restaurant/Bars while 17% are Gym/Fitness Centers. 7% of the “100s” of businesses reported by media are “Supporters of the Cause”, so not real businesses.
Masks have been proven to reduce the spread of the virus (see & https://mediahub.ku.edu/media/Masks/1_49bb9aid) so this might be a good list of places to avoid if you’re using science and facts to guide you
In Hennepin county, the biggest county by population in MN, there were 14 blank entries for restaurants, i.e. “anonymous” businesses and only one restaurant that listed a name
According to @WeRRestaurants there were 10,681 eating and drinking place locations in MN in 2018. 90 restaurants on this list is barely 1% of all restaurants in the state. That doesn’t seem like a “movement”.
In conclusion, please look at the numbers and real data. The #ReopenMN coalition has had a great deal of local and national press, but their own numbers just don’t support the idea that it’s a “movement”. Thank you reading.
Also, it would be nice if the @kare11 author Diane Sandberg of this piece would correct the article to read more like “Less than 150 businesses...” as opposed to “More than 150 businesses...” because it’s currently just plain wrong. https://www.kare11.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/reopen-minnesota-coalition-businesses-defy-covid-mandate/89-e2b91307-b03a-4c86-93a4-4a48214978e0
Jason @DeRushaJ have you seen this data analysis? @WCCO is claiming “more than 150” when it’s really less than. Please see this thread for evidence, update your story. https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/12/16/more-than-200-businesses-plan-to-reopen-this-week-in-defiance-of-governors-order/
Follow up from last night: there’s another spreadsheet that #ReopenMN published, this one with no restaurant names (why?) so it’s totally anonymous: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSGN94JzSWHaSRUunW_t9XUd3_zWyGTiWmvVkOlrkXPiXuaN206RS23r8FcDRpriEUtyne-mxCmlqnX/pubhtml?gid=1017412857&single=true&fbclid=IwAR2NJI9YTRQ89jFDDTd3Im4ajJlH51W2lkPBp7VB3DUwhiKCUVJAuueEwZQ
I made one more pivot table
Counting their second list gives you 226 anonymous businesses in MN, with 123 of them of type “Restaurant/Bar” — 54% of the total. Thing is, that’s now STILL around 1% of total restaurants. Still not a movement.
