Minnesota remains on lockdown under @GovTimWalz‘s current lockdown regime at least until May 4. Gov. Walz promulgated the lockdown regime on March 25 on the assertion that, absent his order, 74,000 Minnesotans would die of COVID-19. 
Since that date he has backtracked, reshuffled, and talked, talked, talked. The guy can talk more or less like a normal Minnesotan, but faster, and at great length.
Despite his mastery of the press covering him, Governor Walz apparently would prefer not to take questions that seriously question the assumptions of his lockdown regime.
Walz has to answer in some fashion to the legislature. Republicans hold a majority in the state senate.
Walz has to answer in some fashion to the legislature. Republicans hold a majority in the state senate.
They have been asking Walz about the model that underlies the lockdown regime. At the bottom of this post I have embedded the handout he has provided to legislators. What’s it all about?
“The goal of the model is to provide decision makers with a directional sense based on empirical information about how a range of options would play out in the course of the epidemic.”
**As of this morning, Minnesota has 111 deaths attributed to COVID-19. The median age of decedents is 85 with an age range that continues to run between 56 and 100. More than 2/3 of the deaths have occurred at nursing home and assisted-care living facilities.
***The number of those hospitalized in intensive care as of today is 106.
(See the Department of Health COVID-19 Situation Update.)
(See the Department of Health COVID-19 Situation Update.)
