Minnesota’s government is sending some mixed messages. At the same time that there’s a statewide requirement to wear masks inside of businesses, I get this message on the outside of an envelope sent to me to get me to renew my car’s license tabs:
Inside the envelope, along with the form to renew my tabs, no further info about how I might be able to save lives by showing up to a crowded government office and potentially exposing myself to one or more people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, or potentially exposing them to me if I’ve got an asymptomatic but transmissible case of my own. I’m left to guess how that would save lives. Perhaps I could rummage around and find a form to sign up as an organ donor, but I already signed up for that years ago, says so right on my driver’s license.
Meh, I’ll pass. At the risk of not saving lives, I’ll stay home and sell off some Blurt, buy some LEO, and at least think about powering up some Hive even though it’s not #hpud yet.
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The study, which was of a single health system, finds that mortality has dropped among hospitalized patients by 18 percentage points since the pandemic began. Patients in the study had a 25.6% chance of dying at the start of the pandemic; they now have a 7.6% chance…
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