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Macalester College pivots today to start school year strictly online. Guess they didn't feel masks were the cure all? At $56K/year it would be nice to see 50% or more of the currently enrolled students for this fall tell the college and administration "Screw you. I'm not coming back for online classes." BTW no double digit deaths in a day in almost 6 weeks in MN and 75% of deaths from LTC facilities.

That the new student union will finally be done by......2026???

Cass County in ND has the highest number of total and active cases in the state yet the last death in Cass County was 28 days ago IIRC.

Summit League just postponed fall sports.

"Effective" on the vaccine front according to Fauci and the CDC is 50% or above.

ND HS FB practice started today. #wearafacemasksavelives

Basically a core group of underachievers. Alway great to see the handshake line.

To get a SJW badge and certificate is it still just mailing in $20 along with 2 Fruity Pebbles box tops? Asking for a friend........

Big 10 to announce tomorrow no fall FB

Could the NWS and local TV weather stop interrupting my watching of the PGA Championship and the NHL?? Don't they know none of us should be concerned about a possible tornado during this pandemic? #saferathome #flattenthecurvenotmyhouse

No idea if any correlation but there's a guy that regularly sends letters to the editor to the Fargo Forum with almost identical verbiage as Haydouche1. Heaven forbid there's potentially two a##holes like that out in society.

OK Mrs. Osterholm

Nope. This country has never been taken down a rabbit hole like this before. Watch all the lemmings in MN line up for another 6 week lockdown....protests, looting, riotong and thuggery excluded.

Per the Strib Osterholm pitching another 6 week lockdown/sat at home order for MN. This clown is worse than Fauci.

You mean this series or the last 4 years?

Toews >>>>> McDavid

MVFC won't play this fall per Forum media

In the Minnesota Department of Health preeser this afternoon they singled out these activities as the main reasons for community spread this summer...."church events, sporting events, family gatherings, parties, concerts and weddings". Can any other rational person see where this is headed? Walz no doubt is sporting a chubby at the thought of locking the state down again. I also noticed the absence of a few other activities from the summer..........how convenient.

Again.....what is the end game you are personally looking for? Is it in deaths? In positive cases? It's simple questions. If it's a mask mandate than you are even more clueless on this subject than I thought. Masks....they help. Not a cure. A vaccine.....it will help. Not a cure. There is not a cure......but most of us would prefer to get on living.

So what are you personally looking for moving forward? No deaths? No positve cases? What would appease you? A majority of the population has no intent on getting the vaccine when its available. Do we still limit kids in school? Do we shut off water and utilities for a birthday party of 10 or more? Do we still have lockdowns in areas where a vast majority didn't get vaccinated? When do we as a country get out of this rabbit hole?

SMH........ What don't you get??? A vaccine isn't a cure. Eradication won't happen with this virus most likely. 1% of all cases/ infections worldwide are classified as critical/serious. At some point even with a vaccine we have to get back to living.......this isn't going away and not everyone is going to die from it.

Yet this is now where the goalpost have now moved to nationwide. Locally the Minnesota Department Health in its initial response to the virus was looking at three things in making public health decisions for the state...….not overwhelming hospitals (never happened), see a steady decrease in death totals (happening) and wanting to see a rolling positivity rate of 15% or lower (happening). Now the shift in policy is needing to see a rolling positivity rate of less the 5% to make public health decisions since the two major issues: deaths and hospitalizations never materialized.

The key stat in all of this is the fact that in this country 2% of the population (85 years and older) accounts for 32+% of Covid deaths...…...but we all should be happy the unemployment rate just dropped to 10.2 %.

Of the roughly 6.2M individuals currently "infected" worldwide 1% are classified to be in serious or critical condition. 99% are in mild condition or asymptotic.