Minnesota

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As an ex-smoker, I can do some convincing serious coughing on a split second's notice.

But I wasn't thinking, I was just stunned, just getting thru the conversation.

Actually he's a real good guy, the pillar of the community (our 60 unit townhouse complex), and I'm very lucky to have him as my next door neighbor, on the other side of my north wall in fact. But on the Covid thing, he just doesn't seem to think about it when he's interacting with people. Though he said he was vaxxed (haven't talked to him about that stuff since before the booster era, so don't know if he's boosted or not).

Bonus, the Minnesta Covid egghead's report, 1/3/22
http://view.connect.mpr.org/?qs=b61861959c2b2d56c30c02099aab800c24ed76323ab930a8fd6099f5d7e1645722d30358aef90091b6c3c628bbc83607105338cf9589bcacd1fb2b7db6769f01e0f16b96ba022ce00af097d47548242a
-- a lot of reading but not necessary, just scrolling thru the incredible graphs. Depressing how all along cases and positivity during this winter's wave was doing better than the previous winter wave -- until suddenly it's not. Just one example:



Edit: sorry, another one -- it's surging in the metro area way way, way way more than Greater Minn:



Late Edit:David Montgomery, the author thinks the recent rise in Minnesota cases is primarily either a result of the Christmas holidays or the Omicron surge. (Of course its some of both, but what is the primary cause?) Then he says the sudden disparity between the metro and the outstate areas is key evidence that its probably omicron that got going in the metro first. and we'll soon enough see a surge outstate before long. Along with the fact that the huge surges in the northeast U.S. and the southern U.S., just to name a couple of regions, are unambiguously Omicron-fueled surges.

Note I didn't say "and New Years holiday" -- the test results that the above Jan. 3 report is based on came from tests done before the end of the year.