This is likely going on everywhere...

Nashville Democrat Leaders Knowingly Lied About COVID-19 Info

The story about Nashville’s city leaders knowingly keeping COVID-19 information from the public in order to keep the city locked down is now going viral, as well it should. The emails that were discovered by local reporters effectively show that city leadership knew the Coronavirus was not as contagious in certain atmospheres as advertised and hid that information from the public in order to keep the city in lockdown.

Thousands of jobs were wiped out based on a lie and business owners are likely receiving phone calls as this is being written that urge them to take legal action against the city’s leadership for hurting them and their employees, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck and have lived in turmoil since the closures began.

If the information that the health department in Nashville received is the same being received in many other cities, then Democrat leadership across the country have likely taken the same steps as the Nashville leadership did.

If so, not only are we looking at nationwide lockdowns that were wholly unnecessary, but other questions must be asked. Questions such as: Who was pressuring all of these Democrat leaders to take the same exact steps? Was this move agreed upon by other leaders? When? Do communications from Democrat offices exist that would give us this answer?

The American people deserve an answer and it’s clear that Democrats aren’t going to give it to them. In fact, the Nashville city leadership openly directed one of its spokesmen to be vague about things. Democrats are clearly keeping their cards close to their chest and requiring that people go through the task of getting Freedom of Information Act requests in order to pry that info from them.

There seems to be very little interest by a lot of people when it comes to how much information local leaders had that was hidden from the public. The Powerline Bloggers have been having an ongoing issue with our Governor and his handling of the pandemic. They had to actually go to court when their press credentials were taken away after asking some tough questions. They are back with their credentials but are still not allowed to ask questions. 

The Minnesota state Covid website keeps much of the relevant information either well hidden or actually hidden. Big easy to read graphs were taken down, once they started showing the percentages of deaths occurring with the elderly. 

The Governor continued to use a model provided by some University of Minnesota Students that grossly overstated the amount of deaths that Minnesota would have, even though the model had been largely discredited. In one press conference they revealed an updated model that had started their projections a couple week earlier. The projections were already off and had overstated what had actually happened by approximately double. If you cannot get within a few percentages of the actual number calculating it only a week or two out, how can you expect anyone to take you serious?

But apparently they were able to get those making the decisions to take them seriously. Walz spent much time explaining how Minnesota was likely to see upwards of 70,000 dead from Covid and that draconian measures in locking everything down was the only way to prevent it. Of course having borders with states like Iowa, and North and South Dakota gave us easy comparisons. Those counties and towns from western and southern Minnesota did not do any better than the close proximity areas of those neighboring states.  

I do believe that it is telling that while Republican Governors had a myriad of different approached depending on what part of the country and what sort of population they had, the Democrats were actually all in lockstep. Why would Montana (where they have a Democratic Governor) lock down the entire state in the same manner as New York or New Jersey, rather than follow the lead of what Wyoming, Utah, and the Dakotas did? It does give you the impression that the sort of one size fits all approach favored by every single blue state Governor must have been coordinated by someone, somewhere. It cannot be a coincidence that they all came up with the same answer, even as they were all asking different questions.