Walz Calls for Local District Decision-Making While Pushing Guidelines and Requirements for Matrix, Extensive Testing and Quarantines

by: Linda Bell

Governor Walz, Lieutenant Governor Flannahan, MDH Commissioner Jan Malcolm, MDE Commissioner Mary-Cathryn Ricker and MDH Deputy Commissioner Heather Mueller decreed that school districts would be making their own decisions. MACC applauds state leadership in tipping their hat to local control! That’s the way it’s supposed to be!  Unfortunately, decisions and on-going school operations will be controlled through “constant consultation” and advisement on regulatory policies originated in the Dept of Health particularly and the Dept of Education. Oh, no… We’ve seen this show before!

If ever there was a time to get into your local school board, NOW IS THE TIME!  We’re talking about the lives of our children and it is time to step up and get into all school board meetings beginning in August and continuing… During the press conference it was made clear that the current plan will continue to evolve.

Apparently the “local decision part” is  a “data-driven approach”, written by the Dept. of Health, in the 18-page, “Safe Learning Plan for the 2020-2021 School Year.” This “data-driven approach” or Matrix framework is the biggest deciding factor in opening or not opening a school. In essence, if a county has more than 50 cases those districts will be prohibited from offering any in-person instruction! https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/schools/k12planguide.pdf

Considering last spring’s failed “distance learning” model, we would hope that some districts would rely more on their own district regional statistics rather than total stats in very large counties. Districts can also say no to the whole deal! It is high time for districts to start standing up.

State Goals in Making a District Decision

Hitting on the theme of “the state raising the child,” Gov. Walz said he is very responsible for the care of all of the state’s children and that “the school is the one thing in society that binds us all together.”  Enter Stage Right —–> Arne Duncan! We gazed into the mind of the governor last year as he advocated for the “Great Start for ALL Minnesota Children Act” which prods babies into schools and home visiting prenatal to 3 years old, at one point a mandate.

Walz stated, “There will be extensive testing in the schools.”

This act will unleash a multitude of corporations and businesses who will make staggering amounts of money on daily temperature checks, Covid testing and thousands and thousands of Contact Tracers. We are creating a cottage-industry to fight a pandemic that hasn’t truly panned out.

Minnesota: Expect extensive academic testing and extensive health testing. It’s called surveillance data tracking and MACC has written about this for years.

Building an education system “for the long haul” is the key to this plan. This is a plan not just for the fall but for years to come. “Wearing masks will keep cases down. Social distancing helps.” It is interesting to ponder if the matrix used for schools will cross over to businesses, also?

In this graphic, districts will be making decisions (in consultation with agencies) about the total number of cases over 14 days divided by the county population/10,000 totaling the 14-day county level case rate per 10,000.  Commissioner Malcolm stated that, “There will be a detailed consultative process for local schools to apply these guidelines.”

Selecting a Learning Model for School Opening (50+ cases = distance learning) This count includes prison Covid cases and yet, these individuals are not part of the general population.

At MACC, we are curious as to why the Dept of Health chose to use “cases” as opposed to “deaths?” Minnesota likely has lots of cases and most are asymptomatic. The death percentage rate is truly the all-important number and we encourage the Governor to use the death count instead.

Additionally, shouldn’t we be questioning the data, which is the foundation of the Matrix framework? Many individuals in Minnesota have been told they possibly have Covid but never received a confirming test. These individuals were counted as “cases” nevertheless.  Also, the case count is skewed because cases represent the number of the tests, which could be 4 – 10 tests, on 1 individual. In the statistical count, 4 individuals appear to have Covid when in actuality there were 4 tests given the same individual.

[MDH Commissioner Malcolm] The state has set up “Incident Command Teams” in every public school. ICT will evaluate the ability to implement REQUIRED and RECOMMENDED health best practices in guidance.”   One must question why the governor is pushing “extensive testing” in the schools? Will in-person learning students be tested or will this extend to hybrid and distance learning students, also? Will their families be tested? Add to this the unneccesary and nefarious contact tracing and we have a society-wide disaster with continual quarantines.

Requirements for In-Person and Hybrid Learning

Determining when to turn the dial backwards

The Governor’s plan is incredibly concerning not only for academic progress but also concerns regarding mental health for our next generation. The plan will not lead to trust among children and/or teachers. In fact, MACC has witnessed this sort of state takeover of school districts in the past with the Common Core Standards, a corporate led takeover using federal and state structures. Let’s move in a positive direction!

MACC encourages Governor Walz and Commissioner’s Malcolm and Ricker to:

• Remove the Matrix framework due to faulty unreliable data.
• Allow local school boards, administrators, teachers and especially parents to make their own local decisions as to how to reopen schools, write their own guidelines and create what is best for their community’s children.

• Testing
• Continued/Continuous Testing
• Contact Tracing
• Case Investigation
• Investigative Workers
• Follow-up Workers
• Providing essential services, including alternative housing
• Information Technology
• Surveillance / Data will be collected on each individual
• No consent language included (although a later Senate bill did offer a “consent bill of rights”)

by Linda Bell

UNESCO Collecting Personal Data on ALL Children

Why does the most powerful international and intergovernmental organization in the world want to know your child? UNESCO is aggressively pushing all children (and their parents) to acknowledge and accept the importance of their 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The sustainable development goals are foremost in what is taught in our children’s curriculum and testing. If the data is available (and it is!), UNESCO can have access into your child’s inner thoughts on the ideas expressed within the goals.

The embedded UNESCO news brief advocates all countries achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #4 – A Quality Education for All – prior to the Agenda 2030 deadline. If you’ve not read much on the UNESCO website before, they routinely nag countries toward total obedience for which countries compliantly follow in lockstep. https://sdg.uis.unesco.org/2020/01/22/our-new-years-resolution-for-2020-let-data-be-our-guide/

UNESCO’s 2020 New Year’s Resolution is “Let Data be Your Guide!”

UNESCO will measure data globally by tracking learning outcomes at 3 points in a child’s educational journey. How will UNESCO use this information? What are they going to do with your child’s personal information?? How will it affect your child getting into college and/or into the career that they desire?

According to the article, 33 of 43 sustainable development goal #4 indicators will be tracked on each child. Additional sustainable development goals #1 – #3 and #5 – #17, outside of SDG #4, will also be tracked.

UNESCO uses sub-points, called indicators, which signify a child’s mastery of specified subject matter. “The indicators are conceptually clear and have international methodologies and standards.” This is a direct reference to the Common Core standards and teaching/learning methodologies. CCSS standards are also data points that are tracked and are based on the SDGs.

UNESCO’s Institute of Statistics (UIS) holds the Global Education Databank.

The ugly truth is that the UN/UNESCO is centralizing power via punitive policies that repress all national and state laws. New laws are enacted and replaced with the language of sustainable development goals. This action is a removal of the freedoms we’ve enjoyed in the United States. Directing the UN SDGs is the technocracy. If you’ve had enough of Gates, Bezos, and the other technocrats, you might want to look into the technocracy.

Understand now why they want “distance learning” or a combination of distance and on-campus? Either way, with the technocracy at the helm, it’s a win-win for UNESCO’s on-going inculcation of America’s children.

Minnesota SF 4500 & HF 4579 – Testing and Contact Tracing Bills Move Forward – Know Your Rights!

What SF 4500 and HR 4579 sets into motion is horrific to envision. These are just not “any” bills. These bills point to the destruction of our society – a society that will never be the same again.

Testing and contact tracing programs should never be a prerequisite for opening state’s businesses and schools! Do you see what they’ve just done?

We can go back to “normal” they say and reopen the state, as long as everyone submits to a daily fever check, numerous tests including DNA blood tests and of course lots of contact tracing questions – who were you with, how long, according to your cell phone you spent one hour with XX but declined to tell us. It’s a small price to pay for your freedom, right?

 The Senate has refused the House language and worked toward an amended bill, SF 4500, that focuses more on a “Bill of Rights” for individuals excluding employees (while handing out more grants to businesses in order to install the testing and tracing.) More on employers/employees later. SF 4500 https://www.senate.mn/committees/2019-2020/3095_Committee_on_Health_and_Human_Services_Finance_and_Policy/scs4500a16%20(003).pdf

The House bill – HR 4579 –

is a mandatory document on all accounts and includes “alternative housing”. How do these different bills work going forward? The legislature will close it’s doors on May 18^th (Monday).  Small conference committees will conference together the House and Senate bills and likely we’ll end with one health omnibus bill where they pass a little good and mostly bad (for the sake of the good).  HR 4579 (3^rd version of bill) https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF4579&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2020&session_number=0

 So before we get into the bill, let me be clear…

• The Senate Health Committee via Dept of Health spokesperson Huff stated that the virus has infected Minnesotans and is widespread. Widespread! So many are either negative or asymptomatic, ie. positive without symptoms, and their immune systems fought off the virus, ie. herd immunity.

• The health community has been weighing in, according to Sen Jensen in committee yesterday, and nurses and doctors are acknowledging that if we were to contact trace for the virus, a respiratory illness which isn’t normally a contact tracing issue, but if we were to contact trace that should have happened in December 2019 or January 2020. Essentially, the horse is out of the barn and the need no longer exists.

Let me also be clear!

• The Senate rightly put together an individual’s Bill of Rights regarding testing and tracing. This an exceptional plus! However, just like in education and every other sector, they cannot protect our privacy. In other words, it sounds good on paper. In the UK just last week, plans for the new Coronavirus app to contain all testing and contact tracing information was leaked via Google’s platform. The fact that many apps use Google as a platform is very concerning especially for this application. Google has breeched more information on individuals than any other entity and has been sued more than any another other entity. As much as the Senate believes in our outdated Chapter 13 statutes, they will not protect us. What about the Department of Health? Will they or can they protect our data? https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nhs-covid-19-app-health-status-future

• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) makes it clear that they are closing watching and in opposition to how people may be tracked and predatorially surveilled. They’ve submitted a FOIA for information from the CDC and Dept of Health regarding all communications with technology companies. https://www.engadget.com/aclu-privacy-principles-contact-tracing-220040940.html

All to say…. Contact Tracing is not necessary! Contact Tracing will hire an army of “medical military” and it will be used to control us all while continuing to collapse our state financially!

SF 4500 (an amendment titled A16) is easily broken into three sections or subdivisions, definitions, testing and tracing bill of rights and grants to employers.

In Subd 1

Definitions, Line 1.12 and 1.13 A positive case is only positive when the individual has received a positive diagnostic test. Up until now, positive case status has been conferred with a simple listing of symptoms, even over the phone. This ties a positive diagnostic test result with a “positive case.” Good definition. 

In Subd 2

Testing and Contact Tracing Bill of Rights

Line 1.15 the word “employees” was removed. Background: At Tuesday hearing, Sen Abeler expressed the possible difficulties to keep “employees” and “employers” as part of the Bill of Rights because of existing employment law. At the Thursday hearing, a Chamber of Commerce spokesperson, Bentley Graves, stated that he appreciated the change in language in the bill since a host of guidance from the WHO and CDC as well as Executive Order(s) are guiding Minnesota employer reopenings. Evidently, employers are being what they can and what they can not do. MACC is grieved that the senators removed protections for employees.

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Subd. 2, Line 1. 18 and 1.19 No testing on an individual without written consentubd. 2 Line 1.20 – 1.22 An individual who tests positive for Covid-19 is not required to cooperate with contract tracing and may refuse to provide information.

Subd 2 Line 1.23 – 1.25 A commissioner’s contracted vendor must provide a Tennessen Warning to individuals prior to contact tracing. A Tennessen Warning is a Minnesota statute that warns citizens that their data is about to be taken.

Subd 2 Line 1.26 – 1.29 Testing results are considered as a health record and shall not be disclosed without written consent of individuals. The word, “written” was removed from this line and in 2 other lines. (Remember that Governor Walz EO to have all health records for those who’ve tested positively be sent to 500 police departments. (Perhaps this line is in place for when the Governor relinquishes his emergency powers?)

Subd 2 Line 1:30 – 2:6 Contact tracing data is considered private data. The commissioner “shall” established procedures and safeguards to ensure data will not be released, included an individual’s address of residence or specific individual information.

“Shall” should be changed to “must”!

Line 2.7 – 2.11 “If an asymptomatic individual refuses to be tested for COVID-19 as part of the screening process, the Commissioner shall not have the authority to pursue an ex parte order (Statute 144.4195) authorizing isolation or quarantine of the individual.”

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Subd 3: Grants to Employers

Line 2.12 – 2.17 The commissioner shall award grants to employers to assist the employer in establishing COVID-19 testing of employees. The commissioner will be in charge of the process and determine amount and number of grants. Priority given to employers that involve high-risk sites and available to employers of 100 employees or less.

This grant subdivision was an add-on that was not well received by everyone on the committee. Will these employer grants further incentivize employers to implement agency policy?

Friends, You are going to have to know your rights, ie. your Constitutional Bill of Rights and know this legislation when it is passed. This is partially what you will use to protect your children and your family. As a parent, you have parental rights to raise your child as you feel best, whether educationally or in their health care. At any time, Com. Malcolm or Gov. Walz could modify anything passed by the legislature.

It’s time to stop being “Minnesota Nice”. We must get loud! You must be ready to stand up for your own inalienable rights, those rights that God gives to us. Only look to Washington and other states where the Department of Health is already implementing testing and tracing.  You will recognize our need to pray fervently and stand up for our families! 

Remember these words?

War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength. George Orwell, 1984.