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    Random COVID-19 Tests To Be Conducted Door To Door In Minnesota

    Random COVID-19 Tests To Be Conducted Door To Door In Minnesota
    Jeanne Ryan
    Published: September 16, 2020

    Starting this week and going until the end of the month, if your address is randomly selected you can expect a visit from a team of local or state health workers that will be in a specially marked car. The Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response, or CASPER teams, will arrive in a car marked "COVID-19 Survey Team." They will be wearing masks, vests with name tags, and you will not be contacted in advance that they will be coming.

    Dr. Ruth Lynfield, Minnesota Department of Health state epidemiologist, said in a statement dated Tuesday, Sept. 15 and reported by Duluth News Tribune "Through the CASPER survey, we hope to better understand how COVID-19 is spreading in Minnesota and how it is affecting people. With a new virus, we have to learn as we go and adapt our response based on new data. Information we gather in this survey will allow us to refine our recommendations to best meet the needs of our Minnesota communities in the prevention of COVID-19.”

    The team members are hoping to ask you a few questions, take a nasal swab, prick your finger for blood and at some point let you know the results if you currently have or ever have had COVID-19. The survey is voluntary and you can participate in all of it or some of it. They hope to be able to test an average of seven households picked at random in 137 cities totaling about 1,200 households.

    In a statement from the Minnesota Department of Health Dr. Lynfield reported by The Duluth News Tribune " We encourage people to participate in the survey if their household is selected. Along with being able to receive free, in-home testing for current and past COVID-19 infection, this is a unique opportunity for people to help us learn more about the impacts of COVID-19 and aid in our efforts to fight this pandemic."

    A few months ago I had some symptoms of what I believed was bronchitis and was having trouble breathing with a chronic cough. I did an e-visit with a Dr. and was encouraged to go get a COVID-19 test done which I did, and the results were negative. It was found that I did indeed have bronchitis and was put on an antibiotic. It was honestly a very nerve racking few days waiting for my results and given the fact that I had been going into work, even though I was social distancing and wearing a mask and washing my hands I was nervous for my co-workers. I personally know of many people who do not have insurance and are healthy so they have not felt the need to get tested, but are worried if they do get sick because of the fact they are uninsured.

    I do understand the need to test, but I am wondering how the average person would react to strangers coming to their door wanting to conduct these tests. Will they willingly let them come in their house and do these fairly invasive tests? I guess only time will tell if this will be successful, but personally I feel like people right now now more than ever are more Leary of strangers then ever before.


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    https://mix108.com/random-covid-19-t...-in-minnesota/

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    The survey is voluntary and you can participate in all of it or some of it.
    No thanks.
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    The survey is voluntary and you can participate in all of it or some of it.
    For now...
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    Hopefully Danke will be able to completely avoid this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    Hopefully Danke will be able to completely avoid this.
    I already got mine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

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    Can I interest anyone in a high quality driveway gate and fencing package?

    From a business standpoint, I wish they'd announce that stuff in my state.
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    Quote Originally Posted by devil21 View Post
    Can I interest anyone in a high quality driveway gate and fencing package?

    From a business standpoint, I wish they'd announce that stuff in my state.
    Is that the line of work you are in?

    Serious question: what sort of remote opening driveway gate would work in my area, which is subject to snowfalls up to three feet at a time?

    Does anybody make some sort of "self clearing" model?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Is that the line of work you are in?
    Something like that. It's more of a niche hobby that pays than a line of work since there's not a lot of demand (or budgets) for drive gates.

    Serious question: what sort of remote opening driveway gate would work in my area, which is subject to snowfalls up to three feet at a time?

    Does anybody make some sort of "self clearing" model?
    There are expensive options for openers that help an opener operate more reliably in very cold climates (battery warmers, opener warmers) but no, there's nothing that will literally power a gate to clear feet of snow away from the gate. In a really cold climate, a direct 120v/240v powered slide gate is probably the best gate option. Ice is the arch enemy of driveway gates and openers.
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    Interesting....


    MDH: Armed residents confront COVID-19 testing team in Minnesota neighborhood


    KSTP
    Updated: September 18, 2020 01:55 PM
    Created: September 18, 2020 01:00 PM
    A COVID-19 testing team was confronted by armed individuals this week in a Minnesota community, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.

    Although the exact location was not disclosed, a department spokesperson said MDH teams have been in different neighborhoods throughout the state since September 14, conducting the CASPER survey.
    https://kstp.com/news/mdh-armed-resi...-2020/5867003/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Landon View Post
    The survey is voluntary and you can participate in all of it or some of it.
    Soon it will be you can test now or test later, like phone updates.
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