Minnesota Governor and Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz filled his state’s nursing homes with Covid patients amid 2020’s “pandemic” and doubled down on his actions when questioned on the wave of completely avoidable infections and deaths that followed. When Walz’s policy was in effect, nursing homes and assisted living facilities accounted for around 80% of total Covid-related deaths in Minnesota.
“The rest of us, we may self-isolate, but where are we going to put [these] people?” Walz said to the media at a May 2020 press conference, where he defended his decision to fill Minnesota’s nursing homes with Covid patients, who he says had “recovered” but were “still in that [Covid] mode.”
“This was what everyone was doing,” Walz explained, justifying his nursing home policy by saying that other governors, like the infamous Andrew Cuomo, were doing the same thing.
“This was not a mistake,” Walz insisted. “It wasn’t like no one thought about this. There was complexity in how you deal with this.”
At the same press conference, Walz even minimized the severity of the massive nursing home die-off as just a regular part of American medicine, telling the media that “if you are going to die in an American hospital, the number one thing that will kill you is hospital-acquired infections. That kills 90,000 people a year.”
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Walz’s Covid response has come into focus as he joins Kamala Harris on the Democrats’ 2024 presidential ticket and nursing home deaths are far from the only issue at play when it comes to Walz’s Covid record.
Throughout 2020, Walz enforced stiff lockdowns on Minnesota citizens, keeping law-abiding Minnesotans in their homes as city streets were turned over to communistic, criminal mobs after the overdose death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, kicking off deadly riots that spanned the entire country.
When Minnesota finally began to re-open, Walz enforced mask and vaccine mandates.
Additionally, Tim Walz presided over America’s largest case of Covid fraud, with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars being stolen from programs to feed and support locked-down, vulnerable children.
According to The Washington Examiner:
Plenty of governors’ states were bilked by pandemic relief fraud, but Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz oversaw the most egregious case.
Roughly $250 million that was intended to pay for meals for hungry children went instead into the pockets of fraudsters, according to federal prosecutors who charged 70 people with operating the massive scheme.
A state audit said the Minnesota Department of Education missed repeated warning signs. The audit doesn’t specifically fault the governor, but Rep. Lisa Demuth, the top Republican in the state House of Representatives, said the problem rests with him.
“One hundred percent of the fraud lands on the shoulders of Gov. Walz,” she said. “We have systemic fraud in the state of Minnesota, and it has not been taken seriously.”