It's just so interesting to me

It is just so interesting and intriguing to me that on today's COVID-19 report in Minnesota, a full 29 percent of the new "cases" originated in Hennepin County, where approximately 22 percent of the residents of Minnesota live. I have to wonder why all of their mitigation efforts are not working? They are utilizing just about every COVID-19 mitigation idea under the sun short of full lock downs and business closures. Perhaps they should mitigate better? Maybe triple mask and mandate quadruple jabs?

This is just so fascinating to me: if you extrapolated that out for Pope County (population 11,557 and 5 new cases today), you'd get 545 cases in Hennepin County...instead, Hennepin County's number today is 804 new cases. Keep in mind: the COVID-19 mitigation in Pope County is almost nil. One would understand if there's what experts call an "abnormally high" level of COVID-19 where there's little to no mitigation. Why is there high COVID-19 spread in areas with high (extreme?) levels of mitigation?

Speaking of Pope County, our B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team gets back in action with a non-conference border battle game at Minnewaska Area high school tomorrow night. They have every expectation that if they play hard for both halves of the game, they will improve to 3-2 going into the Christmas vacation. They have two games next week, which is outlined in this week's December 23 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper (page 9).