Let Them Play Minnesota's lawsuit

Let Them Play Minnesota's lawsuit might've put the Walz administration, starting with the Minnesota Department of Health, aka MDH, in a difficult position. Previously, Let Them Play Minnesota "filed a lawsuit against Walz for requiring youth athletes to wear masks while competing. Now, the group has amended its complaint to reflect evidence of the Walz administration’s effort to connect COVID-19 deaths in long-term care facilities to youth sports."
This will require some pretty fancy tap-dancing on the state's behalf. That's' because "Let Them Play claims to be in possession of email evidence proving Walz officials engaged in a 'complete fabrication' of the risks associated with youth sporting events." "As people push back on youth sports and whether they really need to be ended, we need to more explicitly tie youth sports to LTC," an unnamed political consultant said in an email, which was sent the same day the governor shut down youth sports, according to the lawsuit. The consultant then described how the Walz administration would defend this shutdown: people are attending youth sports, going out to eat afterwards, and then perhaps going to their jobs in long-term care facilities the next day. "The spread and deaths in LTC can be traced back to youth sports and some of these social settings," the political consultant’s email continued.
Tim Walz's COVID-19 decisions have been capricious at best. Having high school athletes wear masks while competing outdoors is beyond foolish. This isn't how to win a lawsuit:
Malcolm and Ehresmann addressed Let Them Play’s lawsuit in a media briefing call Thursday. Malcolm said they "absolutely do believe" that youth sports have contributed to case outbreaks in long-term care facilities, a conclusion they reached through "in-depth" epidemiology tests.
What people believe is irrelevant. What they can prove is the only thing that matters. Based on this information, the Walz administration is in trouble. Period. Full stop.
An MDH spokesperson told Alpha News that while MDH did "develop and issue guidelines" for transferring hospitalized COVID-19 patients back to long-term care facilities, MDH’s data never showed that this had "a significant, if any, factor in the spread of COVID-19."

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