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As governors across the country fell into line in recent weeks, South Dakota's top elected leader stood firm: There would be no statewide order to stay home.
But now South Dakota is home to one of the largest single coronavirus clusters anywhere in the United States, with more than 300 workers at a giant pork-processing plant falling ill. With the case numbers continuing to spike, the company was forced to announce the indefinite closure of the facility Sunday, threatening the U.S. food supply.
"A shelter-in-place order is needed now. It is needed today," said Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, whose city is at the center of South Dakota's outbreak and who has had to improvise with voluntary recommendations in the absence of statewide action.
A total of six counties have "substantial community spread"... which translate to "five or more cases of community-acquired COVID-19 in a county or a distinct group of cases in a single area (e.g., city or county)." Oh my G*d, fiver more! The horror!
South Dakota has a total of 868 in the entire state. And a total number of six deaths attributed to COVID-19. Massachusetts identified 1296 new cases (and 113 deaths) in the past 24 hours
I half expect her to say she just found out asymptomatic people could infect other people. It's a game-changer.
Doesn't this only really apply if you can prove that their equivalent of patient 0 originally caught the virus engaging in an activity that would have been covered by a stay at home order? Anything beyond that is unfounded conjecture since most food manufacturers are exempted from such orders so would have been open anyway.
A total of six counties have "substantial community spread"... which translate to "five or more cases of community-acquired COVID-19 in a county or a distinct group of cases in a single area (e.g., city or county)." Oh my G*d, fiver more! The horror!
South Dakota has a total of 868 in the entire state. And a total number of six deaths attributed to COVID-19. Massachusetts identified 1296 new cases (and 113 deaths) in the past 24 hours
Add another 120 today for a 15% growth rate. There are over 1000 cases per million residents - more than Florida.
Sure don't listen to the health experts in SD, listen to Kushner and use the miracle drug Hydroxychloroquine. This theory that it doesn't happen in remote areas is profoundly stupid. They have a factory of 3,700 employees and just because it wasn't here in early April is senseless.
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But the governor continued to resist. Instead, she used a press briefing Monday to announce trials of a drug that President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted as a potential breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus, despite a lack of scientific evidence.
"It's an exciting day," she boasted, repeatedly citing her conversations with presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Doesn't this only really apply if you can prove that their equivalent of patient 0 originally caught the virus engaging in an activity that would have been covered by a stay at home order? Anything beyond that is unfounded conjecture since most food manufacturers are exempted from such orders so would have been open anyway.
So they needed to have 300 infections from one business to use precautions, a little late now. How many ICU beds do they have in Sioux City. They have the advantage of seeing how this disease spread around the country, they should have taken action sooner not wait until its arrived.
Doesn't this only really apply if you can prove that their equivalent of patient 0 originally caught the virus engaging in an activity that would have been covered by a stay at home order?
Yes. And stay-at-home orders aren't self-enforcing. Plenty of Covidiots in states that do have such orders in place are violating them, unfortunately. (Often without facing any real repercussions, either, because they are holding their prohibited gatherings in private locales out of sight of the authorities or because the local law enforcement simply can't or won't cite them for violating the stay-at-home order.)
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