South Dakota Resisted Shutdown, Now It's a Hotspot

[SweetSue92]

This woman has come up with some of the most ridiculous excuses for not shutting down her state.

Now, they have one of the largest hot spots in the nation with limited health care for the people.

Rural areas don't have very good health care services nor do they have very much available to the people. Nor do they have enough of the proper equipment to handle the amount of people with the virus.

Republicans. The party of death.

South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots.

It's not even close to one of the biggest "hot spots"

 

[SweetSue92]

“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,” the Washington Post reports.

South Dakota Resisted Shutdown, Now It’s a Hotspot

"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," the Washington Post reports."Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said disparagingly, reflect

politicalwire.com

You folks really, really need this crisis to be bad.

When that starts to happen, look out: it means the crisis is not really living up to expectations

 

[Daryl Hunt]

By the way SD only has

South Dakota

868

6

Per Capita, SD is in serious trouble much like Louisiana. It's spread to the rural areas. And MOST of SD is rural. Even including Souix Falls, the total population doesnt' make up more than a couple of burroughs in a normal large city. But it can be a hotspot to spread to other states. We are not alone in this no matter what the "Party of the Rump" politicians keep telling us.

 

[eagle1462010]

Fear Mongering from a damn virus that will do the math no matter how we stomp up and down. The numbers there aren't jack.............Just the left idiots pushing the Narrative.

Most get this and don't even know they have it.............others kills.......just the way it is as these people try to COUNT BODY BAGS.......so they can POINT FINGERS......

Bunch of Wankers

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

I guess we needed a test case..for those that believe the social distancing and stay at home orders were not needed:

South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots.

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.
Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi L. Noem said disparagingly, reflected a “herd mentality.” It was up to individuals — not government — to decide whether “to exercise their right to work, to worship and to play. Or to even stay at home.”
And besides, the first-term Republican told reporters at a briefing this month, “South Dakota is not New York City.”

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.
Increasingly exasperated local leaders, public health experts and front-line medical workers begged Noem to intervene Monday with a more aggressive state response.
“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.

But over the course of last week, the numbers surged as the virus ripped through the city’s Smithfield Foods production plant, a colossus that employs 3,700 people — many of them immigrants — and churns out 18 million servings of pork product per day.
On Monday alone, 57 more workers were confirmed to have positive diagnoses, bringing the total well above 300 — and making it one of the country’s largest clusters. Other major clusters include Cook County Jail in Chicago and the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier.
The Smithfield cases amount to more than a third of the state’s overall total, which stood at 868 on Monday, including six deaths, in a state of nearly 900,000 people.
Over the weekend, Smithfield bowed to growing pressure and said it would shutter the facility indefinitely in a bid to contain the spread — though Smithfield leaders cautioned that the action could severely disrupt the nation’s food supplies. The factory, like other food production facilities, had earlier been deemed essential by the federal government.
The shutdown of the Sioux Falls plant, coupled with other closures, “is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply,” Kenneth Sullivan, Smithfield president and chief executive, said in a statement. “It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running.”

Hey....moron...you need to wait for the actual truth, instead of reacting to the anti-Trump made up story....

Another Dishonest Smear By the Washington Post [with comment by Paul]

Yesterday's Washington Post carried an attack on South Dakota and its governor, Kristi Noem, under the headline South Dakota's Governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation's largest coronavirus hot spots. The Post's article is popular on Twitter, as liberal 'blue...

www.powerlineblog.com

The entire point of the article is that the Smithfield experience proves Governor Noem was wrong not to order a mass closure of businesses.

But wait! It is obvious even to a casual reader that the Post’s attack makes no sense. The article acknowledges that the Smithfield plant had already “been deemed essential by the federal government,” so no order Noem might have issued would have applied to it in any case. The Smithfield experience had nothing to do with Noem’s policy.

One is tempted to stop there. The Post’s attempted smear obviously missed its mark. But let’s continue.

The point of the Post story is to convey the impression that Governor Noem’s reliance on voluntary measures, education, persuasion, and close cooperation with federal agencies, other governors, and the private sector is a failure.

Strikingly absent from the Post’s hit job, however, is the bottom line: how many South Dakotans have actually succumbed to COVID-19? The answer: 6, and none have been reported within the last week.

South Dakota has one of the best coronavirus records of any state, but the Post didn’t tell its readers that. It would have ruined the narrative.

Next: the Smithfield story is actually an interesting one, but the Post tells us essentially nothing about it. First of all, the Sioux Falls facility is massive. It has 3,700 employees, of whom fewer than 10% have tested positive for COVID-19. The Sioux Falls facility is one of the main pork producers in the U.S., turning out around 18 million servings of bacon, pork chops, etc., per day. You may wonder, why were so many diagnostic tests performed on employees at that plant? The answer is that Smithfield implemented an aggressive program, in partnership with two major hospital systems, whereby anyone who entered or left the facility was questioned and had his or her temperature taken. Anyone who reported having a cough, etc., or who showed an elevated temperature was tested for COVID-19.

Moreover, the Post article conveyed the impression that the Smithfield plant might become a ghost facility, closed forever due to South Dakota’s failure to elect a Democratic governor. In fact, the plant will reopen in a matter of days. During the brief time it has been closed, Smithfield has been working intensively with the Centers for Disease Control, OSHA, and others, and is implementing measures as described by the company:

Ahhh yes..good old powerlineblog...a bastion of journalism. I'll not go point by point through your shyte--I've learned better. Just to point out the mortality is not the prime measurement..number of people who have contracted the disease is. In a state of a little less than a million..868 and rising. This makes it, indeed, a hot spot--the per capita number is the one that most intelligent people look at. When you factor in the low population density--it becomes even clearer. Yes, the pork plant is deemed an essential industry..however..a stay at home order might have prevented, or at least slowed, the spread of the virus from the infected workers to the community at large.
In any event, I'm fully on board with letting the States decide the measures they wish to take. If SD wishes to tempt Darwin...I have no issue with it.

I'm always amused at your habit of posting a copy and pasted wall of words..from some dubious source..with little or no actual comment by you, As is your habit, i expect to see the same wall of words time and again..as it substitutes for original thought.

 

[Lesh]

It's not even close to one of the biggest "hot spots"

Per Capita, SD is in serious trouble much like Louisiana. It's spread to the rural areas. And MOST of SD is rural. Even including Souix Falls, the total population doesnt' make up more than a couple of burroughs in a normal large city. But it can be a hotspot to spread to other states. We are not alone in this no matter what the "Party of the Rump" politicians keep telling us.

Trumpers just don't learn till people start dying...and some not even then

 

[Siete]

now theres OVER 500 from the company reported as positive for the virus -

unprotected -

their friends outside the job
all of their friends
and their friends
any human all of those people had contact with
the truck driver that had breakfast at the diner then got in his rig and headed south through 4 states
that list is endless ^^^^^^^^^^

then you get to those 500's family, and repeat the never ending possibilities.

yeah SD is just fukn fine -

dumbass rw's in denial, not so much

 

[Juicin]

now theres OVER 500 from the company reported as positive for the virus -

unprotected -

their friends outside the job
all of their friends
and their friends
any human all of those people had contact with
the truck driver that had breakfast at the diner then got in his rig and headed south through 4 states
that list is endless ^^^^^^^^^^

then you get to those 500's family, and repeat the never ending possibilities.

yeah SD is just fukn fine -

dumbass rw's in denial, not so much

oh man one job site got infected in an empty state, how will they survive/ lol

by definition living in the dakotas you are social distancing.

 

[DrLove]

“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,” the Washington Post reports.

South Dakota Resisted Shutdown, Now It’s a Hotspot

"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," the Washington Post reports."Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said disparagingly, reflect

politicalwire.com

That woman is as Trumpy as Florida's governor and even stupider. I think she's bucking for a plum job with the Dotard Administration. I've spent quite a bit of time in South Dakota. The people there aren't stupid in the slightest but their politics are

How One City Mayor Forced A Pork Giant To Close Its Virus-Stricken Plant

Smithfield Foods didn't want to stop slaughtering hogs at its Sioux Falls pork plant, even after hundreds of workers got sick with the coronavirus. Then the city's mayor forced the company's hand.

www.npr.org

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I guess we needed a test case..for those that believe the social distancing and stay at home orders were not needed:

South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots.

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.
Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi L. Noem said disparagingly, reflected a “herd mentality.” It was up to individuals — not government — to decide whether “to exercise their right to work, to worship and to play. Or to even stay at home.”
And besides, the first-term Republican told reporters at a briefing this month, “South Dakota is not New York City.”

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.
Increasingly exasperated local leaders, public health experts and front-line medical workers begged Noem to intervene Monday with a more aggressive state response.
“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.

But over the course of last week, the numbers surged as the virus ripped through the city’s Smithfield Foods production plant, a colossus that employs 3,700 people — many of them immigrants — and churns out 18 million servings of pork product per day.
On Monday alone, 57 more workers were confirmed to have positive diagnoses, bringing the total well above 300 — and making it one of the country’s largest clusters. Other major clusters include Cook County Jail in Chicago and the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier.
The Smithfield cases amount to more than a third of the state’s overall total, which stood at 868 on Monday, including six deaths, in a state of nearly 900,000 people.
Over the weekend, Smithfield bowed to growing pressure and said it would shutter the facility indefinitely in a bid to contain the spread — though Smithfield leaders cautioned that the action could severely disrupt the nation’s food supplies. The factory, like other food production facilities, had earlier been deemed essential by the federal government.
The shutdown of the Sioux Falls plant, coupled with other closures, “is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply,” Kenneth Sullivan, Smithfield president and chief executive, said in a statement. “It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running.”

300 illegals got it a pork-processing plant, eh? Deport now!

I just heard an interview with this governor. Stay at home orders would not have helped because the group that is the majority of afflicted are immigrants living 30 to 50 per residence. The entirety of the 300 live in close proximity.

 

[esalla]

“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,” the Washington Post reports.

South Dakota Resisted Shutdown, Now It’s a Hotspot

"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," the Washington Post reports."Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said disparagingly, reflect

politicalwire.com

Wrong as the meat plant would not have been shut down as it is essential

The hot spot is cuomos ny

Alveda King loves Trump

 

[2aguy]

I guess we needed a test case..for those that believe the social distancing and stay at home orders were not needed:

South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots.

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.
Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi L. Noem said disparagingly, reflected a “herd mentality.” It was up to individuals — not government — to decide whether “to exercise their right to work, to worship and to play. Or to even stay at home.”
And besides, the first-term Republican told reporters at a briefing this month, “South Dakota is not New York City.”

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.
Increasingly exasperated local leaders, public health experts and front-line medical workers begged Noem to intervene Monday with a more aggressive state response.
“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.

But over the course of last week, the numbers surged as the virus ripped through the city’s Smithfield Foods production plant, a colossus that employs 3,700 people — many of them immigrants — and churns out 18 million servings of pork product per day.
On Monday alone, 57 more workers were confirmed to have positive diagnoses, bringing the total well above 300 — and making it one of the country’s largest clusters. Other major clusters include Cook County Jail in Chicago and the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier.
The Smithfield cases amount to more than a third of the state’s overall total, which stood at 868 on Monday, including six deaths, in a state of nearly 900,000 people.
Over the weekend, Smithfield bowed to growing pressure and said it would shutter the facility indefinitely in a bid to contain the spread — though Smithfield leaders cautioned that the action could severely disrupt the nation’s food supplies. The factory, like other food production facilities, had earlier been deemed essential by the federal government.
The shutdown of the Sioux Falls plant, coupled with other closures, “is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply,” Kenneth Sullivan, Smithfield president and chief executive, said in a statement. “It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running.”

300 illegals got it a pork-processing plant, eh? Deport now!

I just heard an interview with this governor. Stay at home orders would not have helped because the group that is the majority of afflicted are immigrants living 30 to 50 per residence. The entirety of the 300 live in close proximity.

Why on earth would you introduce truth, facts and reality into an argument with left wing, socialist, democrat party nut jobs?

Please....from this point forward you have two options when discussing issues....

1) Orange Man Baddddd.....

2) Orange Man Baddd, and he caused the Chinese Virus....

 

[Siete]

“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,” the Washington Post reports.

South Dakota Resisted Shutdown, Now It’s a Hotspot

"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," the Washington Post reports."Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said disparagingly, reflect

politicalwire.com

Wrong as the meat plant would not have been shut down as it is essential

The hot spot is cuomos ny

Alveda King loves Trump

essential is shut down NOW -

so it must have been non essential -

 

[DrLove]

So how's your solution working out in Michigan? New York?

My solution..is working fine..in the other 10,000+ places you neglect to mention--including Idaho, where I live. Our Republican Gov.--a man with sense and foresight--gave the appropriate orders. Other than the Sun Valley area in Blaine county--which was infected early by affluent out-of-staters fleeing their states--we are seeing cases and deaths below projections.
I also note that California..the State ya love to hate..is also dealing effectively.

My point? Using political logic to attempt to defeat a epidemic is a fools game..and this Gov. is a fool.

I was only in Boise for a few months under Brad Little, so will defer to your judgement as to his sense and foresight. He did strike me as having more of those attributes than Dirk the Jerk or Cowboy Butch - the tight jeans contest winner who married into the Simplot family. My Ada Country has 529 current cases at present which I wouldn't consider a tiny amount, but yeah their curve is looking pretty good and only 9 fatalities. And Boise's pretty awesome new female mayor Lauren McLean shut down very early which was real smart. I'm on the Oregon Coast now and Oregon has handled things quite nicely also.

 

[eagle7-31]

“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,” the Washington Post reports.

South Dakota Resisted Shutdown, Now It’s a Hotspot

"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," the Washington Post reports."Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said disparagingly, reflect

politicalwire.com

Another Dishonest Smear By the Washington Post [with comment by Paul]

Yesterday's Washington Post carried an attack on South Dakota and its governor, Kristi Noem, under the headline South Dakota's Governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation's largest coronavirus hot spots. The Post's article is popular on Twitter, as liberal 'blue...

www.powerlineblog.com

Never read book by its cover, in particular the Post or NY Times.

 

[Siete]

“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,” the Washington Post reports.

South Dakota Resisted Shutdown, Now It’s a Hotspot

"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," the Washington Post reports."Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said disparagingly, reflect

politicalwire.com

That woman is as Trumpy as Florida's governor and even stupider. I think she's bucking for a plum job with the Dotard Administration. I've spent quite a bit of time in South Dakota. The people there aren't stupid in the slightest but their politics are

How One City Mayor Forced A Pork Giant To Close Its Virus-Stricken Plant

Smithfield Foods didn't want to stop slaughtering hogs at its Sioux Falls pork plant, even after hundreds of workers got sick with the coronavirus. Then the city's mayor forced the company's hand.

www.npr.org

caught a glimpse of her on Fox - glad I live about as far south from her as it gets

 

[DrLove]

now theres OVER 500 from the company reported as positive for the virus -

unprotected -

their friends outside the job
all of their friends
and their friends
any human all of those people had contact with
the truck driver that had breakfast at the diner then got in his rig and headed south through 4 states
that list is endless ^^^^^^^^^^

then you get to those 500's family, and repeat the never ending possibilities.

yeah SD is just fukn fine -

dumbass rw's in denial, not so much

That lady is an idiot.
Refuses to shut down restaurants and movie theaters ...
Even VERY large gatherings. Sucking up to Dumpster Don for certain.

 

[DrLove]

An Inquiry into the Governor's line of reasoning, seems reasonable.

Orange Man likes what I'm doing here. That's the beginning and the end to her line of reasoning.

 

[DrLove]

“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,” the Washington Post reports.

South Dakota Resisted Shutdown, Now It’s a Hotspot

"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," the Washington Post reports."Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said disparagingly, reflect

politicalwire.com

Do you really imagine a few deaths is a problem? How many times do you think we can shut down the economy to prevent a few hundred deaths?

It's teh flu

Sweden is still wide open, they're fine

Are they?

Sweden: 22 Scientists Say Coronavirus Strategy Has Failed As Deaths Top 1,000

Sweden's relatively relaxed approach to controlling the spread of the virus has come under fire from 22 researchers who have publicly criticized the strategy.

www.forbes.com

Sweden's relatively relaxed approach to controlling the spread of the coronavirus has come under fire in international media and from many locals in the capital Stockholm, where more than half the country's deaths have been recorded. Now, 22 researchers have publicly criticized the strategy and called on politicians to make changes.

Harsh criticism from research scientists

In an opinion piece published today in Dagens Nyheter, the group of researchers from a range of top Swedish universities and research institutes make harsh criticism of the Swedish Public Health Agency and their present coronavirus strategy. They say that elected politicians must now intervene with "swift and radical measures."

The researchers say the agency has claimed on four different occasions that the spread of infection has levelled out, despite evidence to the contrary. They point out the slowdown in infections and deaths in Finland, which has implemented much more restrictive measures.

Major public events such as the start of the Swedish soccer season are postponed and the physical buildings of universities are closed, but otherwise everyday life continues. Schools remain open.

Sweden deaths much higher than neighboring nations
The criticism comes as the Swedish death total hits new heights. 1,033 people have now died from COVID-19 in Sweden, according to the Swedish Public Health Agency. That's an increase of 114 in the past 24 hours. The daily update also confirms that 11,445 people have tested positive in Sweden with 915 receiving or having received intensive care treatment.
MORE FROM FORBESWhy Sweden's Coronavirus Approach Is So Different From OthersBy David Nikel
The researchers highlight Finland, which has recorded ten times fewer deaths than Sweden on a per-person basis. Sweden's deaths as a percentage of population is also much higher than Denmark and Norway, which have also introduced strict measures.

The group highlighted the last three days before the Easter vacation began. In the period April 7-9: "10.2 people per million inhabitants died of COVID-19 each day in Sweden. In Italy, the figure was 9.7. In Denmark it was 2.9, in Norway 2.0 and in Finland 0.9," stated the letter.
Not taking it seriously enough
While Swedish authorities have stopped short of implementing many of the emergency measures seen in neighbouring countries, they do recommend that people stay at home and avoid unnecessary travel.

According to Aftonbladet, Jan Lötvall, a professor at the University of Gothenburg, said that Swedish people have not understood the seriousness of the situation because they have received unclear messaging from health authorities and elected officials.

The researchers now want rapid change. They suggest that schools and restaurants should be closed as in Finland. In addition, healthcare professionals working with the elderly must use proper infection control equipment and a mass testing of health personnel must be carried out.

Yeah, I've about had it with this Sweden disinformation. They must be hearing it on Fox or Sinclair.

 

[whitehall]

A hotspot? N.D. has had about 6 deaths so far. The most severe restrictions (some would say abuses) were in Michigan and they had about 2,000 deaths. Are we going to see lefties patting each other on the backs playing the gotcha game now? Pretty soon we will see more deaths due to unemployment and the collapse of the economy if we don't put people back to work. Is that what the left wants?