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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Coronavirus infections in the Dakotas are growing faster than anywhere else in the nation, fueling impassioned debates over masks and personal freedom after months in which the two states avoided the worst of the pandemic.
The argument over masks raged this week in Brookings, South Dakota, as the city council considered requiring face coverings in businesses. The city was forced to move its meeting to a local arena to accommodate intense interest, with many citizens speaking against it, before the mask requirement ultimately passed.
Amid the brute force of the pandemic, health experts warn that the infections must be contained before care systems are overwhelmed. North Dakota and South Dakota lead the country in new cases per capita over the last two weeks, ranking first and second respectively, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.
South Dakota has also posted some of the countrys highest positivity rates for COVID-19 tests in the last week over 17 percent an indication that there are more infections than tests are catching.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,694 posts)It just wants to live in as many warm bodies as it can get into.
The fools in the Dakotas will soon sicken and die, and take many innocent folks with them.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)They are also free to catch a lethal virus in their arrogance. What they fail to grasp is that wearing a mask protects others. Others. Other people. Other humans.
The abject stupidity and stubborn, mean selfishness of these Americans still astounds me, though, by now I should see its pretty damned obvious that a large, vocal portion of America is populated by assholes.
StClone
(11,686 posts)It went viral! S and N. it went viral and that ain't funny, cute or good...but it is catchy!
Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)For some reason the article won't come up for me but it's probably something with my computer.
I remember after Sturgis a whole lot of of positive COVID cases were reported (although the Governor said it wasn't true).
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)Not.