How could ND & SD have screwed this up SO BAD?
I mean they have very few urban areas, no international airports, little public transit and by definition most of the residents spend most of their lives "social distanced". And yet there case rates have exceeded urban states and their death rate is catching up quickly.
Apparently sticking one's head in the sand does not protect one from catching a virus.
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"On July 16, towns in North Dakota were holding their annual summer festivals. People cheered the rodeos and danced together, maskless, in the streets.
Erin Ourada, the administrator for Custer Health, a public health department just west of Bismarck, watched it all with foreboding.
“I don’t think the reality had hit the majority of North Dakota,” Ms. Ourada said. It was hard to even think back to that summer period, she said this week, when “everyone was still just kind of living their lives and getting ready for the next street dance they were going to hit up.”
People who worked in public health were nervous in particular about what would follow the gatherings of Fourth of July weekend.
Daily case numbers began ticking up two weeks later, in late July. In North Dakota this week, hospitals are striving to find available beds. The state now has the worst rate of infection in the country, relative to its population, and it is ending formal contact tracing except in health care settings, schools and colleges. Members of the National Guard are calling people to tell them they have tested positive.
This is what she saw coming when the case numbers began steadily growing at the end of July, said Ms. Ourada, “and we’ve been living in that ever since.”
People in rural areas think the virus is a city thing.
--Hiram
I can somewhat understand since Yellow Medicine County has only had 5 deaths... Which does not seem so bad for such a big area... Until you learn it only has a population of 9800...
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