Or Mask Mandates seem to be working in SD. Another silly FB Friend questioned the effectiveness and risks of mask wearing again... And I am curious what is happening in SD... So I went looking for some causality.
First, I got the term "Fox Hole Religion" from an article I linked to previously. The idea is that it is really easy to deny the risks of a situation until people in your Fox Hole get shot. This idea works wonderful for Trump country. So many deniers until their cousin is in the ICU and losing lung capacity.
In SD, several things were happening in Oct and Nov.
- SD and ND were making the national news as being the worst COVID states in the country.
- SD and ND quadrupled the number of dead per 10,000 residents.
- Many of the cities where people shopped, socialized, etc implement mask mandates.
- The number of COVID cases peaked
This leaves me wondering if people finally got scared and started taking it seriously? Or did the masks do what they do... Slow the spread of COVID It does not really matter as long as fewer people are getting sick and dying.
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