Global Cooperation Helps Saba Get Face Masks for South Dakotans in Need
Published 2020-04-16 by
Cory Allen Heidelberger
Forget throwing candy at parades—this year, smart candidates, not to mention decent neighbors, will distribute coronavirus protective gear. See District 9, where Representative Michael Saba is delivering face masks to his constituents:
Rep. Michael Saba, fostering international relations and public health
Hearing of the rise in COVID-19 cases in South Dakota, an international business contact of South Dakota Representative Michael Saba (Dist. 9) sent a supply of face masks so Saba could distribute them to people who badly need them in District 9. Rep. Saba has distributed several hundred of the facemask donation around the District 9 region of rural Minnehaha County and the towns of Sioux Falls, Hartford, Humboldt and Crooks as requested, to people who particularly need them.
“This generous donation was unexpected and greatly appreciated at a time of personal protective equipment shortage” said Saba, “I still have facemasks available to distribute to organizations who are struggling to protect their volunteers.”
The donation to Representative Michael Saba came as a response to the assistance he has shown in bringing international trade delegations and various international trade opportunities for South Dakota.
“We are all in this fight for our health and well-being” Saba added, “the international trade group donating the 1000 hospital quality face masks believe in the people of South Dakota. We are one big world.”
Saba has so far distributed them into Sioux Falls to the Urban Indian Center and to the immigrants primarily who worked for Smithfield who are without face masks. He has also donated them to meals on wheels groups that are getting food to elderly and disabled people and will continue to donate them and to put together packages of face masks for other people in need as the supply remains. Rep. Saba also distributed them to various churches who do community outreach in our District 9 region.
More information can be obtained on how to reserve some of the remaining free facemasks from Representative Saba, contact him at his office phone number 605-526-5000 or his email Michael.Saba@sdlegislature.gov [Rep. Michael Saba, press release, 2020.04.15].
A donation from an international business contact? Hmmm… diversify your economy, diversify your partners, diversify the folks you may be able to rely on for aid in a crisis.
Well, we have a lot of excess hogs now. Maybe Noem will finally take an interest in Saba’s import/export office idea in the Governor’s wing of the State Capitol.
jerry
Very good link John, for trumpian republicans, when she put the decimal point in, they thought it was the end of the conversation and drifted off.
Here’s another group of states joining together to do what Liar-in-Chief is failing so completely at.
“Gov. Tim Walz [D-Minnesota] issued a joint statement on Thursday along with governors from Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky on the new partnership, which mimics approaches announced by states in the Northeast and along the Pacific Coast.
” ‘Our number one priority when analyzing when best to reopen our economy is the health and safety of our citizens,’ the governors said in their statement. ‘We will make decisions based on facts, science, and recommendations from experts in health care, business, labor, and education.’
“The governors said they would be making decisions based on their ability to trace and track the spread of the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the capacities of their states’ health care systems. They also would be assessing the ability of employers to maintain social distancing practices once workers return.”
is.gd/Gu5kL8 Strib paywall
Owen
Where can you get masks?
Debbo
Merkel must be one of the smartest people on the planet. How clearly, how simply, how plainly she explained that. Even MAGAts could understand, though they might choose not to, or scream Lies.
In addition to Rep Saba; here is another example of what right looks like.
https://twitter.com/benjalvarez1/status/1250563198081740800?s=21
Well, we have a lot of excess hogs now. Maybe Noem will finally take an interest in Saba’s import/export office idea in the Governor’s wing of the State Capitol.
Very good link John, for trumpian republicans, when she put the decimal point in, they thought it was the end of the conversation and drifted off.
Saba doing more than the queen.
Here’s another group of states joining together to do what Liar-in-Chief is failing so completely at.
“Gov. Tim Walz [D-Minnesota] issued a joint statement on Thursday along with governors from Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky on the new partnership, which mimics approaches announced by states in the Northeast and along the Pacific Coast.
” ‘Our number one priority when analyzing when best to reopen our economy is the health and safety of our citizens,’ the governors said in their statement. ‘We will make decisions based on facts, science, and recommendations from experts in health care, business, labor, and education.’
“The governors said they would be making decisions based on their ability to trace and track the spread of the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the capacities of their states’ health care systems. They also would be assessing the ability of employers to maintain social distancing practices once workers return.”
is.gd/Gu5kL8 Strib paywall
Where can you get masks?
Merkel must be one of the smartest people on the planet. How clearly, how simply, how plainly she explained that. Even MAGAts could understand, though they might choose not to, or scream Lies.
Still, so well done. Thanks John.