Governor Kristi Noem’s coronavirus reopening plan says that local areas should not carry out reopening plans until they have a 14-day trend of decreasing coronavirus cases. One would assume that means that if a community initiates a reopening plan and then sees cases spike, it should reimpose some restrictions on unhealthy behavior.
On Wednesday, the Aberdeen City Commission enacted a reopening ordinance for David Novstrup’s delayed bumper-car palace and other suffering businesses. On that day, Brown County’s 14-day trend line for daily new coronavirus cases pointed downward:
Since Wednesday, Brown County’s confirmed covid-19 cases have risen from 32 to 59. Our trend line still points up, even more steeply:
According to Governor Noem’s guidelines, Aberdeen should throttle its reopening ordinance and resume stricter measures to bend that infection curve back down.
Oh, Cory, don’t you know? We have to open ASAP so that we’ll be all ready for the Great Fourth of July rally and patriotic optic at Mount Rushmore. Not to mention Sturgis in August! And besides, like all of our Governor’s statements, that was a suggestion (note the use of “should” not “must”), not a command. Freedom!
Since Aberdeen wasn’t required to put in any restrictions from the Executive Suggester, they don’t have to follow any criteria for Back To Normal.
Additionally, don’t the criteria read that you need a 14 day period of decline, not the last 14 days? The suggestions do state there should be no clusters that pose a risk to the public, which is defined as 10 or more cases that aren’t associated with a single location. The state has 38 active cases listed currently and there are reports that 41 workers at DemKota beef were diagnosed. Which means that Aberdeen can likely justify whatever they want to do.
3,000 deaths a day by June 1,2020. Some uptick. Wow, that’s like 9/11 each day under the trump regime. I guess though, as NOem didn’t say what Back to Normal really is, maybe this is the Back to Normal. Wonder when we’re gonna be getting those test kits for everyone? Probably not important, but still, it would be kind of nice to know before you go visit someone who has problems…or even yourself.
The number of cases and deaths is rising fastest in red states. I guess that’s SD’s “noemal.”
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Treasury secretary Munchkin says that now is a great time to travel in the United States. These republicans are tone deaf to what death they’ve caused. Economically, the stock market is being fed daily doses of taxpayer money to keep it breathing. NOem got 1.25 Billion for masks tests and protective equipment and yet, no testing, What gives?
Still no testing. Amazing but not surprising. No testing. Send the grandkids to the amusement park like all is well. Hey, if the first charge don’t get you, the big one coming in the fall will! So we got that to look forward to.
Here is what Munchkin failed to tell Jerry, today…..
KEY POINTS
The Treasury Department announced Monday it is borrowing about $3 trillion this quarter.
The money is being used in large part to subsidize economic rescue efforts in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Total U.S. government debt now is near $25 trillion, with the current fiscal year’s deficit running at $744 billion
All those trillions go into shoring up a failed Wall Street model that hemorrhages blood each minute. Artificial wealth on company’s that even Musk told the truth about. He said that Tesla was not worth the stock price. You might hate the guy for being such a snowflake, but in this case, he is spot on. BTW, the market then adjusted and took off a few billion. Game set match.