The Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce is countermessaging Mayor Travis Schaunaman’s business-über-alles assurances that we can reopen the economy. They’ve canceled mixers planned for May and June and put off the next gathering until August:
The Business After Hours mixer that was slated for Thursday has been rescheduled, according to a news release from the Aberdeen Area Chamber of Commerce.
It will now take place Aug. 13 at Revo, 5325 E. U.S. Highway 12.
In related developments, the June 11 mixer has been canceled, according to a the release [“Business After Hours Mixer Canceled in Aberdeen,” Aberdeen American News, 2020.05.15].
I’m hearing from community members that employees at local grocers are testing positive for coronavirus… but unlike in April, when we heard right away from the state when employees at Sioux Falls Walmarts had tested positive for covid-19, we seem not to be getting updates now on specific businesses where employees and shoppers might want to take some extra precautions.
Yeah, refusing to disclose where positives are is what China did in Wuhan. China learned the lesson hard. They created a system to let people know exactly where positives were and had been, so people would be able to make their own judgement about how much risk they wanted to take on. You can’t run a coronavirus response based on personal responsibility, as Noem has been touting, by refusing to provide the maximum amount of information for people to use. You are defeating your own strategy. All you are going to get by withholding this information is a Wuhan-sized outbreak.
People, if given the correct information by an honest government, generally can make good decisions. When you have liars at the head of government, who pump out misinformation on a daily basis, you get a dumbed-down citizenry who make bad decisions, including going out to bars in a pandemic and voting for drek like Noem and Trump.
Butte County more than held up the sales tax collections, up 78%. One would not know there was a nationwide pandemic. Rarely a face mask around as they taunt the trump-virus.
https://www.bhpioneer.com/covid-19/belle-fourche-april-sales-tax-revenue-up-78-3/article_6898f82c-96d9-11ea-8f8c-6f96127ab80c.html
Well as Medical Moron said, the problem is the tests. The more you test people the more positives you get. But if you don’t test numbers go down. I’m sure the same holds true for keeping numbers secret.
That’s how you defeat a highly contagious virus in trumplandia.
DYING FOR THE DOW, or how I spent 2020. This will be our new theme, courtesy of the republican governance, here in South Dakota and across red state land. How will it feel to know that over 200,000 of us US citizens died on the sacrificial alter of Wall Street. What a bailout. Booyah!
Thursday’s report on Brown County’s numbers gives this explanation of the state’s criteria for announcing cases at specific businesses:
So if one of the grocery store kids had a mask hanging around his neck, whether he was wearing it correctly over mouth and nose or not, the state may keep that business’s outbreak quiet. Great.
Deaths:
88,548
Wingnuts are betting thousands of lives that drumpf is smarter and knows more than a pandemic virus. But, it won’t be drumpf’s fault when he fails like usual.
From the Aberdeen American News article: “The state health department’s investigations of cases involve whether the case poses a risk to the general public because of the person’s job, Clayton said.”
Their whole plan depends on people taking personal responsibility, so they don’t have to make decisions about closing anything. THEY want YOU to take personal responsibility for the risks you take, but THEY decide what is a risk to YOU in terms of not giving YOU the full amount of information for YOU to decide what risk is posed to YOU. I mean, really. They are such double talkers.
Indeed: I’d like to be able to exercise my personal responsibility based on solid, up-to-date information. I’d like to know where it’s risky to go, and whether I’ve already been exposed to a particularly risky situation. Absent that information from the state, I have to stay home entirely, thus delaying Noem’s and Trump’s prayed-for economic recovery.
Cross some of Wisconsin off your list, Master…. https://www.newsweek.com/wisconsin-business-owner-bans-wearing-masks-after-court-overturns-stay-home-order-1504589
Claims it makes it easier to identify possibly soon to die of covid robbers, I guess.
Apparently Annie’s Campground is a hotbed of dangerous robberies, hence the mask ban.
I don’t think I care to go there. I’ll end up in a robbery or surrounded by COVID-19 loving MAGAts. Neither is very attractive to me.
My opinion of businesses has changed considerable over the last 2 months. Places like Walmart and Menards we not places I cared to go. Now these are the places I am spending money at. These 2 businesses (and Target I believe as well) require their employees to wear masks. That tells me these businesses care about their employees and customers. Walmart has stepped up its grocery pickup service and continues to do it for free, unlike other places that have started charging for this service.
Then there are places that I used to favor that do not have a single employee wearing a mask. That tells me these businesses do not care about their workers or their customers. Well if they do not care, I also do not care in your survive and will not be in your business again.
Then there are the places that were shut down. If you opened back up, I will not be there and will be eating at places that cared about their employees and customers and are staying closed! These businesses that care about people will be seeing a big bang when it is safe to open.
Scott, people can make a difference by emailing the establishment. Many will respond to customer complaints by doing the right thing. I emailed a local grocer early on and told them I walked in intending to buy around $100 in groceries but I turned around and drove over to their competitors when I saw the employees were not wearing masks. Other people also complained, and they ended up making a lot of changes to protect everyone. Those that don’t need to face customer loss. That’s exactly what is being done in Wisconsin. It’s not so much a boycott as a public shaming. People are sharing info online about which businesses are doing a good job, which are not protecting workers and customers. Those business that aren’t responsible are going to be losing customers.