The two biggest stories of 2020 in South Dakota and across our nation were the pandemics of coronavirus and Trumpism. Both pandemics threaten the survival…
Tag: public health
In a commentary this morning on MSNBC, Tom Brokaw says that South Dakota Governor Peter Norbeck saved many lives during the influenza epidemic of 1918…
Sometimes a tiny minority of complainers get all the press. Don’t sweat the news about radical cranks screaming at shopkeepers for asking that they wear…
In his continuing effort to write his own Onion articles, Donald Trump trod dopily around an Arizona mask factory without wearing a mask yesterday while…
SDGOP tool Pat Powers has studiously avoided discussing the greatest public health crisis and concomitant economic recession of our time, preferring as usual to merely…
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention came to Sioux Falls last week and toured the shuttered Smithfield Foods slaughterhouse, now the third-worst coronavirus hotspot…
As doubts mount over hydroxychloroquine, driving Fox News to an embarrassing gaslighting-by-silence over their once-touted wonder drug, South Dakota presses forward with Governor Kristi Noem’s…
Wave your Trump flags at home, idiots. Conservative estimates from federal health officials say that prematurely ending our sensible social distancing will cause 300,000 additional…
Governor Kristi Noem just used the coronavirus as an excuse to suspend environmental protections around factory hog farms. In Executive Order 2020-17, her fourteenth executive…
But South Dakota’s youth aren’t uniquely self-absorbed. Some 70-something knucklehead in Oacoma tested positive for coronavirus and went around Oacoma and Chamberlain putting his neighbors…