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Two Rural States With GOP Governors And Very Different COVID-19 Results
NPR ^ | November 20, 2020 | Seth Tupper

Posted on 11/23/2020 6:54:37 PM PST by Jessarah

One of the things happening in South Dakota is an infection rate that's among the worst in the nation, at about 8,000 cases per 100,000 people.

In Vermont, another small, rural state with a Republican governor, Gov. Phil Scott has embraced safety measures, and the differences are pretty stark. Like South Dakota, Vermont has fewer than 1 million residents, most of whom don't live in cities. It has about 500 cases per 100,000 people. That's the lowest rate in the nation.

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TOPICS: South Dakota; Vermont; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: covid; masks; shutdowns
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I guess we're suppose to think badly of Gov Noem now. After all, she is a Trump supporter.
1 posted on 11/23/2020 6:54:37 PM PST by Jessarah
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To: Jessarah
Two Rural States With GOP Governors And Very Different COVID-19 Results

The difference being that one believes in the Constitution and Americans can make their own choices. The other believes he is the ultimate athority and you must obey him.
2 posted on 11/23/2020 6:59:17 PM PST by JoSixChip (Its not about color, its about character.)
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To: Jessarah
Cases mean nothing.
How many people are actually getting 'sick' from upper respiratory afflictions?
How many deaths strictly due to CoVid (and not dead with CoVid viruses found in their bodies)?
3 posted on 11/23/2020 7:01:55 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Drew68; Army Air Corps; BenLurkin; MeganC

South Dakota it is then.


4 posted on 11/23/2020 7:04:40 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: El Cid

But cases are skyrocketing. Everyone knows one case equals at least 15 deaths.

Wear your mask. It’ll make the booboo go away.


5 posted on 11/23/2020 7:07:59 PM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: Jessarah

demographics tell the true story:

Vermont:

Five percent of Vermont residents are immigrants, while 6 percent of residents are native-born U.S. citizens with at least one immigrant parent...
...The top countries of origin for immigrants were Canada (20 percent of immigrants), Nepal (7 percent), Jamaica (6 percent), the Philippines (6 percent), and Bosnia and Herzegovina (5 percent).

South Dakota:

In 2018, 35,175 immigrants (foreign-born individuals) comprised 4 percent of the population...(4 percent of the state’s population) were native-born Americans who had at least one immigrant parent.
The top countries of origin for immigrants were Guatemala (8 percent of immigrants), the Philippines (7 percent), Mexico (7 percent), Sudan (6 percent), and Ethiopia (5 percent).

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/immigrants-in-south-dakota
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/immigrants-in-vermont


6 posted on 11/23/2020 7:10:45 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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The South Dakota newspapers/ tv news organizations are ripping Noem with what I think are unfounded claims about the hospitals filling up and covid cases exploding.

It’s all like a very bad dream.

Our whole nation is going to $hit and these people are making it worse all for power


7 posted on 11/23/2020 7:13:51 PM PST by South Dakota (This is what I do. I drink and I know things)
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To: blueplum

True, non-WASP immigration has been the ruin of this great country, starting from the socialist Eurotrash from the s***les of Europe to the more recent influx from all over.

This country was the greatest when true WASP culture was preserved and perpetuated.


8 posted on 11/23/2020 7:15:31 PM PST by Galatians328 (God Bless PDJT.. Trump 2024)
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To: Jessarah

They certainly are worried about Kristi Noem...


9 posted on 11/23/2020 7:16:03 PM PST by NittanyLion
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To: South Dakota

SD has a large Native American population, who are very susceptible to the China Crud


10 posted on 11/23/2020 7:22:17 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: NittanyLion

So the covid tests have more false positives in SD.


11 posted on 11/23/2020 7:22:45 PM PST by davidb56
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To: Jessarah

The “two weeks to flatten the curve” concept always implied that the curve would he filled out eventually with positive cases and yes, deaths, when the healthcare system was able to handle the extra cases. Vermont is just filling that curve in more slowly than South Dakota.


12 posted on 11/23/2020 7:24:35 PM PST by jz638
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To: KC_Lion

Is that where you are moving to?


13 posted on 11/23/2020 7:41:02 PM PST by madison10 (Give Thanks to the Lord, for He is good.)
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To: El Cid
"How many deaths strictly due to CoVid (and not dead with CoVid viruses found in their bodies)?"

I don't know, but Covid deaths-per-million are currently:

South Dakota: 926
Vermont: 101

Now, is South Dakota is arbitrarily categorizing non-Covid deaths as Covid deaths at a rate 9 times greater than Vermont? I doubt it.
14 posted on 11/23/2020 7:42:30 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Jessarah

The media doesn’t like the idea of a future Presidential candidate being a Republican woman. DEFUND NPR now!!


15 posted on 11/23/2020 7:43:43 PM PST by willk (A bias news media is not a free press.)
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To: madison10
Unfortunately no.

For now.

16 posted on 11/23/2020 7:48:07 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: madison10
But it would be my relocation location of choice in this COVID mad world.

(opps on the separate comments)

17 posted on 11/23/2020 7:49:55 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: Jessarah

So?

Checks demographics.


18 posted on 11/23/2020 7:54:45 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Jessarah

Sure, it’s a hit piece on Gov Noem. The Borg Collective views her as a threat, so it sends all the best drones from NPR to attack.


19 posted on 11/23/2020 7:55:24 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: jz638

It’s a little early to say for sure, but, it would appear South Dakota’s case numbers are on the way back down. Vermont’s are low, but steeply on the way up. I’m not saying Vermont will do an Illinois, but, I am reminded of that line from Jurassic Park: “Life* will find a way.”

*Or, “sort of life”, in this case.

VT could end up begging for Trump’s vaccine.

(Yeah, I know it’s a stretch to call it “Trump’s Vaccine”, but, I believe it will be effective in preventing many deaths, and we should claim it vigorously for DJT now, so Biden can’t, later.)


20 posted on 11/23/2020 7:57:07 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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