For starters you can test the crap out of folks in LTCFs and those that work in LTCF. Rapid testing. Frequent testing. Not sending the sick back into LTCF would have been a better plan too.
| Active Cases | Population | Cases/million | |
| MN | 11,071.00 | 5.6396320 | 1,963.07 |
| WI | 29,514.00 | 5.8224340 | 5,069.01 |
| ND | 4,546.00 | 0.7620620 | 5,965.39 |
| SD | 6,062.00 | 0.8846590 | 6,852.36 |
| IA | 22,092.00 | 3.1550700 | 7,002.06 |
A great start!
Do you think States that didn’t do lockdowns expected lower case counts by not doing them? Every time someone posts about cases going up in areas, schools, etc. that “opened” they are broadcasting their very poor understanding of the situation.
All around the world people are starving to death by the hundreds of thousands because of lock downs in countries like ours. I actually think we are responsible for that.
Yeah, but it’s so much easier to just shut it down and claim you have a plan. Not to mention putting the fear of Covid in them.
Nothing matters until it effects you personally.
Good question, and I don't know the answer. The CDC has been only partially useful during the whole pandemic. They screwed up the initial tests, which sent us on a trajectory toward many more deaths than we would have had if they had done it right. And lots of mixed signaling.
Grandma should UPS the cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie this year, and join via remote video.
Oh hell, I just noticed that not only are you intentionally using a worthless stat like cases you are using “active cases” - something that is cherry picked and that is defined differently from state to state. More dishonest crap from Howie.
The government's role in public health has been a fixture in American life as long as any of us has been alive. It's only recently that the hyper-conservatism of the day has turned it into some kind of left/right wedge issue.
If only he had felt obligated to hang onto the pandemic response plan.
What would you like to see done from the response plan that isn't being done? What part should the states play?
The US is the world's leading food exporter by a factor of 2 over the next country in line. When there is a crisis, the rich get fed, the middle class gets fed and the poorest of the poor suffer due to lack of food to donate in the system. The poor have suffered world wide from the lock downs. If the US doesn't lock down and restrict activities, many fewer starve. You can turn your head away from it but it doesn't change the truth of it. The lockdowns have damaged our country but also the poor people around the world. They are counter productive and selfish.
In your mind....because the media has not told you that.
What I have learned is red States should have done more and there was nothing that blue States could have done.
