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14 Nov, 9 tweets, 3 min read
South Dakota, population 885k, reported 55 COVID deaths today. Current active cases: 18,747.

argusleader.com/story/news/202…
In Utah:

40% of American still planning to attend Thanksgiving with 10+ people; 30% not planning to mask or ask others to mask:

upi.com/Health_News/20…
17 COVID deaths and 9,490 active cases reported in Wyoming, where the population is 578k:

"It’s not that people in Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa and elsewhere don’t realize their states are leading the nation in new cases per capita. It’s that many of them aren’t especially concerned."

apnews.com/article/iowa-s…
“We have an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old, and we certainly believe this is an important time of life to maybe shine a little bit. We’re trying to create as much normalcy as we can. We try not to live in fear. We’ve traveled. We go out to dinner.”

apnews.com/article/iowa-s…
Amidst:

Just a friendly reminder that some people are indeed making dumb decisions and some people are forced to take risky actions because there's no other way to provide for their families; there's a serious difference and the failure is the federal government's
If you're reading this on this website you're probably already convinced that this is a bad idea, but you can still have meaningful conversations with family members to discourage this. Try using this tool:

covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu

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14 Nov
I need some toasty gloves. Not ski gloves, not running gloves, not those $1 gloves from Target. Not driving gloves or leather or suede. But probably involve wool outside and fleece inside? And I can order them online? If you have found these beauties, let me know
Another problem is that I have the hands of someone who is 4'10" and need XS capacity, please tell me someone else also has this need
I am 5'5" I just have my Grandmother's very petite hands!
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13 Nov
there is a whole lot of weird, niche, lovely, wonky writing that goes on all over Substack that won't show up in the top 20 lists but provides an outlet & (in many cases) $$ to really excellent writers whose work might not have a place in mainstream pubs
Some of my favorites:

@chrislatray's An Irritable Métis: chrislatray.substack.com

@_megconley's Stay at Home Meg: megconley.substack.com
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@garrettbucks's The White Pages:
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12 Nov
Via this new, peer-reviewed COVID risk assessor: if you attend a family Thanksgiving in Missoula, MT with just 10 people, you have a 34% chance of encountering someone with COVID

covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu Image
A bar with 50 people in Boise? 86% chance of encountering someone with COVID: Image
Thanksgiving with ten people in Dubuque, Iowa: 63% chance of encountering someone with COVID Image
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11 Nov
"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."

I talked to @JessicaCalarco about her research on women & pandemic parenting/relationships — and the idea of sociology as "un-gaslighting"

annehelen.substack.com/p/other-countr…
"In the U.S., most of us aren’t taught to use our sociological imaginations. We’re not taught to think about social problems as structural problems."

annehelen.substack.com/p/other-countr…
"We’re not taught to see the forces that operate beyond our control – forces like capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy....Instead, we — esp. women & people from other systematically marginalized groups — are taught to self-help-book our way out of structural problems."
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11 Nov
Update from Southern Idaho
This was in the NYT Live COVID Report yesterday: Across the upper Mountain West — Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming —  the pressing problem is staffing: "the going rate for an I.C.U. nurse in the region has doubled to $120 an hour, more than small hospitals can afford"
[one problem with the NYT Live Update blogs — for COVID, for Politics, whatever — is that there is no record of previous iterations of the story]
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10 Nov
This piece is well-intentioned but I think the headline is misleading & bad. Everyone has different understandings of "safe"; should be "Experts say no need to cancel Thanksgiving, so long as you actually f-ing quarantine"

apnews.com/article/thanks…
I've had people tell me "they're being really really safe" and then tell me they just got back from a trip to Puerto Vallarta
"I'm being really really safe" and then that night I see an Instagram of them eating indoors with masks off
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