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18 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Busy week in South Dakota for city mask mandates. Several of the state's largest cities are approving/considering mask mandates, on the urging of the state medical association and Avera Heath (Notably not Sanford Health). The state of play:
1. Brookings has a mask mandate, The city council passed a mask mandate over two months ago and extended it another 60 days in late October. A recent report from Brookings:
dakotanewsnow.com/video/2020/11/…
2. Huron approved a mask mandate on a unanimous city commission vote on Monday. 30 days. No penalty. plainsman.com/article/time-t…
3. Mitchell: Mayor Bob Everson signed an executive order Tuesday implementing a citywide mask mandate. 30 days. Has a penalty. (Council will consider ordinance to essentially ratify on Nov. 23)
mitchellrepublic.com/news/governmen…
4. Sioux Falls: City Council/Mayor TenHaken reversed course after a tie-break no vote last week and approved a mask mandate, now with no penalty. 60 days. mitchellrepublic.com/newsmd/coronav…
5. Rapid City: City council to consider a mask mandate tomorrow night (Thursday). Terms: Until Jan. 1, includes penalties.
rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/rap…

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17 Nov
So KELO decided to bite on Gov. Noem's staff's objection to a USA Today story about the COVID situation in South Dakota. Their call. In my view, it wasn't worth the time. I'll tell you why in just a few tweets (because that's about all that objection is worth)
1. Noem adviser Maggie Seidel, who wrote the "more nonsense" email blast to media about the Joel Shannon article (linked below) isn't even playing with the same set of facts.
usatoday.com/story/news/hea…
2. Shannon uses mortality rate data (via NYT) from the past week, because the point is to show how things are right now (bad by any measure). Seidel says he's wrong by ... citing mortality data from the beginning of the pandemic, stripping it of any useful recent context.
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18 Sep
My dispatch from the side of U.S. Highway 14, where South Dakota's attorney general struck and killed a man with his car last week. inforum.com/news/governmen…
Here are more photos from the Ravnsborg-Boever crash scene. Let's walk through it, in the direction of travel. These images are as I shot them yesterday. Here's the presumed start of the scene. Notice the green spray paint line on the road, to the left of the speed limit sign.
Off almost immediately to the right (north) is a SD DOT shop. This is where a vehicle that looked like Ravnsborg's wrecked 2011 Ford Taurus was towed on Tuesday.
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13 Sep
So SD Gov. Kristi Noem, with 90 minutes notice, announced a press conference in Sioux Falls city hall, at 5:15 pm on a Sunday. No mention of topic. To be streamed here: Facebook.com/govnoem
Stand by.
Also, just FYI: This is previously unscheduled press conference, unusual in that there's no topic listed and last-second notification, and a really odd day/time for max media exposure (other than SF is the state's media center). Just really odd.
BREAKING: SD Atty Gen. Jason Ravnsborg involved in a traffic collision in Hyde County, 10:30 pm yesterday on Hwy 14, just west of Highmore. 1 fatality from crash. They wouldn't tell us any other details (condition of anyone, who else involved, how many people/vehicles involved).
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10 Sep
BREAKING: SD Gov. Kristi Noem has refused to release White House recommendations re: her state's COVID-19 situation. ABC News obtained them. Here's what they say. inforum.com/newsmd/coronav…
thanks to @huarachejane for the heads up on the ABC reporting!
@huarachejane To read any and all of the WH coronavirus task force's state-by-state summaries and recommendations dated Sept. 6, here's the full doc: drive.google.com/file/d/1WN6FSX…
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1 Sep
STURGIS: 263 COVID-19 cases in 12 states now linked to the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota, by my latest count this AM. Tally:
SD: 105
Minn: 49
ND: 30
Colo: 25
Wyo: 13
Mich: 11
NH: 8
Neb: 7
Mont: 7
Wash: 3
NJ: 3
Wisc: 2
Sources below:
South Dakota - 105 cases linked to Sturgis: inforum.com/newsmd/coronav…
Minnesota - 49 cases linked to Sturgis:
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18 Aug
Shocked, shocked to see this out of Sturgis. (/sarcasm) Image
So I've been thinking about this a lot. Here's why we're unlikely to ever get a real, clear understanding of the COVID-19 spread caused by Sturgis. (thread)
In a nutshell, Sturgis is bigger than our nationwide COVID-19 testing and contract tracing effort, and it's likely any evidence of spread from Sturgis will fall through the cracks in that patchwork-y system.
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