Sioux Falls, S.D. bar called “Shenanigans” is hosting a #goobletillyouwobble tonight.
S.D. leads the world, per capita, in daily COVID deaths.
Sioux Falls has a mask mandate but officials stripped it of any enforcement.
Businesses are asked to police themselves & their customers.
Sioux Falls doesn’t have a capacity limit for businesses either. The smaller city of Brookings does. That’s about an hour north of Sioux Falls. It’s a college town with a mask mandate and a capacity mandate and it’s among the lowest infection rate among cities in the state.
Starting a thread with COVID related messages I’m getting from residents in South Dakota: “As a person living in Sioux Falls, with a young and growing family, I've never experienced such a level of disappointment in the place where I live...
“...I’m embarrassed and disgusted by Kristi Noem's approach to "leadership". That said, I still believe that there are so many good and intelligent people in this state...”
“... This brings me to my next point, which is that based on what I've seen in the replies to your tweets, people living in South Dakota are being perceived by people in other places as stupid and therefore deserving of death via covid. This couldn't be further from the truth...”
BREAKING:CEO of Sanford Health, largest health system in the Dakotas, FIRED after saying there’s no COVID crisis & he’s against mask mandates. His chief medical officer told me Sunday there is a crisis & Governor @KristiNoem should implement a mask mandate keloland.com/news/local-new…
The fmr CEO, who wasn’t a Dr., spoke to CBS affiliate @keloland last week. @AngelaKennecke interviewed him. We used part of that interview on @CBSThisMorning & then the chief medical officer @DrAllisonW contradicted him based on her clinical assessment. Now, 24hrs later, he’s out
For the last 3 days my team requested an interview with South Dakota’s Governor.
Her office said she’s not available.
She has said she’s giving people the COVID info they need & not issuing mandates.
S.D. leads the world in the number of people dying daily.
What’s next Governor?
The chief medical officer of the largest health system in the Dakotas said for the first time, on our air, that the governor should institute a mask mandate statewide. In response, the governors office directed us to something the governor said a week who.
If counting on people to be personally responsible is not cutting it, since your state leads the world in people dying daily, then what’s the next play, Governor? Just stay the course or listen to the doctors?
BREAKING: Puerto Rico special prosecutor declines to file criminal charges against fmr Governor @ricardorossello over a telegram chat scandal that led to his resignation. “Even with all the indignation that...the Chat has generated, this is not enough..to file criminal charges.”
JUST IN: Texas Appeals Court temporarily stops the shut down order in El Paso county until the court can issue a final decision. The Texas Attorney General has gone after the top official in El Paso county who ordered the shutdown b/c COVID19 has overwhelmed hospitals & morgues.
The Puerto Rico Elections Commission President says the FBI asked him if the 182 boxes of uncounted ballots involved fraud. The president said he told them no. He believes incompetence is to blame. As of now, the boxes have been opened. There may be as many as 3,000 ballots.