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...”
“Some of us have been trying our best to survive since March, following recommendations from doctors & scientists, & forgoing fun activities in the interest of safety. Kristi Noem has utterly failed to lead at a time when the citizens of this state needed leadership desperately”
“But her inability to effectively do her job doesn't mean South Dakotans deserve to die more than any human being anywhere else.”
“...I do not understand why they refuse to take action. That is why they were elected, to do what is right. Not to do what they hope will get them re-elected.” 
From @webber_jerry: “Sir - I am a city commissioner in Yankton, S.D. I am a social worker married to a paramedic. He and I are also participants in the third phase of the Moderna vaccine trial. I was one of three who voted in favor of a temporary mask mandate last night..”
“...This is my hometown and I am so frustrated”
Yankton S.D. Mayor, @AnInlandVoyage: “I wish we had that untied front, but instead we have a piecemeal approach. That has resulted in the deaths of more S. Dakotans than should have died. & that's a tragedy that will scar us long after the "politics" of this moment are forgotten.
From ‘Jake’: “To add to your reporting on South Dakota... my parents are terrified by the lack of action and leadership to prevent the spread of covid in South Dakota. It felt like a dream when my Mom sent me this text that said “If we don’t feel safe, we will head north...”
“... (North meaning our cabin in Northern Minnesota where covid cases were/are much, much lower). It reminded me of something you’d hear from someone who lived in a war-torn country like Syria or Afghanistan, not South Dakota.”
“600 South Dakota physicians signed this letter in support of masks and it is being published in the daily papers. Will it help? Time will tell.” twitter.com/messages/media…
“I work in the ER at a hospital in Sioux Falls. I have only seen my family twice since March. Both my dad & stepmom are considered high risk, as is my brother in law. I stay away because I love them. I wear a mask wherever I go, I only shop once a week, mostly curbside pickup...”
“... The hypocrisy from so many I know and considered smart, honest people is demoralizing. Even those who work in healthcare seem to have this sense that it can’t or won’t happen to them. I know coworkers have held weddings, gone on vacation, been to parties...”
“... and they just don’t see the disconnect. Multiple people in our department have gotten Covid. Thank goodness, none have been too severe. But this only inflates their sense of entitlement to a “normal life” even as we literally watch patients dying in front of us daily...”
“... I’m terrified that the next couple months will be more horrific than even my anxious mind can imagine.”
“...Thank you so much for not letting the coverage of the sad state of Covid affairs in South Dakota go! As a state employee, I don’t want to state anything publicly, but our lack of leadership from Gov. Noem is absolutely disgusting...”
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