.@anniegowen on how COVID has ravaged Mitchell, SD.
"Restaurants were packed. Big weddings and funerals went on as planned.
Then people started dying. The wife of the former bank president. A state legislator. The guy whose family owned the bike shop." washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12…
"Restaurants were packed. Big weddings and funerals went on as planned.
Then people started dying. The wife of the former bank president. A state legislator. The guy whose family owned the bike shop." washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12…
"The anti-mask forces sat with naked faces, defying the mayor’s order. One by one, they got up to air their grievances. They wept. They swore. They cited junk science: Positivity defeats the virus. So does a healthy lifestyle, eating wild-caught sardines,..
pasture-raised beef liver and drinking raw organic kombucha. A young mother stood up and compared anti-maskers to Jews persecuted in the Holocaust: “The bare face is the new yellow star of Nazi Germany,” she said."
"The growth he had been so carefully recording had exploded in recent weeks, with 359 cases Oct. 1 to 1,912 that morning.
The positivity rate at two local testing sites — a key indicator of the virus’s hold on a community — would soar to 49% near the end of [November]."
The positivity rate at two local testing sites — a key indicator of the virus’s hold on a community — would soar to 49% near the end of [November]."
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