Stan had this response today on FB;
Has the Governor answered my open letter.
The answer is NO.
A better question that was raised in a call to me today.
When did the Governor first know about the 80 cases at Smithfield? And even more, why did she not report it on the daily State page — that many of us follow carefully? Surely all of these did not occur in ONE day!
Then a final question is from me. Does Kristi Noem care about the health of South Dakotans? Why were the people of Minnehaha and Lincoln Counties NOT warned of the danger of 80 new cases –
Eighty!! Is she lacking in the knowledge that one case – as widely discussed in the news, TV and radio — that one case usually is spread to 10 people???
Why, indeed was NO ONE warned? What about people from the Hills that have visited Sioux Falls, or even planning to go there, where UNLIKE Rapid City there are numerous restaurants and bars open
The Mayor of Sioux Falls just announced (almost proudly) that his community has 182.2 infections per 100 thousand people.
And, strangely he almost boasted “more than Seattle!”
Why, oh why has he not done what Mayor Steve Allender and our Council have done. After his exclamation it occurred to my ridiculous engineer mind we have less than 8 infections per hundred thousand.
In fact last night, looking at the US Census county population count, Lincoln and Minnehaha have a population of 192 thousand to Pennington’s 112 thousand. 2.24 times more, that means at 10 infection spreaders 174 more chances of someone getting pain, suffering or death.
And this was hidden?? For how long?? And WHY for G-d”s name????
Some surprise holiday gift from the Mayor and Governor, I suppose.
Stan Adelstein – finish my third week in isolation in Keystone yesterday.