As governors across the country fell into line in recent weeks, South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem stood firm: There would be no statewide order to stay home. https://wapo.st/3a21qSI
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Now South Dakota is home to one of the largest single coronavirus clusters anywhere in the United States, with more than 300 workers at a giant pork-processing plant falling ill.https://wapo.st/3ekjWsT
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Noem continued to resist calls for a shelter-in-place order. Instead, she used a briefing Monday to announce trials of a drug President Trump has touted as a potential breakthrough in the fight against covid-19, despite a lack of scientific evidence.https://wapo.st/3ekjWsT
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The piecemeal approach to combating the coronavirus in South Dakota offers a throwback to America’s not-so-distant past, the period around a month ago when governors were still leery of using their powers to order people to stay at home.https://wapo.st/3ekjWsT
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It also may offer a glimpse of the country’s near-term future, as pressure builds — not least from the president — to reopen after a weeks-long shutdown. Trump has been eager to get the economy on its feet again by the beginning of May.https://wapo.st/3ekjWsT
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Yet as South Dakota’s experience shows, no part of the country is immune to being ravaged by the virus. And rescinding orders that people stay at home — or declining to issue them — offers plenty of peril. https://wapo.st/3ekjWsT
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Aren't they an essential business? Wouldn't they have remained open anyway ?
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Yes, but obviously that plant, nor the state, took initiatives to make sure that plant was operating with PPE, proper guidelines to social distancing, the whole nine yards. Now it is a plant that nobody should go back to.
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