Kumbe South Dakota kiasi fulani walifuata utaratibu wa kutoweka lockdown kali. Na matokeo ni kwamba wana nafuu ya athari zinazotokana na Covid 19 kuliko majimbo mengine nchini Marekani .
Hii ni kwa mujibu wa Governor wa jimbo hilo. Yawezekana ndiyo Maana US haijaja kujifunza Tanzania namna ya kushughulika na Covid19 kwa staili yetu.
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South Dakota has been a target for media attacks because, as the only US state that hasn't ordered any lockdowns or mask mandates during the pandemic, it's a real-life counterpoint to the states that have crippled their economies or imposed restrictions on personal freedoms to mitigate the spread of Covid-19
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Brennan continued on that theme on Sunday, suggesting that Noem's policies were contrary to CDC guidelines and were at least partly to blame for South Dakota having the eighth-highest rate of Covid-19 deaths per capita in the US. Noem replied that CDC recommendations have changed repeatedly, in some cases because of political pressure, and that South Dakota has
"followed the science" in a way that also considers the economic and social wellbeing of citizens.
Noem added that South Dakota's Covid-19 cases peaked earlier than those in other parts of the country, but now are much lower than in many states. She argued that the important question to explore is whether draconian mitigation measures would have helped.
"What we're seeing is that the mandates aren't necessarily working."
In fact, New Jersey and New York – Democrat-run states with some of the most stringent Covid-19 policies – have the
highest death rates in the nation. New Jersey has a 23 percent higher death rate than South Dakota. New Jersey's December jobless rate
was 7.6 percent, compared with South Dakota's three percent, and the state said the figure would have been far higher if it had counted residents who gave up looking for work.
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Ironically, it’s not Noem’s, but New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s state that long had the highest number of Covid-19 deaths – before recently being
overtaken by California – and still has the second-highest rate of deaths per capita. And yet, Cuomo wrote a book on his successes in managing the pandemic crisis and won an Emmy Award for his Covid-19 briefings. He was celebrated for his leadership despite ordering nursing homes to accept people infected with Covid-19, before being accused this month of
covering up the state's high rate of nursing home deaths
White House adviser Anthony Fauci and his media allies have joined forces in rebuking Kristi Noem after the lockdown-skeptic South Dakota governor had the temerity to criticize the Covid czar’s forecast she said hadn’t come true.
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