COVID-19 Reality Bites: In Pictures

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OWN VOICE. ~ InPerspective by Gregg Dieguez

Sometimes you just have to wait for Reality to Bite.  Between the COVID outbreak at the White House and the news from South Dakota, this Virus is looking pretty Old Testament Biblical.

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I woke up this morning to check out the Mid-West COVID outbreak and tripped over this:

Per Capita (100k) Daily New Cases Oct. 9, 2020

You may recall South Dakota, which famously held the Sturgis motorcycle rally, then a State Fair, and whose Republican Governor disputed a study saying the motorcycle rally in Sturgis may have caused as many as 250,000 coronavirus infections, saying they just “made up some numbers and published them.”  And …

“Those larger events have been made possible by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s steadfast resistance to restrictive measures aimed at slowing the spread of the virus. She has discouraged schools from requiring masks, instead promoting hand-washing as the best way to prevent infections, and railed against an “elite class of so-called experts” whose opinions impact individuals’ liberties. “

Which led to these:

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