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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHot spots erupt in farm belt states where governors insist lockdowns aren't needed
You could call this the "next wave" and it was due to come, along with all the implications of it.
Cases in parts of the heartland are starting to spike, raising concern about new hot spots that could quash Trumps push to reopen the economy.
The only hospital in Grand Island, Neb., is full. The mayor has asked for a statewide stay-at-home order that the GOP governor insists isnt needed. More than one-third of those tested for coronavirus in the surrounding county are positive and there arent enough tests to go around.
Grand Island is the fourth-biggest city in a state President Donald Trump and his top health officials repeatedly name check for keeping the virus at bay without the strict lockdowns 42 other states have imposed.
Except that new cases there and in Iowa, South Dakota and other parts of the heartland are starting to spike, raising concern about new hot spots that could quash Trumps push to reopen the economy and extend the public health crisis well into the summer.
Trump and red state governors for weeks have fairly bragged about how large parts of the farm belt have escaped the ravages of the virus without the enforced shelter-in-place policies common on both coasts. Its still unclear whether the states actually flattened the curve, or if the virus just reached there later. But now, cases are erupting, threatening a local population that doesnt always have easy access to the same health care as more urban areas. And the outbreaks are striking the heart of the nations farming and meatpacking industry, potentially disrupting the national distribution of food as meat processing plants close down and truckers who move food across the country are sidelined by illness.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/coronavirus-hot-spots-farm-belt-189272
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Hot spots erupt in farm belt states where governors insist lockdowns aren't needed (Original Post)
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gibraltar72
(7,504 posts)1. Gonna touch everyone some sooner some later.
Butterflylady
(3,543 posts)2. I'm sorry
But what goes around comes around. If their dumb enough to believe faux news than so be it
getagrip_already
(14,750 posts)3. I see this in a lot of places...
People saying "it isn't in my county yet, so we don't need masks or other measures". You can't stop stupid from killing; death loves stupid.