Iowa leads US in new virus cases after governor bragged about keeping state open

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By Josh Israel -September 1, 2020 9:30 AM

Iowa now has the highest average daily cases per capita of any state.

In early May, Iowa's governor co-wrote an editorial bragging about her state's laissez-faire response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, her state leads the country for most new average new daily cases, per capita, according to data compiled by the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Gov. Kim Reynolds was one of five Republican governors who authored a May 5 Washington Post opinion piece boasting, "Our states stayed open in the [COVID]-19 pandemic. Here's why our approach worked."

"While our specific approaches may differ, we have all kept our states 'open for business' and delivered food and other goods Americans need during this pandemic," Reynolds and Govs. Mark Gordon of Wyoming, Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, and Mark Parson of Missouri wrote. "Our collective experience ensures that our contribution toward reopening our nation's economy is stable, safe and durable. Restarting our economy is not a race to be won but a cooperative effort. Our approach has created a model for success that can be applied throughout the country."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/iowa-covid-19-spike-kim-reynolds-coronavirus-reopening/

Hey Iowa, just think you have a twofer in your state..............you have a governor that thinks that your life doesn't mean shit literally and your state legislature and your right wing counties really don't give a shit literally about your life and then for the grand hypocrisy you have a federal senator.............by the name of Joni Ernst, that supports a traitor and a Putin lackey because she also left a homicidal manic has president, instead of removing his criminal ass, because after all he wants you folks to do the herd death thingy like they are doing in Sweden and that isn't going so well, because both of these psychopaths running your state and the asshole running the country are really a fucking death cult, and I wonder if anyone has started a recall to removed your governor................because after all her responsibility is to protect the citizens of the state and she has not the number's say she is a abject failure............do you get it........................at all...............

To date, more than 64,000 Iowans have contracted the coronavirus — more than 2% of the state's population — and more than 1,100 have died.

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1. 25,000 expected fans at Iowa State football game this Saturday

what could go wrong?

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2. No Thanks................I can wait..............