Governor KIM REYNOLDS is appallingly inept
Posted: 2020, Oct 17, Sat, 8:11 am
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story ... 664357001/How does Iowa compare to other Midwest states with farm-based economies? Based on current data: Wisconsin, at 25, Nebraska 27.8, South Dakota 31, Missouri 35.8, Minnesota 39.1, and North Dakota 46.2, all lead Iowa's 49.5 deaths per 100,000 residents.
Iowa has very weak COVID-19 public health measures — the only state by policy to both not require mask use and to require students to return to school in person. Add to this widespread opening of bars, restaurants and sporting events. And, most recently, removal of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and White House guidelines for quarantining for 14 days after close contact with a COVID-19 positive case if both parties had been wearing masks.
universal mask use policy has been found to save lives.
Iowa will not relinquish its rank as the worst state in our region, in the second-worst country among G-7 nations. The primary failure of the U.K. and U.S. pandemic responses has been failures of leadership, together with denial of science and sidelining of their public health agencies. Both Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Donald Trump, both false public health prophets, have been hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia.
Iowans have every right to express outrage at these failures in public health leadership that have cost so many lives, and demand a universal mask mandate and retraction of the recent weakened quarantine policy.