A federal judge issued an astronomical strike to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, says in a decision this week that the state has done “very little, if anything” to stop COVID-19 from plundering the state. Sioux Falls Head of Argus reports that U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann ordered a state court to suspend the pandemic as an excuse to delay the defendant’s lawsuit. It then followed the state response to the crisis itself. “South Dakota has done little, if anything, to reduce the spread of the virus,” he wrote. “South Dakota cannot‘ take advantage ’of its own failures to pursue scientific facts and defenses in infiltrating the denial of the rights of rapid trials. “Noem has defied mask orders and other lockout measures, even though her state was raising one of the worst per capita disease rates in the country. “Her example strongly encourages southern Dakotans not to wear masks,” the judge wrote. “South Dakota is now a dangerous place to live because of the spread of COVID-19.”
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