Covid BS, page-28

One of the messages implicit in this Forbes magazine story from Nov. 18 is don't go to North Dakota for a holiday anytime soon.

unless of course you want to get infected with Covid-19, which isn't part of my plan.

here's the start of its report:

"1 In Every 1,000 North Dakota Residents Has Been Killed By Covid"

"In a crisis exacerbated by a shortage of healthcare workers and a lack of virus-curbing measures from the state’s Republican leadership, North Dakota is battling the highest Covid-19 mortality rate in the world, with 1 in every 1,000 residents now dead from the virus.

"North Dakota reached the morbid milestone on Tuesday, reporting 26 new deaths, which brought the state’s total to 769 out of a population of roughly 762,000, according to the 2019’s census estimate.

"A day earlier, analysis published by the Federation of American Scientists showed that last week North Dakota had the highest Covid-19 mortality rate of any other state or country in the world at 18.2 deaths per million.

"The majority of North Dakota’s deaths and cases (which have now left around 1 in 12 residents infected with the virus) came in the past two months. "