There's lot of social pressure on our Governor Kristi Noem to order a state wide "lock down". She has stated that she doesn't think the SD Constitution, let alone the U.S. Constitution, allow her to do things such as other governors are doing, such as mandating certain businesses close, etc. etc. Noem has stated that some of these decisions have to be done at the local level such as using city health departments-- I think she is trying to distance the state when the eventual lawsuits come from people who think elected politicians violated their rights, we'll see.
I think both Sioux Falls and Rapid City governments will issue more strict rules, Sioux Falls probably this coming week. I'm trying to see what certain proposed things, such as a city-wide curfew would do. Most places where larger groups of people gather at night have already been affected by increasing rules or bailed out on their own to do some self-serving virtue signaling. Anyway, I saw a fb post of photos taken in Sioux Falls over the past week or more of how things have changed. I thought I'd share a few:
Too many kids, now supposedly learning from home, playing basketball at city parks. The Parks and Rec people will show you!!
And don't try using the bathrooms or a drinking fountains at the park (sort of early for outside drinking fountains anyway)
Big corporation movie theater virtue signaling or maybe they fell under the no more than 10 people rule. Probably both
Goodwills closed for a month. This sort of hits home for my ebay hobby of re-selling a few things but no one appears to be buying on ebay right now or at least the stuff I offer
Or at Savers, although I don't go there because I can't flip anything from there, prices are too high for what I can sell items on-line
The big mall is closed
Even Walmart has some sort of restrictions. I haven't experienced this one yet, making shoppers only use 1 entrance, maybe they're checking for fevers when people are coming through the door?? I think I'll pass on this one...
But, we need more social control and more out of work people. I don't know what models the governor is seeing but supposedly between 30-70% of South Dakota's pop will end up testing positive and our peak won't happen to mid-June or later. Sorry, about 200 positive people as of yesterday evening, don't see that reaching 255,000 by mid-summer- that would be the 30% level. I guess we're all supposed to start licking door handles to get that done!! Maybe the models are right and I'm wrong. I've worked with modelers, such projections are only as good as the data and assumptions used in building them. Sometimes they're close in projection what will happen, something they go wide, sometimes way wide. I guess we'll see by September, if the wheels don't come off the socioeconomic bus first. I wonder if Vegas is giving odds on what the covid numbers will be for each state by a certain date? Someone may make some money...