But, there's been clear evidence that such an outbreak, and eventual vectoring into the wider community, was inevitable for some time before South Dakota blew up. I give you Singapore.
Many of the new clusters have been connected to Singapore's vast migrant worker population, in particular those workers -- most from South Asia -- living in cramped dormitories, who appear to have been overlooked in the initial wave of testing. Multiple dormitories have been quarantined and the government is ramping up testing for all workers.
Singapore, as the report repeats, was considered the model of containment. It wasn't, as events turned out. Bermuda, also an island, though much smaller, didn't keep the wee little critters away, either. Bermuda, so far as I know, doesn't pack foreign workers into sardine can living quarters, although one might see the cruise ships as such. But it has congregant living quarters just like any civilized country, and those are centers of infection, just like any civilized country.
So, crowded production facilities, crowded living quarters, and, tada, congregant living facilities are perfect incubators for Covid-19. And, nobody knew!! Bullshit, of course. Pandemics of all types have always flourished in just those conditions. And, of course, gave/gives rise to the cockeyed notion that heading for the empty spaces is to safety. The highest per capita infection rates are in such isolated, but dense, situations.
On the whole, rural recreation counties suffer from a rate of Covid-19 cases that is more than two and a half times higher than for other rural counties
Naturally, I give you Sioux Falls. Not a recreation county, but a city with a bomb on its doorstep. The Ski Covidiots, in earlier missives, are such an example.
As Singapore's experience shows, relaxing too soon can backfire disastrously.
Will the Red state fucking moron governors listen? The reasonable person might doubt it. DeSantis has shown his reptile brain, already. Again.
It's called a pandemic for a reason. Unless a vaccine can be found, and most of the ones under consideration use a mechanism of action that isn't really established. These new fangled vaccines are theoretically better in some ways, but proof that they can work is sparse. Again, no vaccine has ever been approved for any coronavirus. Given the length of contagion of asymps, low response cases, and ease of travel for such folk, the phat lady ain't even started to warm up those vocal chords. It'll be many months til she sings the first note.
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