Iowa Gov Reynolds closes bars in 6 counties

[SharonClark]

until September 20 due to new cases in the college age group. 69% of cases in Johnson County (Iowa) and 74% in Story County (ISU) are attributed to college age people.

[virgogal]

1. Only college age people go to bars? Odd.

[Iterate]

8. Virus only happens in bars.

Bet you've never seen one in a church.

It's odd too that the six counties are not worst current hotspots and don't necessarily have the largest concentrations of students, but they do have the most democrats.

[badseedboy]

2. 1,349 new cases in Iowa in the past 24 hours.

Johnson County is home to Iowa City, where the downtown bars are geared to students, who can walk to the dorms when the bars close. The bars were open to returning students without mask requirements or even suggestions. They were packed; no social distancing. Soon the rate of positive cases ballooned threefold from a daily average of 400.

[Yavin4]

3. But Mike Pence said that we were opening up America.

What gives?

[Bengus81]

4. We've had almost 12,000 new cases in Kansas since 8/1

Two days ago we had 1279 in 24 hours. It's exploding in Kansas for only ONE reason...Republicans. Our Democratic Gov Laura Kelly outlined a four phase reopen plan which could be moved backwards if numbers weren't met. We were doing pretty good a couple of months ago but then then the County commissioners here in Wichita (Sedgwick Co) and other State Republicans said to hell with that Liberal Governor and opened everything up and to unlimited capacity.

Not long after....BOOM.

Insanity.......

[magicarpet]

5. Pence is the guy who when governor,... he let HIV explode,...

.... without containment effort because his religious doctrine dictated otherwise.

Activists in the communities were begging for a needle exchange program because drug addicted people were causing the explosive growth of HIV.

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One of Vice President Mike Pence’s defining moments during his one term as Indiana governor? Lackluster public health efforts, which led to a massive HIV outbreak. The failure was spurred by public health funding cuts and Pence’s moralistic stance against needle exchanges.

A timeline of the HIV outbreak, the worst in state history, reads like a roadmap of what to do if you want to create a public health crisis.

Pence slashed state health spending.
Pence first laid the groundwork for Indiana’s HIV outbreak as a member of Congress back in 2011, when the House passed his amendment to defund Planned Parenthood. Then, in 2013, Pence’s first year as governor of Indiana, Scott County’s one Planned Parenthood closed in the wake of public health spending cuts. Since that particular Planned Parenthood was also the county’s only HIV testing center, there was no longer a place for the county’s 24,000 residents to get tested.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-pence-indiana-hiv_n_57f53b9be4b002a7312022ef

[GusBob]

6. It would be interesting to see the effect on grades

someone should do a study there

[Frustratedlady]

7. The horse is already out of the barn, Reynolds!

Still no mask mandate? Arrrrrrrrrrgh!

[Iterate]

9. Kim can't count: 'Horrifying' data glitch skews key Iowa coronavirus metrics

‘Horrifying’ data glitch skews key Iowa coronavirus metrics

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A state agency says it is working to fix a data error on Iowa’s coronavirus website that lowers the number of new confirmed cases and therefore downplays the severity of the current outbreak, just as schools are deciding whether to reopen.

The glitch means the Iowa Department of Public Health has inadvertently been reporting fewer new infections and a smaller percentage of daily positive tests than is truly the case, according to Dana Jones, an Iowa City nurse practitioner who uncovered the problem. It’s particularly significant because school districts are relying on state data to determine whether they will offer in-person instruction when school resumes in the coming days and weeks.

Potentially thousands of coronavirus infections from recent weeks and months have instead been erroneously recorded as having happened in March, April, May and June, Jones said Monday.

“It’s just horrifying. We have no idea what’s going on, really,” said Jones.

....

https://apnews.com/c15b742f95a73ba2a45f7e7bf7d7255d

Early in the pandemic I scanned several state's public health agency websites for good data reporting. Iowa was one of the worst, with only a few bar charts that reminded me of a mediocre grade school science project. It was a bad omen, but not unexpected. Trumpers get queasy and slack-jawed if you use numbers.