In terms of how many people have cases per million residents, the world's worst hellholes are:
• Andorra (a quasi country between Spain and France)- 46,868 cases per million residents• Qatar (the vast majority of whose residents are virtual slaves)- 46,182 cases per million residents• Bahrain (a densely populated tiny collection of islands, most of whose residents are virtual slaves)- 45,514 cases per million residents• North Dakota- 44,178 cases per million residents• Aruba (a densely populated 69 square mile Dutch colony specializing in off-shore money laundering in the Caribbean)- 40,738 cases per million residents• South Dakota- 38,949 cases per million residents
The Dakotas are part of Trumpistan. Both have become one-party states in all but name. Each has a worthless Republican governor who has welcomed COVID with open arms and who should be tried for negligent homicide, all GOP congressional delegations and overwhelmingly Republican legislatures. Most people who live there are getting what they want. My heart breaks for normal folks who live in the Dakotas. A case can be made that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has caused more people to get COVID than anyone else in the country other than Trump, having purposefully infected tens of thousands of people, not just in her own wretched state but in North Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado and Missouri, Wyoming. She is Queen of the Super-Spreader events, having hosted some of the most deadly in the world. She and her Trumpist state legislature-- 59 Republicans, 11 Dems in the state House and 30 Republicans and 5 Dems in the state Senate-- have consistently promulgated a pro-COVID agenda that has made their state one of the most dangerous places on earth. Steve Haugaard, the House Speaker has been so sick with COVID that he has been in intensive care twice this month. Having helped make certain that as many Dakotans would die as possible, Haugaard whined, "It's been the most devastating stuff I've ever had in my life." Awwwww. One of his colleagues, state Rep. Bob Glanzer (R-Huron) died of the disease. Good news, in manner of speaking: Haugaard will live-- to continue making sure other Dakotans die.
