re: #60 dat_said
6866 deaths in a MN population of 5.64 million = 0.001217.
1924 deaths in a SD population of 884,659 = 0.002175.Population of US = 328.2 Million.
If overall US matched MN rate then 399543 deaths.
If overall US matched SD rate then 713786 deaths.State policies mattered.
Gee, it’s almost like our governor listened to actual reasonable people and that telling the petulant adolescents in the Senate to go fuck themselves sideways with a rusty spork was the right thing to do.