Ideology virus brings death to the Dakotas

Vermillion South Dakota last week

Frank Bruni today in the NY Times:

...a series of mid-November tweets from a South Dakota emergency room nurse, Jodi Doering, went viral. 

Doering was reeling from tending to dying Covid-19 patients who continued to insist that the coronavirus was some kind of hoax.

They “scream at you for a magic medicine” and warn that Joe Biden will ruin America even as they’re “gasping for breath,” she wrote. 

She added: “They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that ‘stuff’ because they don’t have Covid because it’s not real.”

“They stop yelling at you when they get intubated,” she wrote. “It’s like a horror movie that never ends”...