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Monksdream

11/18/20 7:15 PM

#358846 RE: DesertDrifter #358844

The two Dakota states could accurately be characterized as demographically rural, ever since the settling by Europeans going back to the 17th Century.

I read a book about that region not too long ago that was written, for lack of a better description, by a university educated humantarian.

The Dakota region is a truly difficult region, climatically speaking, to fall in love with.

It would be a good place for Buddhist monks to establish their own particular versions of monasteries.

It is that kind of region, from a spiritual standpoint, wherein one can belong to nothing and achieve that special sense of belonging to everything.

Of course the typical Dakotan would have absolutely nothing to do with Buddihism, much less spiritualism. And yet at the same time these people would think of themselves as devotely religious. Which, in their own way, they are.









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fuagf

11/18/20 7:18 PM

#358847 RE: DesertDrifter #358844

LOL Gotta laugh at butchered words, but past that it's terrible. In the wealthiest country a state with the highest mortality rate in world, they say

Nov 18, 2020,10:37am EST

1 In Every 1,000 North Dakota Residents Has Been Killed By Covid

That's better wording.

Jemima McEvoy Forbes Staff Business
I'm a British-born reporter covering breaking news for Forbes.

Topline

In a crisis exacerbated by a shortage of healthcare workers and a lack of virus-curbing measures from the state’s Republican leadership, North Dakota is battling the highest Covid-19 mortality rate in the world, with 1 in every 1,000 residents now dead from the virus.


Medical staff treat a patient in a COVID-19 intensive care unit. Getty Images

[Sheesh the hidden info on the photo says Texas
Houston Hospital Struggles With Coronavirus Surge In Texas]

Key Facts

* North Dakota reached the morbid milestone on Tuesday, reporting 26 new deaths, which brought the state’s total to 769 out of a population of roughly 762,000, according to the 2019’s census estimate.

* A day earlier, analysis published by the Federation of American Scientists showed that last week North Dakota had the highest Covid-19 mortality rate of any other state or country in the world at 18.2 deaths per million.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/11/18/1-in-every-1000-north-dakota-residents-has-been-killed-by-covid/?sh=2c3f349468e8

Aside: From butchered words to mathematics. Making it 20/million i make that mortality rate 1 in 5000. What am i missing.

Oops, ok just saw how they got the 1/1000.

At the rate they are going N Dakota deaths could top Australia's by the end of your winter ..
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=how+many+covid+deaths+australia .. 769 to 907 today.
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sortagreen

11/19/20 9:47 AM

#358887 RE: DesertDrifter #358844

RE: North Dakota Milestone

The official death toll is about 250k, but it can be argued that that's a serious undercount. The excess deaths in 2020 are north of 300k. Absent findings of a massive spike in suicides or a rash of stabbings, we can conclude that 1 in a thousand is pretty much the national rate as well.

...and counting.
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sortagreen

11/19/20 9:53 AM

#358888 RE: DesertDrifter #358844