Hundreds of Preventable COVID Deaths in Iowa

The one question in my mind is will #COVIDKim be prosecuted, if not criminally, then civil court? I can only hope that the arc of history moves slowly towards justice, because the current day Republican party, both in Iowa and nationally, has so much blood on it's hands as to be worthy of criminal prosecution. COVID is just one of the wrongs perpetrated on the pwople of Iowa. It should not shock me. Kim Reynolds said back in August that Iowa still had hospital beds available so there was no need to increase restrictions in response to the rapid rise in the number of cases. On the record she made it clear that her job is not to protect individuals but rather herself and those who she is beholden to and not the public. The result was that young people got COVID, gave it to vulnerable elders and some of them died as a result. The hospitals had to create numerous new ICU beds and staff them with whatever resources they could muster, but there were beds for people to die in. Now, as over 50 Iowans a day die of COVID, she has lifted all restrictions, while bungling the vaccine effort more thoroughly than any other state. Iowa is dead last in administering vaccines, and people are dying as a result. The projection for total deaths from COVID if we had locked down completely was 300 people total--now that has on occasion been the weekly death toll. I hope there is a reckoning day, if not now then in the future. Kim Reynolds should resign and let someone else clean up her mess. She is not up to the task.