Hailing her state as the only one in the U.S. that did not declare shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates, business closures, or defining essential business, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem fired back at the national failing of U.S. health experts during the pandemic.
"I don't know if you agree with me, but Dr. [Anthony] Fauci is wrong a lot," Noem said during her CPAC speech Saturday, pointing to the top U.S. infectious disease expert who told her South Dakota would get up to 10,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations in a day.
"My administration resisted the call for virus control at the expense of everything else," she continued, noting hospitalizations and not infection rates were her primary concern.
"Truthfully, I never thought that the decisions that I was making were going to be unique. I thought that there would be more than would follow basic conservative principles, but I guess I was wrong."
"Often the enforcement isn't based on facts; justifying these mitigation efforts has been anything but scientific," Noem said.
Noem got laughs as she noted ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to give Noem advice on handling the pandemic.
"Now, that is the media's COVID hero."
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