In One Small Prairie Town, Two Warring Divisions in America

[turbinetree]

By TIM SULLIVAN
39 minutes ago


BENSON, Minn. (AP) — The newspaper hit the front porches of the wind-scarred prairie town on a Thursday afternoon: Coronavirus numbers were spiking in the farming communities of western Minnesota.

“Covid-19 cases straining rural clinics, hospitals, staff,” read the front-page headline. Vaccinate to protect yourselves, health officials urged.

But ask around Benson, stroll its three-block business district, and some would tell a different story: The Swift County Monitor-News, the tiny newspaper that’s reported the news here since 1886, is not telling the truth. The vaccine is untested, they say, dangerous. And some will go further: People, they’ll tell you, are being killed by COVID-19 vaccinations.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-minnesota-religion-9574b717faebdba81f749a0501a8167b

[dalton99a]

1. Great article. The Monitor-News is a dying breed

Lots of thoughtful editorials

http://www.swiftcountymonitor.com/articles/2021/10/13/rot-heart-our-discontent

[MineralMan]

2. Stupid and Ignorant Know No Boundaries

Rural communities all across the country are coming to grips with COVID-19, as it spreads to the smallest populated places. Worse, those places have the least medical care and fewest medical facilities anywhere.

Most Minnesotans live within an hour or two drive from the Minneapolis St. Paul metro area, which has ample facilities and medical professionals. However, it's a big state with small rural communities in every direction. They are finally seeing the impact, and it's not pretty.

Along with distance from major population centers, small towns like the one in that story also have limited access to broadband Internet connections. You also won't find fast cell phone service in many of them. Information comes from tiny newspapers like that one and AM radio. Not a good combination.

[maxrandb]

3. I am willing to bet that the AM Radio station has it's offices and studio in Minneapolis St Paul

Broadcasting 24/7, dehumanizing and demeaning the majority of the citizens of the very city they call "home".

I would also bet that there are not protests at the AM stations offices and studio, and no organized boycott campaigns against the local businesses that fund this AM station.

An evil, vile, destructive propaganda arm is operating in plan sight, and not one damn thing as being done to hold it, and the people that fund it, to account.

It's like having a KKK Headquarters in the middle of a diverse community, and ignoring the harm it does.

[Ocelot II]

5. It's probably a Sinclair station, which is national

and very well-funded and powerful. Protesting the local or Minneapolis office would be fruitless, I’m afraid.

[Ocelot II]

4. They listen to AM hate radio and watch Fox, or worse.

Anything that contradicts what they get from those sources is dismissed as fake news. I don’t know how or even if it’s possible to break through that wall.

[MineralMan]

6. Outstate Minnesota Is Like a Different State,

or so it seems to me. I don't honestly think it's possible to break through the wall.

[Ocelot II]

7. Cold Alabama.

[MineralMan]

8. LOL!

[maxsolomon]

9. Basically, the educated and rational

versus rural dumb fucks? That sounds about right.

The pastor is doing funerals of people who died of the vaccine? He knows that... how? Because the bereaved told him?