governor noem on facebook today talking some more about not putting out a statewide stay-at-home order: https://www.facebook.com/govnoem/videos/516882565916074/

noem says "a lot of people in the state that think if we issue a stay-at-home order, that that will mean we’ll get through this a lot faster, that the virus will pass through and we’ll be done with it in a couple of weeks, and that that will help us get through this."

"it’s actually the exact opposite," she says. "the longer we keep people isolated, which is important and we need to do that, and the more stringent we are at making sure that we’re keeping people in their homes ...

... it actually pushes our modeling out to show that we won’t reach our peak infection rate until much later.”

noem continues (1/3) “if we were to let everybody go back to their normal activities today, we’d have a lot of people get sick real fast, and we'd reach our peak infection rate earlier right away, and a lot of people would get sick and we might lose family members ...

... and not be able to handle all of the patients that we might need to at our hospitals. and that’s why we’re not letting people just live their daily lives normally. we’re trying to keep them home, keep them isolated, but just know that when we do isolate people ...

... and we do take those mitigation measures to force people to stay in their homes and not have any activity whatsoever, it makes sure that this event and this isolation period is much longer, and our peak infection rate will be much later.”

"by locking everything down, that makes it last longer," noem says. and then there's no guarantee that when we do let people go back to their lives that we wouldn't see a huge spike in infections at that point in time because we've let them interact with each other."

"if we isolate everybody and keep them in their homes," noem says, "when we do go back to normal, it will make sure that we have higher rates of infection."

this seems like different reasoning from yesterday's press conference, where noem spoke mostly about how she believed south dakota didn't need to take actions like the rest of the country — not that those actions would make things worse in the end.