Governor Noem Signs Executive Order to Give Updated Guidance for State Employees

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Governor Noem Signs Executive Order to Give Updated Guidance for State Employees

PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem signed an executive order to give updated guidance to state employees and agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Executive Order 2020-22 lays out how Governor Noem’s “Back to Normal” plan will apply to state government. The EO provides cabinet secretaries and bureau commissioners the authority to have all employees come back to the office. The EO still allows admin leave for employees who cannot come in and cannot work remotely. It also allows for approved out-of-state work-related travel. This executive order rescinds Executive Order 2020-09 and is effective through May 31, 2020.

To learn more about executive orders to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, please visit COVID.sd.gov.

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10 thoughts on “Governor Noem Signs Executive Order to Give Updated Guidance for State Employees”

  1. The Secretary of Health said the other day that we are still not expected to reach peak infection until June. Apparently the state is determined to make sure that everyone is exposed to the possibility of infection so we can get to the peak asap.

    1. Don’t worry, in a few years you might get over Sutton not being elected.

  2. How’s our hydroxychloroquine medical experiment going? Haven’t heard much about this medical quackery.

    1. It’s obviously too soon for study results to be published, but South Dakota currently has the Lowest Case Fatality Rate (CFR) in the nation. There may indeed be a correlation, and we’ll see the published results in due time.

      Until then, if you test positive, you have the right to refuse treatment by anything you consider “medical quackery.

    1. First, it is not clear that surviving an infection means you are immune. There have been reports of reinfections, with the symptoms being more severe the second time around. Either way, I take it you are happy to sacrifice any person who is older or otherwise at risk, given that there is no way to physically distance effectively in a warren of cubicles. Have you not seen the studies of air flow and how the virus carries over store aisles? Do you really think cubicle dividers are any different?

        1. Thanks for demonstrating you like to be snarky about not caring about people and public health.

          As of April 24, no study has shown that the presence of antibodies — proteins that fight off pathogens — to the virus means you are protected from reinfection.

          Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242432561.html#storylink=cpy

          https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/24912/20200226/covid-19-reinfection-is-possible-experts-say.htm

          https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/its-possible-for-coronavirus-to-reinfect-recovered-patients-chinese-expert-warns/

          https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-japan-confirms-first-case-of-person-being-reinfected-with-covid-19-11944295

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