GET ME REWRITE: Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt, anti-masker and Trump Loyalist Clown Show cast member, ignored advice on Covid mitigation measures

Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma

New York Times, 1/13/2021

Oklahoma is in the grip of a frightening surge of the coronavirus, the worst it has yet seen and one of the worst in America’s winter. 

Mercy Hospital Ardmore, in rural Oklahoma, has so many Covid-19 patients that some people are being cared for in curtained-off areas of hallways and the emergency department’s waiting room. It has been this way for weeks.

New York Times

The Oklahoman, 1/9/2021

Original 7/15/2020, "Retiring Guy is shocked!  Shocked!", starts here.

Headline:  Tulsa World, 7/15/2020

Data:  COVID Tracking Project

Related reading:
Gov Stitt a major reason many Oklahomans still casual about COVID-19.  (Oklahoma Free Press, 4/1/2020)
Governor Who Repeatedly Refused Masks and Social Distancing Is ‘Pretty Shocked’ He’s Been Infected With Coronavirus.  (The New Civil Rights Movement, 7/15/2020)