'Open-now' ignores power of virus tracked to WI from 1st west coast infection

Anyone urging that the Wisconsin be reopened despite continuing Covid-19 cases and deaths 

Brookfield, WI over the weekend

might want to read at least these lines in a detailed NY Times report and note that the first unintentional transmission of the virus in the US has spread to six countries and 14 US states, including Wisconsin.

But of all the branches that researchers have found, the strain from Washington State remains the earliest and one of the most potent.  

It has surfaced in Arizona, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming, and in six countries. 

And new cases are still surfacing.

That's how predictably virulent is this invisible and deadly disease.

Ginned-up rallies that disregard what we already know while putting people - - including bystanders, first-responders and hospital workers - - at risk are dangerous and irresponsible.

Politicians who would use this pandemic as yet another partisan power grab are underestimating the virus's greater power:

The 'leaders' of Wisconsin's GOP Legislature Death Cult - - Cap Times editor emeritus had called them "ghouls" - - asked the State Supreme Court Tuesday to reject Gov. Evers' extended emergency "Safer-at-Home' order in part because..."positive COVID cases decrease or remain flat."

Yeah, it's all about sanitized algorithms and bloodless numbers for one-dimensional political junkies to whom political power gaming is their always-on-taxpayer-paid ventilator.

As these GOP 'leaders' play their latest version of 'Tarnish Tony,' let's remember that there are thousands of Wisconsin names, faces, friends and families - - along with countless more thousands of front-line medical personnel and first responders - - who are suffering and in harm's way or grieving along side every positive and tragic Covid-19 case.

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