It's fair to say that Wisconsin's statewide effort to contain the spread of Covid-19 remains supremely screwed up.
That's because the GOP's little legislative dictators in year two of a power-grabbing binge (assisted by a friend of the court brief from the Tavern League of Wisconsin) waltzed to a State Supreme Court ruling surprising
no one which abruptly ended - without the Republican's promised alternative - Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' proposed extension of the science-based virus-suppressing 'Safer-at-Home' order.
And here we are with Wisconsin's official count again showing a not-surprising spiking growth of new Covid-19 cases; when the Court issued its infamous ruling, Wisconsin had reported 10,902 cases. Saturday, June 27, the reported total was 27,286.
We're now among the states with at least a 50% growth in new cases in the last two weeks. So we're not Texas and Florida, but is that really what you want to put on your bumper-sticker?
And, hey, give it time and we just get there now that more businesses, bars and restaurants are open, and our beach weather is where it was in Texas and Florida a few weeks ago.
Science is bunk.
We're not all in this together.
I'm in the wrong job.
Forget that being your brother or sister or grandparents' keeper these days, but feel free to be their vector.
That's because the GOP's little legislative dictators in year two of a power-grabbing binge (assisted by a friend of the court brief from the Tavern League of Wisconsin) waltzed to a State Supreme Court ruling surprising
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Right-wing WI Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack wrote the 4-3 majority opinion shelving the state's Safer-at-Home order - while the Court safely met online. |
And here we are with Wisconsin's official count again showing a not-surprising spiking growth of new Covid-19 cases; when the Court issued its infamous ruling, Wisconsin had reported 10,902 cases. Saturday, June 27, the reported total was 27,286.
We're now among the states with at least a 50% growth in new cases in the last two weeks. So we're not Texas and Florida, but is that really what you want to put on your bumper-sticker?
And, hey, give it time and we just get there now that more businesses, bars and restaurants are open, and our beach weather is where it was in Texas and Florida a few weeks ago.
Despite COVID-19 uptick, Bradford Beach continues to draw large crowdsThe message sent to beach-goers and others eager to hear what they wanted from the majority on its already openly-compromised Supreme Court by catering to Republican ultra-partisan posturing, contorted 'freedom' orthodoxies and special-interest obeisance isn't much different than what Trump intentionally communicates with his embrace of quack virus 'treatments' and his refusal to lead by wearing a mask:
Science is bunk.
We're not all in this together.
I'm in the wrong job.
Forget that being your brother or sister or grandparents' keeper these days, but feel free to be their vector.