WI COVID caseload, death count explain Vos hesitation vs. mask order

Despite WI GOP Majority Leader Fitzgerald's bluster about overturning Gov. Evers COVID-19-fighting


'masks-indoors' order, we've seen no movement towards an actual legislative vote because Assembly Speaker Vos doesn't have the votes to do it, according to at least one GOP state representative.

And why is that?

Because Wisconsin citizens polled strongly support the mask order, and data etched in blood released today makes clear why.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 724 more cases and eight more deaths, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 61,785 and the number of deaths to 1,006. 
That's more than five people dying per day, or one person every four to five hours, since Wisconsin confirmed its first case a little over six months ago.
Vos understands that he and Fitzgerald - who's soon to depart for a Congressional seat - can't afford to be so outrageous as to threaten their bigger partisan, power-grabbing goal: saving GOP legislative seats and tipping enough Democratic seatsinstalling veto-proof majorities in both legislative houses which would really hamstring Evers' authority for two years.

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