Just as COVID-battling science regains a foothold lost to a year of madman politics which oozed out of the White House, the power-hungry
GOP death cultists at the State Capitol in Madison are maneuvering to forbid a masking mandate in Wisconsin:
The move comes as deaths from COVID-19 are spiking in Wisconsin despite new cases being at their lowest level in four months, albeit much higher than they were last summer. Republicans have also introduced a series of bills to take more control over the response to the pandemic, including requiring that everyone in the state be eligible for the vaccine in mid-March regardless of whether supply can meet demand.
To date, 5,643 people have died from COVID-19 in Wisconsin and more than 530,000 have tested positive, according to the state Department of Health Services.
The maneuver employs a joint resolution of the Legislature which Gov. Evers cannot veto. This is the same maneuver through which the GOP could enact another decade of democracy-strangling gerrymandering that has given them more power than is deserved by their statewide vote totals.