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"Right now Wisconsin is battling the worst coronavirus outbreak in America. The question is why. What about Wisconsin is different from, say, the neighboring states of Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois, where the virus isnt spreading nearly as fast?
The answer, at least in part, is politics: specifically, the brand of cavalier, it-will-go-away politics propagated by President Trump and parroted by lower-level Republicans who seem hell-bent on resisting efforts to sustain social distancing and mask wearing when the spread is still low enough to contain and in Wisconsins case, who continue to resist even after infections spiral out of control. "
https://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-is-battling-americas-worst-coronavirus-outbreak-and-the-states-broken-politics-is-partially-to-blame-143650745.html
John Ludi
(589 posts)moved to the woods of SW WI after spending all my prior life in big cities, I am not at all surprised...it's a cultural clown show out here.
Rice4VP
(1,235 posts)I dont know why the media fails to mention this.
Rice4VP
(1,235 posts)I dont know why the media fails to mention this.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,467 posts)ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)beer drinking is a sacrament up there.
back in the day when legal age up there was 18 and it was 21 in IL the border was just nothing but carnage.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,467 posts)Poiuyt
(18,131 posts)Wearing a mask, or not, has become a political statement. There are many people here who insist on displaying their "individualism."
GReedDiamond
(5,318 posts)Exactly! Earlier I saw for the first time - and have not seen it again, yet - a PSA that showed a mask with the voice-over:
"This is a mask. It is not a political statement..." to summarize the main point of the message.
Hopefully this ad will soon saturate the tv outlets. I did not catch who/what paid for the ad.
North Shore Chicago
(3,335 posts)back in early July, saw numerous folks (maskless) outside of bars hooting it up. Remember thinking, "those dummies will pay for this."
Having a democratic governor does not offset the stubbornness of their Republican majority.