Another worsening week of COVID in Wisconsin, as GOP waves the white flag

Wisconsin's COVID-19 breakout has been getting national attention in recent days, with these news pieces being an example.

"I've been a doctor for 34 years and I have never seen the amount of suffering I've seen in a short period of time," Dr. Paul Casey says of Wisconsin's Covid-19 cases. "I have never seen in my career a time where an entire ward...is filled up with patients with the same disease." pic.twitter.com/3VsflqnmEJ

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 20, 2020

NYT analysis: Northeast Wisconsin metro areas make up 8 of top 10 in U.S. for COVID-19 caseshttps://t.co/u4IEFJv8On

— FOX 9 (@FOX9) October 21, 2020

NYT data on COVID hot spots. Wisconsin, “hold my beer cheese”. pic.twitter.com/lZwsQxahHt

— jon aren (@_jonaren) October 21, 2020

And last week's numbers continued the bad trends. Saturday the 17th had zeros across the board as the Wisconsin Department of Health Services updated its servers, so I've distributed half of the increase shown on Sunday to the prior week. There also was the entry of some prior negative tests in the DHS systems, so that brought the positivity rates down a bit for October.

But even so, it's an alarming increase in deaths and new cases, and the rate of positive tests is still at a level that we weren't close to before the last month.

And so what does the GOP have to say, as things get worse in Wisconsin and the rest of the country?

Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, who heads a health panel, contends there is nothing more the government can do to fight COVID-19 https://t.co/cRw3mZeZ6Q

— Journal Sentinel (@journalsentinel) October 20, 2020

Trump, July 2016: "I alone can fix it"

Trump, Feb. 2020: "A lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat"

Meadows today: "We are not going to control the pandemic"

They're waving the white flag, just like they've done on so many issues https://t.co/m7YmNRNXe5

— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) October 25, 2020

They've stopped even trying to step up to control this disease. They don't want to do the work of governing that comes with being in power. FIRE THEM ALL.