The good news in Wisconsin's COVID-19 numbers is that the decline in new cases that we saw in the week of Thanksgiving continued for the first week of December.
But I can't say that this means the massive levels of COVID outbreak is subsiding in Wisconsin, and not just because 2 weeks is too small a sample size to make for a trend. It's also because the number of Wisconsinites being tested has also dropped to multi-week lows, so the positivity rate is back at the levels we had in mid-November.
And the spike in cases in previous weeks led to the worst week yet for COVID deaths in Wisconsin, with an average of 60 people dying a day. Over 1,900 Wisconsinites have died in the last 6 weeks from this virus, compared to the less than 1,800 that were killed in the 7 months before then.
It does seem that Wisconsin Republicans now understand that we need to honor the dead, to act to make sure the carnage stops, and that it never happens again. They made a lot of tweets along those lines today.
Oh wait, that's about something that happened 79 years ago. They still aren't saying much (if anything) about the Pearl Harbor-level of COVID casualties that is hitting our country
every day. And so it goes on.
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