Evers extended the mask mandate because COVID is jumping everywhere

In case you were wondering why our Governor decided to extend our COVID-19 emergency and mask mandate, let me give you a few pictures. The first is the outbreak in and around UW campuses, which continued to pile up record cases. Yes, Dane County's amount of new cases went down, but we still had over 1,000 more people test positive in the last week. And counties with 6 other UW campuses continued to see cases rocket to new records in September.

But it's not just college towns that were having record cases. The I-41 corridor continues to see the situation worsen, starting in the Green Bay and Appleton areas, with new cases shooting up by hundreds and reaching record levels, and going all the way down to the Milwaukee suburbs.

Even Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties had notable rises in the last week.

And on a per-capita basis, it seems to be even worse in rural Wisconsin. No Trump Country, you are not immune from COVID.

4/ That is anecdotal, of course. But the data support that: In less-densely populated rural Wisconsin, and in keep-your-polite-distance suburban Wisconsin, cases are outpacing cities and college towns--and accelerating. pic.twitter.com/usGImVK8rc

— Jay Bullock, not a #maskhole (@folkbum) September 22, 2020

No, it's not good. And it's not just on campus, and it's happening right before the weather gets colder and we stay inside more, which seems to make us more susceptible. So yes, that requires action, and given that our GOP Legislature has been content to stay on their multi-month paid vacation, it fell to Gov Evers to feel that we had to continue the mask mandate and health emergency. Can you blame Tony? Only a dope living in the AM Radio BubbleWorld would.