Another record week of COVID, as Vos and company continue to dither

It's not surprising, but there isn't much good to report on the COVID front in Wisconsin for hte last week. Again. The rate of increase in new cases may have leveled off last week. But it's still more than the week before, and still a new record, with an average exceeding 6,400 a cases a day for the last 7 days.

And sadly, the number of deaths also set another new record in the last week.

Wisconsin hit a notorious milestone yesterday, with the COVID death toll now exceeding 3,000 in the state, and over half of those have come in the last 40 days. These bad numbers are coming right before we are facing a new SuperSpreader event for those who are foolish enough to get large groups together for Thanksgiving.

But strangely, this reality doesn't seem to faze Assembly Speaker Robbin' Vos.

.@repvos says he is willing to consider building one or more additional field hospitals, but he doesn't say how its costs would be covered.

"I'm certainly open to that," he says of @WIHospitalAssn's request for more field hospitals.

— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) November 22, 2020

It seems worth noting that Dane County has nearly 3 times the people of Vos' Racine County, and yet Racine has more deaths than Dane.

Deaths from COVID-19
Overall
Racine Co 149
Dane Co 75

Last 31 days
Racine Co 44
Dane Co 29

So you'd think Robbin' would want to learn something from us, but he couldn't stir up the rubes if he admitted that, now could he?

But Robbin' has been hard at work...pointing fingers and deflecting responsibility for the last 7 months.

Asked if legislators deserved full-time pay, @repvos said, 'We've been doing an awful lot."

"Don't forget, we came in in April," he says. That's the last time legislators met, when they passed a COVID-19 bill.

They are paid about $50,000 a year by taxpayers.

— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) November 22, 2020

But maybe with the election being over, Vos can finally turn his (and the gerrymandered Legislature's) attention to the most pressing issues.

State law leaves it to voters to determined whether they meet the criteria of being indefinitely confined.

A lawsuit filed this spring by @wisgop over the issue is pending before the state Supreme Court.

— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) November 22, 2020

Yeah, why would people be confined to their residences? I mean, it's not like hundreds of people are dying every week in Wisconsin due to a pandemic or something!

Do you really wonder why things keep getting worse here?