Almost 6,500 Wisconsinites have died of #Covid-19 since it upended daily life in the state a year

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As you all know--Evers--the Dem Gov gave lots of orders for lockdowns and mask mandates--but Republicans fought him every time!!

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COVID-19 | ONE YEAR ON
A year after COVID-19 transformed life in Wisconsin, pandemic toll widespread

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David Wahlberg | Wisconsin State Journal 5 min ago



At the beginning of the second week of March last year, the state had reported only one case of COVID-19, a Dane County resident who tested positive more than a month earlier after returning from China. A second case was confirmed that Monday and a third on Tuesday. By Friday, March 13, the total was 19 cases, suggesting community spread, first suspected in the U.S. near Seattle, may have come here.

On that Wednesday, UW-Madison said it would suspend in-person classes. On Thursday, collegiate and high school basketball tournaments were halted, along with most types of pro games. The next day, Gov. Tony Evers ordered all public and private schools closed the following Wednesday for at least three weeks, with Dane County officials soon making the closure in the county immediate.

Evers the next week ordered bars and restaurants to close, banned gatherings of 10 or more people and made the school closures indefinite. Such measures were codified a week later — a few days after the state’s first COVID-19 deaths were reported — in the Democratic governor’s “safer-at-home” order shuttering nonessential businesses for a month. The move triggered challenges from Republicans, with partisan disagreements continuing over subsequent mask orders and coronavirus legislation.

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Even for Jones, an expert in disease outbreaks, the pandemic’s enormous toll and lingering presence a year later is surprising. “I really expected this to be shorter — for us to get it under control, for one hard lockdown to be pretty effective and to be done by sometime last summer,” she said...........................




https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/health-med-fit/a-year-after-covid-19-transformed-life-in-wisconsin-pandemic-toll-widespread/article_3aaeaf6c-b99c-56f6-81b3-96144039c25f.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_


Orpheum closure

In hindsight, the sign on the Orpheum Theater on State Street in Downtown Madison, pictured here on March 23, 2020, was overly optimistic. Closures of theaters, restaurants, bars and other businesses would stretch well beyond March.
STEVE APPS, STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES

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1. That's 90 people per county

Wisconsin has 73 counties. 90 people in any county is bad. Brown County (Green Bay) has about 250,000 people. Using the 0.011 rate this post claims, results in a death toll of 0.026% and a body count of 2,750 humans we have lost.

Those 2,750 voices will never be heard or will influence our lives, as they'd done before.

Stats are impartial and cold sometimes. A body count, close to home, brings the true effect CoVid actual causes. We cannot go back with some magical 'repair', take a 'potion' or pray the past into the present.

Be safe. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Those two actions will reduce your risk by leaps and bounds.