The Wisconsin Department of Health is reporting that 40 people who voted in or worked the April 7 election have since tested positive for COVID-19.
Sorry your voter disenfranchisement scam didn’t work, Robin Vos.
Democracy won.
Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos [R] assured Wisconsinites that voting in person was “incredibly safe,” while clad in head-to-toe protective equipment.
Visual cognitive dissonance
I like how he had his running shoes on, as well…
Chickenshit GOP’er…
I suspect that it will continue to climb for a while.
Goddamn WI GOP.
I never understood the gown. It looks feeble and paranoid past normal prudence. It certainly did not help his messaging. And then considering his head, hair and neck are uncovered, what was the point.
@Hatmama, I expected it to be higher today, but this just brings the number into line with what was communicated over the weekend.
So with 440,000 in-person voters, only 40 cases, and no real way to prove that the infections were picked up due to polling or other.
If anything, this should be a data point that the risk factors of voting aren’t that high. Which makes sense, because indications are that more prolonged exposure to an infected person increases the chances of catching it.
So maybe the republicans did everyone a favor-- even if the experiment was conducted in a highly unethical manner-- in demonstrating that there’s not a significant risk in holding elections, even in the middle of a pandemic.
The U.S. Supreme Court and the WI Supreme Court members who voted against Governor Evers Executive Orders can no longer call themselves “supreme.” They are compromised, political, and they have blood on their hands and they themselves voted via absentee ballot. Once the courts are gone, democracy is gone.
Being a Republican, he was probably getting his jollies by going full commando under the gown, giving Little Robin some exercise.
Primary April 7th and now a spike, well who didn’t see this coming?
These cases will be the blood on the hands of the conservatives on the SC.
One death is too many when people are exercising their right to vote. We aren’t talking about sky diving.
I’ve been tracking this (just via posted case counts, nothing fancy) since the April 7th election, and I’m genuinely confused. I’ve seen several articles that report “no impact” or “low impact” in terms of an increase in infections since the election. But I check the numbers at NYT or Worldometer and I see that:
Is that not a dramatic spike in cases? Is this not attributable to the election? The data is definitely suggestive, no?
In a particularly resonant shot, Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos (R) assured Wisconsinites that voting in person was “incredibly safe,” while clad in head-to-toe protective equipment.
It shouldn’t be necessary to say who is really responsible for this, but just in case…
Whenever I see that picture of that jackass, I’m always reminded of this:
Vos can run, but he can’t hide from COVID-19.
Also I find it interesting that Robin is Vos while next door in MI Besty is DeVos?
Parallels.
40 cases, no deaths (to date), and as noted, no way to know that the infection was picked up at the polls or elsewhere, merely that the individual who later tested positive was at a polling place.
If there was a risk factor of being at the polls, we should have seen hundreds if not thousands of cases popping up, given the amount of people voting.
That we don’t see a spike like that is a good indication that there’s negligible risk for voting as an allowed activity.
This is going to create non-republican seating in restaurants, bars, theater and so on.
Once we can go to those things again.
It’s a no risk activity. There should be zero risk associated with voting. You say the cases weren’t from the election but I keep reading that they were and 40 is plenty for me.