Why does Wisconsin have the worse coronavirus outbreak in the US?

[ellenrr]

"Right now Wisconsin is battling the worst coronavirus outbreak in America. The question is why. What about Wisconsin is different from, say, the neighboring states of Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois, where the virus isn’t spreading nearly as fast?

The answer, at least in part, is politics: specifically, the brand of cavalier, it-will-go-away politics propagated by President Trump and parroted by lower-level Republicans who seem hell-bent on resisting efforts to sustain social distancing and mask wearing when the spread is still low enough to contain — and in Wisconsin’s case, who continue to resist even after infections spiral out of control. "

https://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-is-battling-americas-worst-coronavirus-outbreak-and-the-states-broken-politics-is-partially-to-blame-143650745.html

[John Ludi]

1. Having

moved to the woods of SW WI after spending all my prior life in big cities, I am not at all surprised...it's a cultural clown show out here.

[Rice4VP]

2. Trump had two big rallies in Wisconsin last month

I don’t know why the media fails to mention this.

[Rice4VP]

3. Trump had two big rallies in Wisconsin last month

I don’t know why the media fails to mention this.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Trump was in Minnesota twice in the last three weeks.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

4. cuz the reopened both the colleges and the bars.

beer drinking is a sacrament up there.
back in the day when legal age up there was 18 and it was 21 in IL the border was just nothing but carnage.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Minnesota has a statewide mask mandate, but our numbers are going up, too.

[Poiuyt]

7. Wisconsin has a mask mandate too, but it's ignored in some circles

Wearing a mask, or not, has become a political statement. There are many people here who insist on displaying their "individualism."

[GReedDiamond]

10. "Wearing a mask, or not, has become a political statement."

Exactly! Earlier I saw for the first time - and have not seen it again, yet - a PSA that showed a mask with the voice-over:

"This is a mask. It is not a political statement..." to summarize the main point of the message.

Hopefully this ad will soon saturate the tv outlets. I did not catch who/what paid for the ad.

[North Shore Chicago]

8. I was driving through Wisconsin

back in early July, saw numerous folks (maskless) outside of bars hooting it up. Remember thinking, "those dummies will pay for this."

Having a democratic governor does not offset the stubbornness of their Republican majority.

[usaf-vet]

9. You maybe right!///