Wisconsin governor calls on Trump to consider canceling rallies amid Covid surge

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Guardian

The governor of Wisconsin has called on Donald Trump to consider canceling a pair of campaign rallies scheduled for Saturday as the key swing state struggles to control a 22% surge in coronavirus cases over the last week.

The increasing infections in Wisconsin are part of a national trend of rising cases playing out as the presidential election enters the homestretch and the president, trailing badly in the polls, accelerates his search for votes.

That search will take Trump to airport hangars in the Wisconsin cities of Green Bay and La Crosse on Saturday, where thousands of people, many unlikely to be wearing masks based on recent rallies, are expected to huddle in open-air crowds to hear Trump speak. Barring a surprise victory elsewhere, Trump needs to win Wisconsin to win re-election.

The campaign plan took shape as a major new study by researchers at Cornell University suggested that Trump is the world’s largest source of misinformation about Covid-19. The findings were based on a comprehensive survey of 38m articles from traditional and online media.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wisconsin-governor-calls-on-trump-to-consider-canceling-rallies-amid-covid-surge/ar-BB19BP7C?li=BBnb7Kz

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Trump loves his Nuremberg rallies.

[jayfish]

1. Called on Him to "Consider" Cancelling Rallies?

Very powerful.

[sybylla]

14. The WisGOP and the GOP controlled state supreme court have limited his powers.

There is very little more that he can do.

[beachbumbob]

2. how about requiring a $500 million bond to cover medicaid cost of COVID exposure and spread?

sounds reasonable to me

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. Well, that's not going to happen

Ask Herman Cain.

These people would be deeply honored to die for Trump.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I keep on seeing articles where people who thought

the virus was a hoax and not at all serious. are so surprised when they or a loved one get sick, and finally realizes they were wrong and, too late, regret their stupidity. Frankly, everyone who attends a rally maskless, or goes to a crowded bar not only deserves no sympathy, but in my opinion they should not be allowed to make use of vital health services.

[StClone]

11. That is so sad

Yesterday I saw a guy enter into the exit of a one way street and everyone around them had to freeze in place as the errant driver found their way back out. It was kind of symbolic of their mentally, unobservant and endangering others, but in the end they are as likely to die from their mistakes.

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. Yeah, I felt that way about people who don't want to wear motorcycle helmets

EMTs and hospital staff should be allowed to treat people who have accidents without helmets as an automatic DNR order, and organ donor consent.

[IronLionZion]

4. There may be fewer Trump voters around election day

[drray23]

5. Consider ? What about he closes any venue that wants to host a Trump rally ?

He can send the state police and shut them down ahead of the rally. Those governors need to start acting like they mean what they say.

[Mr.Bill]

15. Cut the electrical power.

Don't threaten to do it, they will bring generators. Just do it at the moment the rally begins.

[SergeStorms]

6. Of course Trump will cancel them then.

Because if there's one thing about Donald Trump, he always puts other peoples' well being ahead of his own. Yep, that Donald Trump...... there's never a question about his humanitarian characteristics.

[progree]

7. And Wisconsin is 3rd highest state in daily new cases (7 day moving average)

In new daily cases per capita, 7 day moving average (rankings are of U.S. states, #1 is highest, i.e. worst):
#1 North Dakota
#2 South Dakota
#3 Wisconsin
#4 Utah
#5 Montana
#6 Iowa
#7 Idaho
#8 Arkansas
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

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The trend is not good for WI:
daily new cases, 7 day moving avg, 14 day change: +71%
Last 24 days (from 725 to 2336) : +222% (a 3.22 fold increase)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/wisconsin-coronavirus-cases.html

The RW Wisconsin Supreme has pretty much tied Governor Evers' hands.

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Alternative to NY Times: https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/

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Positivity: 21.1% of tests are positive, much higher than the U.S. overall ( 4.7% ) both 7 day moving averages
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/wisconsin

[StClone]

9. Thanks

Trump plans rallies in La Crosse and Green Bay:The task force has further flagged La Crosse and Green Bay, the metropolitan areas where Trump plans to gather thousands of supporters Saturday, as coronavirus “red zones,”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-wisconsin-rallies-coronavirus/2020/09/30/edf25c70-027c-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html

[Bayard]

10. Any forecasts for an early blizzard there?

Super-Spreader trump.

[bluestarone]

12. The people that attend these rally's are VERY STUPID. Can't fix stupid? I bet

COVID-19 CAN and WILL!!!!