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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon May 18, 2020, 02:56 PM May 2020

Wisconsin's economy is reopening and it's a hot coronavirus mess. Don't do what we did.

Some curious photos began rocketing around social media sites Wednesday night —pictures of people in Wisconsin once again in their natural habitat, crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in bars.

Fortunately, the patrons were not drinking shots of flaming Lysol or Cloroxtinis. Unfortunately, there were no masks to be found, and the only thing drinkers were distancing from were their inhibitions. Just hours earlier, the Wisconsin Supreme Court had struck down a statewide "safer at home" order that, among other things, closed “nonessential” businesses and ordered people to stay in their homes, with limited exceptions. The order itself was fairly standard for states across America.

For weeks, Republicans argued their lawsuit against the order was needed simply so the Legislature could have some say in the reopening plan. "We don't want a Democratic plan or a Republican plan, we want a Wisconsin plan where we're all working together,” Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke said May 7.

But now it appears their plan all along was to thwart any plan. Now that they’ve been granted a seat at the table, they have set the table on fire and thrown it out the window.

https://news.yahoo.com/wisconsins-economy-reopening-hot-coronavirus-100058065.html?_fsig=f3d53Yke05tkSCZJiMBWUw--

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