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1. Pics/reports from northern Wisco say highways, bars, and restaurants are jammed w/people this weekend. It& #39;s like the first 15 minutes of a slasher movie, with all the pretty people frolicking in the woods while the murderer bides his time behind a tree.
2. It& #39;s happening even though no scientist has declared it safe. The "reopening" is driven by politicians, business lobbyists, conspiracy theorists, and people who are bored. The virus is not controlled. It& #39;s as dangerous to be out this weekend as it was a month ago.
3. Yesterday& #39;s numbers indicate we& #39;re starting to see the early thin edge of the effects of people unlocking themselves after the court decision. Two weeks from now we& #39;ll start seeing the effects of this weekend. Hope I& #39;m wrong but it& #39;s going to be disastrous.
4. The whole purpose of the lockdown was to give us time to fight the virus by ramping up testing/tracing, which we did not do. Everything we did/didn& #39;t do in those 2 months was wasted. 4-6 weeks from now, when case numbers blow up, we& #39;re going to need to do it again.
5. But there& #39;s no authority in WI that can do it. Health dept and gov are neutered, and right wingers will sue any city/county that tries strong restrictions on its own. This summer, if you and I don& #39;t get sick and die, it will be entirely due to A) our own efforts and B) luck.
6. And if/when you/I get it, the blame is going to be placed on us for "not being careful." But in Wisco, the blame lies with 4 GOP justices on the SupCo, the GOP leadership in the legislature, and voters who enable them. What we were doing was working, and *they stopped it.*
7. They don& #39;t believe in the public good. They don& #39;t believe in shared community. They don& #39;t believe that they owe anything to anyone else. They think life is a zero-sum game that they can& #39;t win unless somebody else loses, but also that the losers deserve it.
8. Every plan I& #39;ve seen for reopening schools and spectator sports (for example) requires people to make sacrifices for the public good. Think they& #39;ll do it? No. School mandates masks? "I won& #39;t let my kid wear one." Social distancing at the Brewer game? "I sit where I want."
9. Without a willingness to give a simple damn about others--never mind asking them to make actual sacrifices, some of these people have to be persuaded just to *care*--this crisis is *never* going to end. We& #39;ll just keep shoveling bodies into the woodchipper. /fin
