Are Republicans Killing Voters in Wisconsin?

April 21, 2020 4:56pm

While the news media is breathlessly reporting that the evil Republicans in Wisconsin tried to murder people at polling locations on election day, it is important to keep their biased enthusiasm in perspective.

Health officials in Wisconsin have concluded that seven people likely contracted the COVID-19 Coronavirus on election day (six voters and one poll worker).

Gee, I wonder how many poll workers and voters typically catch the seasonal flu at a polling location. Without that comparison, this statistic is meaningless.

But here are statistics we do know and can use to calculate a meaningful perspective:

1.55 million people voted in Wisconsin. 1.13 million of those were by mail. That means 420,000 people voted in-person. So that means 99.99857% of the people who showed up to vote in-person DID NOT catch the coronavirus.

Because I always try to seek and share the full truth, it is important to point out that officials say they only have about 30 percent of the data in for Milwaukee and none for elsewhere in the state. So my back-of-the-napkin calculation of 99.99857% could really be closer to 99.99795%.

In other words, "yawn."

Full story at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/7-wisconsin-virus-cases-linked-person-voting-n1188606