Again? Republicans Wrong; People stayed home, jobs declined, and economy slowed BEFORE Governor's stay-at-home order!

Wisconsin Republicans love to look busy. 

So, on top of just sitting back on the sidelines, armchair quarterbacking the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re also proactively stripping public health safeguards that will keep the state’s economy depressed longer. They now want to kill off the mask mandate, instead of giving it their approval. That should make people feel safer going out again. 

Uh Oh, Consumers Stayed Home Before Stay-at-Home orders! GOP Wrong Again: The Republican rant centered on the Governor hurting businesses, whining about the mask mandate and crowd limits. They’re the pro-business heroes blaming the tyranny of the governor, who shut everything down with stay-at-home orders.

No surprise, it turns out the public is a lot smarter than our game playing do-nothing Republicans. Blowup another ridiculous manufactured “job killing” line of BS: 

Employment and activity declined before shutdowns hit…

WaPo: Critics have blamed states’ governors, typically Democrats, for job losses. But pandemic-related economic research shows the shutdowns aren’t killing jobs; the virus is. In the first outbreaks last spring, people stayed home to avoid contracting the deadly novel coronavirus, regardless of what their governor said.

Wisconsin Republicans would like you to believe this wouldn’t have happened if they were in charge, but:

When we looked at job losses by the governor’s party, rural and suburban areas of red and blue states, (they) lost jobs and began to recover at almost exactly the same pace, regardless of which party was in charge.

A former liberal radio talk host who likes to ask the “follow-up question” at Democurmudgeon.blogspot.com