RE: Daily coronavirus rates in Wisconsin has doubled since Kenosha's fiery but mostly peaceful protests
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The drudgereport linked to an article claiming about 2800 cases at UW-Madison.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-college-football-football-archive-2fec1a5f332f0ad1508e0a94f94ec048
Upon looking for confirmation, I found the official records that state as of the 14th there were 1600 cases at UW-Madison in a two week period, and two weeks before that another 800. I will accept the 2800 figure as true, which is substantially more than the 400 students in isolation. 2800 may be more than the rest of the state universities combined. UW-Madison a few weeks ago entered a lock down, hence Dane Counties 23% decline-and certainly health records suggest the college students were spreading it into the community.
https://publichealthmdc.com/documents/2020-09-24_data_snapshot.pdf
https://publichealthmdc.com/documents/2020-09-10_data_snapshot.pdf
It doesn't change my opinions about the protests based upon other evidence, especially in reviewing UW-Madisons pandering to BLM more on twitter. But it certainly adds substantially more fuel to the argument of gross incompetence by our academic institutes-especially for UW-Madison. No confidence has also been voted on at the University of Michigan (go Wolverines), and they do top notch medical research-and a vote of no confidence at Appalachia state. I would probably but hesitantly now say that the doubling is a result of both Incompetence at the Academic institutes, as well as the protests. Hesitantly because a 4000 case increase is still only 2-4 days using the state's numbers.
https://cityofmadison.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/e22f5ba4f1f94e0bb0b9529dc82db6a3
In closing the AP article blames Trump of course [trump gets blamed for everything], and "institutional survival". For as many SJWs who complain about how unethical business practices are particularly to foreign workers, just remember what American academic institutions are doing to their customers.