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To: longnshort who wrote (1230692)	5/17/2020 5:15:11 PM
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Wisconsin's economy is reopening and it's a hot coronavirus mess. Don't do what we did. Christian Schneider, Opinion contributor , USA TODAY Opinion•May 17, 2020 Ad: 7s Scroll back up to restore default view. 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. GOP argued Dem order was confusing The governor’s unilateral “safer at home” order was set to expire May 26, at which point a gradual reopening would continue to take place. (Some business restrictions have already been lifted.) But Republicans in the state Legislature challenged the order, complaining that the governor, through his Health Secretary-designee, had both cut them out of the process and exceeded his authority. So they took Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to court, emerging victorious on Wednesday. The ruling leaves Wisconsin without any statewide rule or guidance in place for businesses, citizens, and local governments. After the decision, Republicans said they didn’t see any need for any new rules, instead turning the state into a patchwork of local COVID-19 regulations, stretched throughout nearly 2,000 counties, cities, villages, and towns. (Ironically, in the lawsuit, GOP attorneys argued that the statewide order was confusing — but without the order, every local government may now have different regulations and expiration dates.)