2020-05-30: While Italy has the standard exponential growth and standard decay of a pandemic, in WI you can see the effects of the lawsuits and protests that ended the curbs weeks too early. Each event has a spike at about 3-7 days after the event and a second one 10-14 days after the event.

2020-05-13: The science of spreading disease states that the more exposure to a virus, the more likely you are to be infected. And we see that clearly in COVID-19 as those counties most likely to participate in the "Spread the infection" protests became those counties with the largest increase in per-capita infections.

While Italy has shown the standard exponential growth and natural decay, WI has had a series of spikes growing from 15 to 79 new infections per capita per million.... (click to read more)

You can see the results of the spread the infection protest in MI in the graph below. The end effect that MI has been pushed back to peak infection rate levels.  As you see in the graph - since MI is 10 days ahead of WI, one would expect a similar peak after the WI spread the infection protest on 2020-04-24

This is an update from /covid19/wi_vs_others ... We saw the uptick in the WI +6 days after the WI primary, but now there was a "spread the infection protest" in Michigan which will have an equally predictable result.

The WI and US Supreme Court sided with the Republican WI legislature and Vos' arguments to not allow the WI election to be extended. What will occur? .... (click to read more)

Second: Compare Wisconsin to Michigan