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On Wisconsin

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These numbers change so quickly - here's the best I can do to show you where the forest line is. Graphic by Fox 6 Milwaukee. I needed to write into the void today. I live in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Among the people that can remember to name this state we're generally known for either cows, cheese, football, or maybe the occasional serial killer. By longitude we're about as middle America as one can get, so we've had the blessing of the continental cushion where the wiser among us watched COVID-19 land and, predictably, explode on our country's coasts. Some of us took action before even infected coastal states took precautions. Right now we know that we're expecting the same wave of confirmed cases that everyone else is as we hunker down. We have opportunities our coastal brethren- namely, foresight - did not necessarily have. I've been tracking daily case numbers since WI case #1, and I think we were the tenth state infected. Our worst spots are...