Fond du Lac Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfelt is questioning whether the Safer at Home order was necessary. Thiesfeldt says he believes the COVID-19 infection and death rate models that came out from state and federal health officials turned out to be “wildly wrong.” Thiesfeldt stops short of saying the Safer at Home order was a mistake, but says we should think twice before shutting things down again if there’s a second wave. “I’ve been saying from the beginning that yeah this is serious, we should pay attention to it, use common sense and logic, but shutting down the entire economy like this, that’s something we ought to think twice, and three and four times about in the future,” Thiesfeldt told WFDL news. Thiesfeldt says the governor’s decision to shut down the state was based on medical models that were wrong. “The governor is not necessarily a job that I would want to have and he’s trying to make decisions that are based on medical decisions that have come before him. What I’m saying is that if you’re going to make that decision you better make sure it’s the right decision and we look back now and I don’t think we can say for sure that was the right decision.” Health officials say the shutdown prevented the spread of the virus including preventing more infections and deaths.
