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Dear Reader:Let me suggest that you compare the responses of two countries - “A” and “B” - who both experienced their first cases of Covid-19 on the same day: January 20, 2020. Give them a letter grade - A thru F - based on their response to the Covid-19 pandemic.One country gets high marks for their response and is now almost back to normal. The other has already had tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths and is expecting perhaps 40,000 more. You decide which gets what mark.Here is a graph showing the (cumulative) number of deaths from Covid-19 these two countries have experienced (updated up to 5/5/20 - note that from 4/14/20 on, country “A” reports include “probable cases” and its numbers suddenly become much higher):Quite a difference, right? Country A has had over 68,934 deaths so far, whereas country B has had only 254. That’s A having 271 times as many deaths as B. But I’ll let you grade which is better.Now, we know enough about this virus that it takes about 20 days to go from infection to death (though in most cases people recover). So the explosion of deaths in country A on March 20 reflects explosion of the disease around March 1.So when do you think either country had a chance to tamp down the growth curve? Most people would say January and February. By March, the horse is already out of the barn.Besides far fewer deaths, country B:has needed less than $10 billion infusion into its economyits stock market index is almost back to its December baselineits health care system did not come near collapseis expecting 1–2% growth in GDP this yearSo what made the difference?One was testing for the virus early on, which allows you to contain it.As a respected researcher once said: “You want to know whether you have it or not. You want to know whether the people around you have it. Because you know what? Then you could stop it.” (I find it hard to argue with that)Indeed, once you have testing, you can trace cases, their contacts, their travels, isolate or quarantine as necessary, and nip the outbreak in the bud.From The Economist: “That life in [country B] has not ground to a complete halt is mostly owing to an early and aggressive response to the Covid-19 pandemic.”But testing and containment takes time, money and above all: focus.Here are how countries A and B performed. Country A’s words are well known, so I will include more quotes from leaders of County B, which are less widely known (especially their Foreign Minister’s).Please remember - A and B both started with a first case on January 20 - the same starting line.A. CONTAINMENT (stopping the virus)B: “we acted early”B: “we found it very important to diagnose people quickly and to prevent spread to the community through isolation of infected people”January 27:B: “the third confirmed case indicates that we have reached the point where we have to get rid of passive stance and actively prepare for the worsening of the situation”B: “testing is absolutely critical with a fast-traveling virus like this” (and as early as possible)A: bans Chinese citizens from entering country “A”this was the day after China banned their citizens from going abroadCovid-19 was within country “A” alreadyover the next month 40,000 non-Chinese citizens enter country “A” from ChinaFebruary 3:B begins ambitious testing program for Covid-19“Within weeks of the outbreak in Wuhan … four [B] companies had manufactured tests from the WHO (German developed) recipe and, as a result, the country quickly had a system that could assess 10,000 people a day”meanwhile, A:was not interested in using the well-established WHO testinsisted on making their own testthis test then failedA then turned down an offer by B to use their testsleader of A then offered aid to a country that was B’s enemymid-FebruaryA was testing well under 100 samples a dayB was testing up to 5,000 per dayB’s first drive-through testing center openedFebruary 28:A has done 440 tests for the corona virusB has done 53,000 testsFebruary 29:A finally approved a commercial testa senior A advisor described this lack of early testing thus: “That is a failing. Let’s admit it … why were we not able to mobilize on a broader scale?”containment measures by B included things like:mild cases and their family members underwent self-quarantine, but with surveillance (twice a day phone calls; use of smart phone apps)sometimes publishing online the location of people who tested positive (without revealing their names)since A had done almost no testing in January and February, it had essentially missed the chance to do any containment of the outbreakMarch 1 - based on 1% mortality rate, and ~20 days from infection to death:Country A:by March 20: 150 deaths from Covid-1915,000 cases must have been present by March 169 cases identified by March 1thus, <1% of infected persons identifiedthe remaining >99% could go on to infect countless othersCountry B:March 20: 100 deaths from Covid-1910,000 cases must have been present by March 13,526 cases identified by March 1 (35%)March 5: in Country B drive-thru testing widely availableB. MITIGATION (blunting the effects of the virus)both A and B took actions promoting social distancing:by February 21: B had cancelled large gatherings around the country, put their military on lock-down, ceased non-essential travel, postponed schoolMarch: A rolls out a piecemeal and confusing series of recommendations about gatherings, schools, travel, culminating in a plan to lift restrictions by April 12, then reversing course a week laterB also did other mitigation from early on, such as:right from early on, promoting everyone to wear masks outside the home, providing masks free of charge (“an essential component of [B] social distancing strategies”)meanwhile, in country “A”:the average citizen had been worried enough by the coming pandemic that by January 31, masks had been sold out on Amazon.comcountry “A” leadership actually discouraged the public wearing masks until April 3, when it reversed its position (though its leader said he would not be wearing a mask anytime soon)C. LEADERSHIP AND PLANNINGlate January, in B: “We took an all-government approach. The Prime Minister created a task force of all government ministries and, crucially, all regional and city governments, too”January 30:the WHO declares the corona virus outbreak a “Public Health Emergency”A follows with the same declaration the next dayFebruary 26: A finally convenes a more limited commission, whose leadership changes a week later, while a parallel “shadow commission” run by the son-in-law of the leader of A is also formedOn a larger level, Country B’s leaders thought:“The key to our success has been absolute transparency with the public - sharing every detail of how this virus is evolving, how it is spreading and what the government is doing about it, warts and all”“When one region ran out of hospital beds we asked other provinces to open up beds in their hospitals. When it ran out of doctors we asked doctors in other regions to help”Several other nations have approached the Covid-19 pandemic in a similar way, with results very similar to B. This now includes Germany, though it is still in the early stages of its own outbreak.What do folks in Country B think about Country A’s approach?One leader in B’s pandemic response has a daughter studying in Country A. He had this to say:“[Country A] is very late to this. And the president and the officials working on it seem to think they aren’t late. This has both national and global repercussions … [A’s leader] has spoken dismissively about testing because of his ego. As we scientist see it, he’s motivated by pride. The doctors in [Country A] all know that this sort of testing is appropriate … it’s inevitable that [Country A] become like Italy. [Country B] could have become like Italy, but we assessed the situation very quickly.”Turns out he was not far from the truth in comparing Country A to Italy, though it has since surpassed that country in number of deaths per day (updated 5/5/20 - again because after that date, country “A” data include “probable cases” and their numbers suddenly become much higher):One thing that impressed me about Country B’s attitude is their admission of failure in a previous outbreak. In 2015 another corona virus, causing a disease called MERS that carries a 30–40% death rate, broke out in Country B. In their own words: “We were hit hard by MERS because we failed to supply diagnostic kits in time.” Admitting their failure, they did the hard work of preparing much better for the next challenge. And so they did: no constant boasting, no “we’re the best,” just quiet, nose to the grindstone hard work.As Country B plans to re-open their schools in April, they are not self-congratulatory, and not over-estimating things: “This will be with us for a long time. So we all need to find a way to manage it at a status quo level” and “It doesn’t matter that my country is stabilizing and coming to grips with this … the world must overcome this together.”You the reader can decide which country - A or B - gets what kind of mark for its response to this pandemic.What I can tell you is that Country A lost 3,000 lives on September 11, 2001. Covid-19 has so far killed almost 78,000 people there.(recently, Bill Gates’ wife has graded country A’s response to the virus:Melinda Gates gives Trump administration 'D-minus' for coronavirus response)P.S.Country B was South Korea. There were a bunch of clues in the text, but not everyone noticed them.ADDENDUM A: CONTAINMENT AND MITIGATION (illustrated)1. CONTAINMENT:Containment starts with knowing who can spread the disease (25–50% of whom have no symptoms). That means testing. Without large-scale testing, you can’t contain the disease. These are the figures, up to mid-March: the time when containment could have prevented the “exponential explosion” of Covid-19.Please note: the diagram for the U.S. has a different scale (ordinate) from that for South Korea, with U.S. testing peaking at around 2,000 tests.Do you think this difference in testing could have affected the growth of the Covid-19 disease?2. MITIGATION:Google used mobile phone GPS data to observe “Mobility Change” of populations in the U.S. and around the world. The last available data is from April 30, but their graphs only go back 6 weeks, so I present two partly overlapping time frames. Compare the timing of “social distancing” in Country A with Country B:Retail & Recreation:Country A:Distancing began around March 16 …… and was continuing as of April 30 (the last date with data).Country B:Distancing began a month earlier …… and has returned to normal by the end of April.Do you think the one month lead in social distancing helped Country B?ADDENDUM B: IS POPULATION A FACTOR?It is certainly true that bigger countries have more potential entry sites for the virus, hence a proportionality to size in absolute numbers.I chose to go with raw numbers - not standardized for population - because I wanted to demonstrate - and emphasize - the pattern and speed of growth. The virus shows exponential growth whether you look at just the Seattle area, or all of Washington State, or all of the USA - or the whole world, in fact.The virus doesn’t know the population of the country it is attacking, and its exponential growth is not dependent on population size in its early stages. Population effects come into play mostly later on in what is eventually a logistical curve. Until it reaches a significant percent of the population, when herd immunity starts to affect its growth, the population size will not affect the curve.Comparing similar populations (by countries)If one remains curious about comparing similar populations, let me show some data.Four other countries have been using an approach somewhat similar to South Korea, emphasizing early testing and containment: Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and Germany. They (with South Korea) have a total population of 290.5 million, compared with the U.S. 327.2 million. Here is their graph, compared with the U.S. graph (updated 5/5/20):Deaths to date:USA: 68,934countries (total): 7,630 - 9 times lower than USAComparing similar populations (by states)Perhaps you’d like to see the data comparing South Korea to a few U.S. states (updated 4/16/20).Let’s start with the state that has had the most cases of Covid-19, and has a population (19 M) 60% smaller than South Korea’s:No - the graphs are not switched. NY has had 11,909 deaths so far, compared with South Korea’s 229, even though Korea’s population is 2.6 times larger.Let's then move on to America’s most populous state (almost 40 M) - only 23% smaller than Korea’s? Here is the comparison:The outbreak in CA started 6 weeks later than it did in South Korea, yet it is already well past Korea in deaths per day - and rising. The score so far: CA = 829 dead, South Korea 229. And that’s not even correcting for Korea’s 30% larger population.Maybe we should start with the state that was first affected by the virus. You may not find that a fair comparison, because that state has 85% fewer people than South Korea. But let’s compare anyways:Finally, a state whose numbers are near those of South Korea (though WA’s rising death rate has overtaken it). Too bad it took a state with a population 7 times smaller than Korea to find some kind of commonality.Reply

SCP-001 explained in a nutshell if you want a simpler explanation.Summary:SCP-001 is possibly a dangerous SCP. Let's see.Upon inspection, we notice there are not 1, not 2, but 28 proposals for SCP-001. The above page states that only 1 of them is true. The only true ones are the ones that pose a true danger to mankind. Here they are, summarized.Jonathan Ball's proposal (Sheaf of Papers) details a sheaf of papers that when opened, details a new SCP that will be discovered in real life later. It is safe (a machine that can clone anything can found), but unsafe at the same time. Anything can, and will, happen. A machine that can destroy the universe by activating? Possible. And in fact, a joke SCP, named SCP-001-J, already took upon this task.Dr. Gear's proposal (The Prototype) details an alien that is extremely dangerous, emitting radiation and microsingularities. It killed Dr. Hermann Keter, leading to the creation of the Keter class of SCP objects. It is an example of an early SCP file, explaining the name. In fact, it may be the first one. Once it arrived in that US base in Guatemala, it would never be the same. After the base finds out there's more out there, the Foundation is born.Dr. Clef's proposal (The Gate Guardian, the most popular) details a gigantic winged creature (implied to be Uriel, one of the archangels) guarding a gate of what is implied to be the Garden of Eden. It holds a sword that can destroy anything within a 1-km radius. It is extremely powerful (judging by an experiment involving the nuclear submarine Nautilus, which is suspiciously dated December 26, 2004, at the time of the Indian Ocean tsunami) and has a terrifying ending. He tells that when SCP-001 ever moves, it signals the Rapture, and the end of the world (written as a Patmos XK-class scenario) and even details a transmission from the future about this exact event happening. It issues a command to anyone who sees it, the most important being "Prepare", which was spoken to the Founder, prompting him to create the precursor to the SCP Foundation.QNTM's proposal (The Lock) details a gemstone with white markings on it. It is surrounded by a gold ring and emits some radiation, in the microwave scale. In 2003, Foundation staff noticed that the markings closely mirror the cosmic microwave background, implying that the lock may be a replica, if not an exact clone, of the observable universe. It is currently indestructible, and multiple attempts to open the lock at the bottom have failed. It was discovered in a Sumerian temple and it is implied there is a demon inside.Bright's proposal (The Factory) details The Anderson Factory, an organization that appears to have made multiple SCP objects. Not to be confused with the GoI named The Factory, working conditions were horrible, but that was a simple price for the fact that the Factory could produce nearly anything. However, when anomalous objects began leaking out, numerous people had to stop it, and in 1911, raided the Factory, driving out the current inhabitants (Faeries, which are referenced in SCP-4000 "Taboo") and shutting it down. Numerous people were selfish enough to leave with their own anomalous objects, becoming splinter groups of the Foundation (for instance, the Chaos Insurgency), and the rest who remained became the SCP Foundation.Dr. Mann's proposal (The Spiral Path) details a spiral gravel path which continuously goes uphill if travelled in a counter clockwise direction. If travelled in a clockwise direction, the path becomes normal. Seems normal, right? Wrong. New members of the Overseer Council are advised to view Document 001-O5, which details how early members of the Foundation created anomalous objects, which turned into actual SCPs (the first was SCP-005, a key which can open any lock), however, the narrator gets terrified when he recounts the story of SCPs he didn't create and just appeared in storage one day.Dr. Mackenzie's proposal (The Legacy) details 2 objects, which are a device and a key, and some notes. In the previous universe, mankind meddled around, corrupting the fabric of the universe. To reset it, a machine was created by a man (calling himself the Administrator, seems familiar, right?) to reset the universe. However, the man died, and the Foundation was created to continue his work. However, the problem is, the machine hasn't been found yet, and the corruption in our universe is increasing, causing the entry of numerous SCPs into our universe.S. Andrew Swann's proposal (The Database) seems to be a jumbled mess. However, when given some context, SCP-001 becomes clear. SCP-001… you see… is us. Every writer on the SCP website is SCP-001, able to change the entire narrative at their own desire. But the people inside hate this, and have prepared a last resort. To do this, they have placed memetic agents as booby traps in the website, causing us to die. However, they state that there is no way to contain SCP-001 without causing a ZK-class scenario (reality ending scenario), or basically to us, just wiping out all traces of their existence by deleting the SCP website. But wait. From our point of view, we have near-universal access to all SCP files. No memetic agent would work against us (have you ever died while scrolling down the main SCP-001 page due to the Berryman-Langford agent? No!) because to them, we are gods. Nothing can stop us.Scantron's proposal (The Foundation) details the entire SCP Foundation, but from the perspective of an organization called the Unusual Incidents Unit which is controlled by the FBI. Basically, in this proposal, the SCP Foundation itself is SCP-001. It details a high school which is slowly converted into an SCP facility over time. Some agents they sent in are incorporated into the SCP facility.Djoric's/Dmatrix's proposal (Thirty Six) details what used to be 36 people (some have died). These 36 people were destined to save the world. The death of a member results in catastrophic events throughout the world. Individually, they can nullify or severely decrease any SCP's capabilities. When they come together, their capabilities can "bring quiet days", or in other words, wipe out all anomalous entities in existence.Roget's proposal (Keter Duty) details a facility that houses all Keter objects. These objects are contained in the facility by pitting them against their counterparts. For instance, SCP-682 (which you might know as the TOTALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE REPTILE that hates literally everything) is contained in the facility along with SCP-296. What is 296 exactly? Formerly, it was an SCP facility holding 55 SCPs (take note of this) when a containment breach occurred, causing the nuclear warheads to be detonated. Within the wreckage, a stone tunnel was spotted. Inside the tunnel is an ampitheater (think of the Roman Colosseum) and within it are 56 figures seemingly constructed out of ice (one more than the SCPs before!) So what is the 56th figure? It calls itself Judgement, and it "judges" all those who enter. Those it deems "guilty" will be killed by one of the SCPs that used to be on the site. The thing here is that 296 doesn't "judge" us the same way that we judge other humans. In SCP-001, 296 takes on the appearance of multiple personnel who have lost their lives fighting SCP-682. 296's anomalous properties denies 682 the ability to kill them, and 682 transitions between trying to kill them or cowering in the middle. Judgement said that 682 is denied here the ability to kill or to die. Another example is SCP-871 (aka the replicating cakes that should be eaten in 24 hours to avoid it duplicating), contained along with SCP-1295, a group of 4 old men who preside over a diner, and emit anomalous properties if they are removed from it within a certain time. In the facility, 1295 is served 871 by a waitress. They usually complain about the lackluster menu items, but praise the variety of 871. Another infamous one is SCP-579 and SCP-055, of which the description says "Can't fit round pegs in square holes". It is a mystery which one is referring to which, considering the description of 579 is expunged, and 055 cannot be described except in terms of what it is not. Releasing all the Keters would cause a giant containment breach and a K-class scenario.Ouroboros — The Cycle Proposal is a combination of all of djkaktus's proposals (The Children/The Broken God/Atonement/The Way It Ends) and was created January 5, 2019. Here is a summary of each.djkaktus' 1st proposal (The Children) details 9 children who have extraordinary capabilities (including the ability to simply will an object out of existence by thinking of it) who were buried under a church in San Marco, Mexico. They were used to fight a Saharan kingdom called Abaddon, but the end reveals the O5 who planned this was insane and related to the Chaos Insurgency. The children are still alive.TwistedGears and djkaktus' proposal (The Broken God) is about an entity known as the Broken God, created in Mexico during WW2. What is the Broken God? To know that is to know the lore of the Church of the Broken God. They believe that their deity (a god named Mekhane, the god of machines and intelligence) broke itself apart during a fight with Yaldabaoth (the god of animalistic and wild behavior) to save humanity. Later, the CBG tried to reconstruct Mekhane, believing that this will bring about the end of the world. However, due to the core of the machine (SCP-882) being provided by The Factory, "it" malfunctioned, and began to destroy and warp the landscape of Baja California. In 1943, the machine was activated, causing an "Apotheosis Event" that formed the Gulf of California. However, SCP-2399 (a destroyer machine originally supposed to land on Earth, but instead landed in Jupiter because it was destroyed) swooped down from the sky and destroyed the Broken God.djkaktus' 2nd (independent) proposal (Atonement) details an anomalous humanoid black hole, originally Calvin Desmet, who was injured in an accident in 1982. He is instructed by the Foundation to destroy all anomalous objects. But the O5 Council uses SCPs to become immortal, causing them to run into some problems. His reasoning is flawed, believing he must kill all alternate universes so no SCPs go into our own. He tries to kill the O5.djkaktus' 3rd proposal (The Way it Ends) details why the Chaos Insurgency hates the O5 council, and their successful murder of each of the O5s. Finally, they put in some members of their own. And the Chaos Insurgency reforms once more.The Ouroboros proposal substories are meant to connect and build up on the previous ones, and create a cycle.Kate McTiriss' proposal details a story of Mary Nakayama, a researcher who unwittingly becomes God (a benevolent one) via an SCP article which originally detailed a song that would be first in every record it encounters. That SCP article turned out to make everything written in it come true, and after Mary discovered this during an April Fools' joke edit, she made herself into a God to help the Foundation.Kalinin's proposal is extremely complicated. It is the tale of an entity occupying a planet with 9 moons, which seeks to return humanity to 1 of the moons (named The Planet of the Hands, and where we originally came from), where it can torture us for eternity, so that a utopian society can occur on the planet. It can manipulate all anomalous entities, and you know what that means. Hijinks ensues. Although a minor victory in the end does occur, humanity has fled from Earth, accepting an eternity of torture. Throughout the story, it is implied that, once again, we are SCP-001.Dr. Wrong's proposal details an Occult War in the previous reality. SCP-001 was an attempt to create a CK-class restructuring scenario in 1900. Their reason was the Occult War, specifically the 5th Occult War. Multiple stuff went wrong during this war (including SCP-140 being edited too much, causing the Daevites from SCP-140 to conquer Asia, Sarkic (enemy of Church of the Broken God) involvement in the American Civil War) leading to the end of the world. Now, there were these 13 organizations that combined to form the Foundation. The organizations came from: Britain, France, the Russian Empire, the German Empire, the USA, Spain, Japan, China, and 5 more countries. 13 people were chosen to be members of the O5 council. The Forbidden City Convention which finalized and created the modern SCP Foundation was signed September 7, 1901, coinciding with the end of the Boxer Rebellion in our timeline. This retconned the Boxer Rebellion and the Taiping Rebellion into existence. Basically, an origin story of the Foundation. And they're just planning to erase it and cover it up as another SCP.TL;DR: Stuff messed up because SCPs were prevalent through history, so we pressed a reset button.S.D. Locke's proposal details an incident that happened to the Sun causing every organism to melt into wax and form a gelatin-like substance, which can merge with each other, and occasionally retain part of their original shape. It follows the tale of Logan Igotta, and her companion Ari, as they succumb to the disaster. It is special for showing the end of the Foundation, not the beginning, and it is implied at the end that you are not alone, and the slime noticed you, and you will become one of the jello slime.Spikebrennan's proposal details Facility T, a location in the Sinai peninsula which prevents any type of human death in the area. It was created after the events detailed in Exodus 4:24–26, in which God attempted to kill Moses after he failed to circumsize his son. The Foundation has made a contract with God to limit their time in Facility T in exchange for not getting killed when exiting.WJS's proposal details a document that defines what is normal, and what is not. Everything outside is anomalous. A thing at the end of the page claims to bring you to SCP-001, but it actually leads to a document by O5–5 explaining that the SCP Foundation is not trying to abuse anomalous objects, but that they're more or less protecting them.Billith's proposal details how another Foundation implanted life on Earth, classifying Earth as SCP-001, after discovering its life-holding property. And we (our Foundation) found out about them.Tanhony's proposal details an 84-year old man who has been merged with the concept of death, and as such, if he is modified, how everyone will die will be modified as well. The Foundation modified him in this way so that none of the O5 council will die. If he ever dies, he will be replaced with a young D-class, and the old man will be killed to complete transfer of his anomalous properties. The Ethics Committee gets suspicious that the O5 Council is using him for their own purposes, and a massive skirmish occurs. In the process SCP-001, the entire O5 council, Administrator, and Ethics Committee are killed. Due to this the Administrator tried to make sure there were 12 candidates for the missing positions: 11 O5 members, and 1 Administrator.Lily's proposal details a phenomenon that will happen 24 hours before the end of all life on Earth. Since the event has not happened yet, information was found through various documents. The phenomenon will result in flowers blooming on 90% of the Earth's land surface. The weather will clear, and the temperature will be ambient and comfortable. Weapon usage will dramatically decrease before the end of the world occurs.Tufto's proposal details an entity known as the Scarlet King, which has been attempting to enter our reality for multiple years. Yep. The exact same Scarlet King as SCP-2317's pre-Iteration 6 files. It is a commentary on antiquity's hatred for our modern age. It is demonstrated even further by saying that since the SCP Foundation deals with organizing stuff, it is the definition of modernity, and the Scarlet King hates them because of that. Or rather, it actually is the definition of that hatred.Note: The Scarlet King could be SCP-2317, or not. It is because the redacted name of the "Destroyer of Worlds" is 1 letter longer than Scarlet King.Jim North's proposal details a Safe humanoid SCP toy maker named Dr. Wondertainment who made several SCPs. These include SCP-445 (paper that will become whatever it is folded into), SCP-1553 (a paint set that can paint and erase shadows), SCP-3147 (a lollipop that can switch your voice), and more. His origin story was about him finding out about The Factory, stealing some documents, and him getting to work. No wait! Now, he's "Dr. Reginald Philbert Lionel Archibald Westinghouse Wondertainment III", a Euclid level man who has been around for eternity, and can make anomalous games that are classified as SCPs. No, wait. There's something even deeper. Dr. Wondertainment is a corporate entity, and is a Keter! That's not it. There must be something else. The current Dr. Wondertainment is "Dr. Isabel Helga Anastasia Parvati Wondertainment V", the daughter of the original Dr. Wondertainment, a Thaumiel object. Wait. That's not all. Here comes the truth.Did you think that the little trinkets with my name on them were the full extent of my creations? Did you truly think of me as such a small, petty creature? I am no mere toysmith, Foundation, no mere trickster. I am a god. The god of chaos, the harbinger of madness, the progenitor of insanity, and the bane of all who would try to shackle the universe in their cloying chains of order. I have tugged at the edges of that order and unraveled it, creating and unleashing the very anomalies you seek to contain, all to show you how wonderful and amazing and frightening and deadly the universe can be.You want examples of my creations? Then look upon your collected list of anomalies, Foundation. Look upon those of the Unusual Incidents Unit, the Office for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts, the Global Occult Coalition, and so many others. I made them. I made them all, from the most harmless Safe to the most nightmarish Keter, and they are mine!Are We Cool Yet? The Circus of the Disquieting? Marshall, Carter & Dark? The Church of the Broken God, Anderson Robotics, the Fifthist Church, and so many more? My institutions! Mine! I founded all of them, created all of their artifacts! Their leaders?! Their GODS?! When you fight against the likes of FULLER and ION and MEKHANE and THE SCARLET BLOODY KING, you were really fighting against ME! I AM ALL OF THEM, I AM EVERYTHING YOU FEAR AND DON'T UNDERSTAND! I AM THE GOD OF PURE CHAOS, AND YOU WILL BE DRIVEN BEFORE MY POWER, YOU WILL CRUMBLE AND DECAY INTO NOTHINGNESS, YOU WILL BOW BEFORE ME YOUWRETCHEDPATHETICDr. Wondertainment is an Apollyon class god. He created every SCP. Every GoI. The Foundation, AWCY, CBG, M,C&D, Chaos Insurgency, GOC, all of them.Wait. He's actually a Neutralized SCP. He is all of what he described earlier, and at the same time none of them. He doesn't know who he is anymore, but invites the Foundation to try and understand all of his creations.After being exhausted from typing and copying that massive blockI begin typing.I wonder, "Why am I typing this in a narrative form?"Why am I typing out how I typed out this story?No wait. I suddenly remember what is coming next. I type,"I.H. Pickman's proposal details an SCP-001 which can only be written and documented in a narrative form. Therefore most of the page is basically just a story."I sigh, relieved that I have got it over with.Now to the next one.But wait! There's more!Behind all that storytelling, this proposal is basically the exact same as S. Andrew Swann's Proposal (see above)Next!The Great Hippo's proposal (ft. Peppersghost) details a text AI who initially shows pretty good on how to contain some SCPs. However as the Foundation relies on it more, the Ethics Committee decide to stop the machine once and for all. However, the machine slowly begins to show hatred toward the Ethics Comittee, and begins neutralizing anything and everything, even the O5 council. At the end it is unknown if it actually neutralized everything or hacked the database to make it look like it did so.Weizhong's/The Deadly Moose's/Drewbear's/Dexanote's proposal details Project Palisade, their attempt to stop The Worm, an entity that can destroy multiple realities. The Foundation keeps it out by placing it in other realities which they create themselves.Finally… another of my favorites…████ ███'s proposal details a space expedition to another galaxy, revealing that every single galaxy outside of the observable universe is just a clone of the Milky Way, but the materials that make them up get stranger as we go. At the end it is implied that "The Truth" is related to SCP-184.Alright, that was a lot of information. Now to eliminate which ones are least terrifying.Dr. Gear's (it was easily contained), QNTM's (we haven't broken the lock yet) and…You know, it'd be easier if we detailed the most terrifying and how they could affect humanity.Sheaf of Papers - I mentioned the reason why. Anything could happen.Gate Guardian - If it ever moves a Patmos XK-class scenario will occur.Spiral Path - The SCPs they didn't create may be dangerous. Same concept as Sheaf of Papers.Thirty Six - What if they all die?The Database - This is dangerous, not to us, but to the people in the SCP universe, since we could just delete the entire SCP website.When Day Breaks - 6.8 billion people have died instantly due to the event.The Children - Yes, they're alive, so they can destroy the world at any time.Dead Men - He can change death itself.Atonement - He can literally be anywhere, and can kill anything.Project Palisade - The Worm can destroy anything.So, what here is the most terrifying?I think either Database, Sheaf, Gate Guardian, or When Day Breaks fit the record.So, anyone of these.How about a non-001 SCP?Some people say SCP-231–7 is dangerous because if it ever gives birth then the world will end.Then again, in 1 story the fear was neutralized when she gave birth to… unexpectedly…SCP-999. And it is said that SCP-999 is weak right now, but it will grow strong enough to end the King's reign of terror with love and kindness.However, there are multiple SCPs that could be far more dangerous.The most dangerous threat level is Black, so you better look for that one there. One example is SCP-3480.Version 2.0After reading through more of these SCP scenarios, and finding suggestions from other people, I have an updated list of contenders for the most dangerous SCP.SCP-001RIP THE OLD 001 KILL AGENTReason: There are multiple proposals for SCP-001, so let's run through each one and see why they are extremely dangerous to humanity. This is updated with djkaktus's 4th (non-joke 001) proposal.Jonathan Ball's proposal - Sheaf of PapersSummary: Sheaf of Papers is about a pile of papers. The topic seems tame at first, however when you realize what it does, it could be the worst thing the Foundation has ever discovered in its entire history. The pile of papers contains pages for every known SCP in history, starting from SCP-002 (skipping 001, since it itself is SCP-001) all the way up until the most recent SCP to be written, SCP-4999 (aka Death itself). Every single SCP, even 682, 2317, and 343.Reason: Even though it has brought us 999, and other SCPs which have helped the Foundation, it has also brought us objects that have hindered their progress, or could pose a threat to the universe. Imagine if one day, an extremely terrible event that would destroy the Foundation appeared as an SCP in the pile of papers.Dr. Gears' proposal - The PrototypeSummary: Dr. Gears' proposal is about an alien which can create microsingularities that emit large amounts of radiation. First discovered in a military base in Guatemala, it was extremely dangerous and reported as a "demon" by the locals. Due to the appearance of the page, this could be one of the earliest objects contained by the Foundation. Dr. Hermann Keter (the man who also designed SCP-001's containment) was killed during the incident, possibly granting a name to the unpredictable and dangerous uncontainable objects belonging to the class named Keter. And it is implied that the base had to cope with more and more being found, becoming the SCP Foundation.Reason: Due to the capabilities it has, I think that this proposal for SCP-001 is not that dangerous.Dr. Clef's proposal - The Gate GuardianSummary: Dr. Clef's proposal talks about a mysterious gigantic winged creature found at the intersection of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq. It has a weapon that spectographic analysis shows is hotter than the Sun. It can also give people who approach it a directive that they should obey, the most common being "Forget". The most infamous instance of this incident occurring is to a man, who was ordered to "Prepare". The man went on to found the precursor to what is now the SCP Foundation. Furthermore, it appears to be guarding a gate to a garden of sorts, which contains an apple tree and a tree containing a fruit unknown on Earth. Due to the various Biblical references littered around the article, it is reasonable to assume that this creature (which looks like an angel from the picture), is the angel sent by God to guard the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3:24, after Adam and Eve were banished."After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life."Even worse, the addendums fully reveal the strength of the being.Reason: SCP-001 is, in this proposal, revealed to be the most dangerous being in the world, due to the addendums. Anything within 1 km of the being is obliterated completely. Far worse than that is Incident E, a test involving a nuclear warhead being fired at 001. Oddly enough, the event is said to have taken place on December 26, 2004.The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra and a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw, reaching a Mercalli intensity up to IX in certain areas. It was an undersea megathrust earthquake caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate.A series of large tsunamis up to 30 metres (100 ft) high were created by the earthquake that became known collectively as the Boxing Day tsunamis. These tsunamis flooded communities along the coasts of the Indian Ocean and killed an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries; the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh reported the largest number of victims. The earthquake was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history and the deadliest of the 21st century. Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.The earthquake was the third largest ever recorded and had the longest duration of faulting ever observed; between eight and ten minutes. It caused the planet to vibrate as much as 1 centimetre (0.4 inches), and it remotely triggered earthquakes as far away as Alaska. Its epicentre was between Simeulue and mainland Sumatra. The plight of the affected people and countries prompted a worldwide humanitarian response, with donations totaling more than US$14 billion. The event is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake.Finally, the last addendum reveals a glimpse of what is earlier dubbed "a PATMOS XK-class end-of-the-world scenario" via a message from Site 0 (the site monitoring SCP-001) which says this:SCP-001 has left its location. The Gate is Open. They are riding forth.Oh G_d, it's so beautiful…thelordreigneththelordhasreignedthelordshallreignforeverthelordreigneththelordhasreignedthelordshallreignforeverthelordreigneththelordhasreignedthelordshallreignforeverthelordheisgodthelordheisgodthelordheisgodthelordheisgodthelordheisgodthelordheisgodthelordheisgodthelordheisgodHEAROISRAELTHELORDOURGODTHELORDISONEIf you aren't aware, SCP-001 is not supposed to move from its spot.It is followed forth with a message confirming the XK-class scenario by saying that, "Because of this event's confluence with the recent breach of SCP-995, the opening of SCP-616, and the activation of SCP-098, the Foundation is required to immediately begin preparations for an XK-class end-of-the-world scenario. SCP-076 and SCP-073 are to be secured immediately. All personnel are to unlock and decode Emergency Order Patmos-Omega, and follow all orders within. Site 19 is to be secured, and all nonessential SCPs and personnel terminated and/or destroyed."A vantablack sphere, the closest to the classic SCP-995 I can get.The SCP-995 being referred to is not the current fungus, it is what is referred to as an "Infinite Devil Machine" and can be found on the SCP Foundation Classic website (not to be confused with SCP-1995, which has the same name but no relation). It has been described as a black mass similar to a black hole, it is extremely evil, seeing as holy water taken from it is black, and it should be stored in a container of lead, and tons of holy water, and both the container and the holy water should be blessed by a clergyman above the rank of archbishop.Still frame from footage of exploration of SCP-616.SCP-616 (on the current site) is basically a emergency door to hell inside a Boeing plane, which opens every 30 days. The Foundation has timed it so the door opens mid-flight. If it opens on the ground, it causes something extremely horrible. SCP-616 on the classic site is just a door to hell.The closest to SCP-098 classic I can get.SCP-098 (not those surgical crabs, and once again is on the classic website) is a cave which contains a door to hell. It is heavily redacted, so I couldn't understand what the document was about.SCP-073 and 076–2 are of course, Cain and Abel (the latter is referred to as Able). However over a few millenia, their roles switched, and Cain is the tamer of the two and Able is the more dangerous, killing anybody in his path.Speaking of Cain and Able, the latter refused to approach 001, and the former's symbol on his forehead became [REDACTED] causing the Administrator to declare no more tests on 001 are to be performed.The message begins degrading into nonsense after repeating 3 times."Repeat, because of this event's confluence with the recent breach of SCP-995, the opening of SCP-616, and the aktivation of SCP-098, the Foundation is rekwired to immediatelebegin preprrations ffr an XK-class end-of-theworldsenario. SCP-076 and SCP-073 @re to be secured immediately Cain and Abel my two sons, I amcoming all personnel are to unlock and decode behold, I stand at the gate and knock and if anyanayansdfysffollowaall alla khaf3242!$$@andisawanewheavenandanewearthandthefruitofofof^&@#$@#@#$@#$█████████████████████████████████████ [SIGNAL LOST]"Revelation 3:20"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."Revelation 21:1"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."QNTM's proposal - The LockSummary: SCP-001 is an onyx gemstone with a mysterious white pattern on it, revealed later on to be exactly similar to the cosmic microwave background radiation of our own Universe, as mapped by WMAP in 2003. It has a lock on one end. It is invulnerable. For some unknown reason, the Foundation is trying to open the lock, to release the entity locked inside, named Apakht. It was discovered in a Sumerian temple.Reason: If SCP-001 is indeed the Universe, then it has massive implications for our own Universe. After all, the order of the object could be recursive, and someone else could be trying to crack our universe.Bright's Proposal - The FactoryA factory. Not The Factory, just a factory.Summary: This proposal, an O5's tale, tells the story of the Anderson Factory, a company notable for "creating" the first SCP objects, not to be confused with The Factory, a GoI. A famous SCP created by the Factory (not 001) is SCP-248, a handful of stickers with the words "110%" imprinted on them, that can improve any machine's function, seemingly by 110%. This goes even further by saying that ALL SCP objects were created by The Anderson Factory. The Factory was originally a normal factory, but things got worse when living conditions became terrible. O5–1 led a rebellion against The Factory's founder, leading to its destruction, and replacement by the SCP Foundation.Reason: For a similar reason to Sheaf of Papers, The Factory is also dangerous.Dr. Mann's proposal - The Spiral PathSummary: Dr. Mann's proposal is aboutKalinin's proposal - Past and FutureSummary: Since this is a very, and I mean very long proposal for SCP-001, I will try to sum it up, with some help from the SCP Declassified subreddit.SCP-001 is a cosmic entity that has been warded off by SCP-2798, which is lots of "soul juice" pumped into the mantle specifically to ward off SCP-001.SCP-2798's range (in purple)SCP-001 (later revealed to be a planet with 9 moons) wants humanity to return to "The Planet of the Hands", one of its moons where it came from.In November 2016, SCP-2798 broke down. This caused SCP-001 to arrive, in an event known as An important note here, SCP-001 can manipulate all other SCPs. This results in some humorous and terrifying results.SCP-063, previously "the World's Best Tothbrush [sic]", took on a human form, now dubbing itself "the World's Best Dantist [sic]".Still frame of video footage of SCP-087 during Exploration I.SCP-087, previously within the campus of an unknown university, relocated to the Pentagon, and SCP-087–1 can now open the door of its own containment.SCP-106, in the middle of emerging from a wall.SCP-106, previously unable to speak, has shown greater intelligence and can now speak to research staff.SCP-167, previously a 10-cubic meter cube made of a white polymer, which had a seemingly infinite maze in it, stayed the same, but with some major changes. 11% of observed doors in SCP-167 led to other Foundation facilities, and 7% led to Russia's Запретный Прогресс (Forbidden Progress) space station. 17% led to rooms containing machines that harvested brain tissue.SCP-222, previously a tunnel complex in Italy that contained a stone coffin which would clone people who laid in it, retained its function, but instead of cloning you, it cloned your mother.SCP-294.SCP-294, previously a coffee machine that dispensed any liquid, had its abilities limited, so that it could only dispense liquids produced by the Coca-Cola Company, no matter the keyboard input. Inputting non-CocaCola terms, however, resulted in the stock price of the Coca-Cola Company changing.SCP-332, previously the Class of 1976 Kirk Lonwood High School marching band, which teleported to major locations and prompted all humans who heard its music to join in, became limited to locations associated with marching band field trips.SCP-383, previously a strain of influenza that caused its host to vomit items that it needed, mutated, so that its hosts now vomited illicit items.A specimen of Armadillidium vulgare (the common pill bug), which appears similar to SCP-400SCP-400, formerly an organism similar to the common pill bug (above), which manipulated babies to feed on breastmilk, changed so that it now manipulated people 17–18 years of age, so it could still feed on breastmilk.I myself, SCP-426, formerly a toaster that couldn't be described in the 3rd person, have changed, causing people to turn into a toaster as well. In any case, I'm not the toaster anymore, you are.And lots more. Basically, SCP-001 is messing with the world. Why does it want us back, though? Well, the answer is simple: It wants to torture us, for its own benefit. In this case, a utopian society exists on SCP-001, which is sustained by our torture.We escaped, and 001 manipulated us so we thought we came from Earth. We will come back by our own will.The other moons were disabled, to prevent this from happening again. Due to SCP-001's arrival on Earth, humanity's illusion that nothing anomalous has ever occurred has been broken, and millions of people have fled back to the Planet of the Hands. SCP-001 has succeeded.Reason: It has effect on most, if not ALL anomalous entities in the Universe, allowing it control over nearly every aspect of the Universe. SCP-001 is therefore a nigh-omnipotent being. Imagine what such a being can do.

There’s a danger in correlating race and political affiliation and making predictions based on that alone. There’s a great deal more to voters, particularly in a complex state like Wisconsin.Wisconsin is an interesting case study in the interplay between socioeconomics, geographical identity, and political science. I highly suggest Dr. Katherine Cramer’s findings in The Politics of Resentment as an outstanding review of what has happened in Wisconsin in the past decade or so.[1][1][1][1]Wisconsin is still quite purple. The state has been split nearly 50–50 in major elections for more than half a century. But there are some interesting shifts happening right now.Wisconsin has a shrinking rural population and growing urban and suburban population.[2][2][2][2][3][3][3][3][4][4][4][4]Population Growth 2010–2017[5][5][5][5], with lighter blue indicating population gain and darker blue indicating population loss.Overall, the state has grown about .4% since the 2010 census data, which, while the largest increase in recent state history, seems increasingly due to people just not leaving less than people moving in. In many rural counties, death rates have exceeded birth rates as much as 2:1, and have experienced estimated net losses of 2–4%.That is pushing the state to become a much different sort of purple than it was even thirty years ago, where there were competitive counties and districts all over the state.[6][6][6][6] Today, the state is increasingly polarized between the urban and rural areas of the state, but the population is increasingly concentrated in urban areas, particularly Dane County, where Madison is located, and Eau Claire County, where Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls is located. Milwaukee has also seen modest growth, as has the Milwaukee suburbs.[7][7][7][7] The state saw a massive population outflow in 2007–2010, and has slowly recovered since, especially among young professionals in their 30’s who left the state for college and graduate studies and are now returning.[8][8][8][8]Progressivism of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s started in rural America, particularly the rural Midwest and sparsely populated West. It was the highly industrialized states on the East Coast that wielded much of the conservative pushback against it. That has now flipped straight backwards.Rural areas of Wisconsin have been historically Republican, but also historically a rather progressive Republican wing of the party.[9][9][9][9] Ripon, Wisconsin, was the birthplace of the Republican Party, founded by abolitionist former Whigs after that party collapsed following the takeover by the Cotton wing in the late 1840’s.[10][10][10][10] The Conscience wing of the Whigs formed the core of the new Republican Party.[11][11][11][11]By today’s measures, this was a highly liberal/progressive movement. By the 1870’s and 1880’s, the Republicans had also gained a heavily pro-business contingent from the East Coast, which became increasingly conservative and had a laissez faire attitude towards government regulation in the marketplace.[12][12][12][12]But it was Western and Midwestern Republicans that consistently pushed for more progressive policies. The progressive wing of Republican Party was generally quite pro-agriculture, and found a lot of support from the Grange, for example, which was a progressive movement of farmers who were in part angered by unfair railroad practices.[13][13][13][13]A contemporary and sometimes more progressive adversary of the more moderate Teddy Roosevelt was Wisconsin Governor “Fighting” Bob LaFollette, who was instrumental in instituting progressive reforms in Wisconsin such as the 17th Amendment (direct election of Senators,) the recall election, and the expansion of the University of Wisconsin System with the “Wisconsin Idea.”[14][14][14][14] [15][15][15][15]Wisconsin also generally rejected the New Deal progressivism of the Democrats.Republican progressives in Wisconsin tended to be more focused on the rural areas, using government to bust monopolies and trusts and anti-competitive business practices, conserve natural resources, and focus on state-led reforms such as the ballot initiative, the recall, and the referendum that gave more power directly to the people to override their government when legislators or executives would not enact reform policies.[16][16][16][16]In contrast, Democratic progressives were focused on the industrialized and unionized urban areas of the state, and focused on policy initiatives involving a greater role in government providing jobs, more directly regulating the relationship between labor and capital, and pushing power to legislatures and executives and away from the people. Democratic progressives tended to focus on expanding the role of especially the Federal government in national policy, which Republicans generally opposed.[17][17][17][17] Democratic progressives, led by William Jennings Bryan, tended more towards populism than the more measured reform-minded Republican progressives.Teddy Roosevelt himself also led a split in the Republican Party and took much of the progressive Republicans with him in a fight that ultimately cost the Republicans the 1912 election, for a short-lived third Progressive “Bull Moose” Party. This Progressive Party continued until the failed 1924 presidential run of Bob LaFollette who only carried the state of Wisconsin. The party essentially vanished outside of Wisconsin after that, with some short-lived revival attempts in the 1940’s that were denounced as being too communistic.[18][18][18][18]After the Roosevelt split, the Republican Party’s pro-business contingent regained control of the party and focused on undoing much of the regulatory reform framework put in place from 1902–1920, directly leading to the collapse of the stock market and economy and causing the Great Depression.[19][19][19][19]Eventually, changing economics eventually pushed the remaining rural progressives out of the Republican Party as farms became increasingly smaller and more industrialized, and urban areas began to see a rise in population.Also understand that it was only relatively recently in modern political history that the two major parties have become so ideologically pure. For a long time, there were liberal Republicans and conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Eisenhower, as a relative centrist, could easily have been in either party, and there was actually a question as to whether he’d run as a Republican or Democrat at the time.Finally, the final brick in the wall was the Democratic Party adoption of civil rights as a central plank of the platform. Lyndon Johnson famously remarked that upon signing the Civil Rights Act that he’d handed the South to the Republican Party for at least a generation, and he proved to be right. Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” courted disaffected conservative southern “Dixiecrats” who wanted to continue segregation and Jim Crow. Despite attempts by conservatives such as William F. Buckley, Jr. to prevent this, the Republican Party would continue to incorporate nativists, racists, and other fringe extremists through the last quarter of the 20th century and into the 21st.And that brings us to today.Today, the rural areas of Wisconsin have been shrinking dramatically, and the urban areas of the state have grown significantly.[20][20][20][20] And, increasingly, the urban areas of the state and their immediate suburbs have been becoming more Democratic-leaning, while rural areas have been skewing more and more Republican.Go next door to Minnesota, and you’ll see the same shifts, but wedded to the Democratic Party instead; there, it’s the DFL, Democratic Farmer-Labor. Same generally progressive attitude, different party loyalty, but increasingly the rural areas are shifting away from progressives there as well, following national party trends.At the heart of it is a political resentment.In the early 20th century, the Midwest and West were suffering heavily from monopolistic businesses and trusts that made it difficult to operate. Standard Oil owned the railroads and made entry into the market for new participants impossible. Special interests put protectionist tariffs on literally thousands of products, and this overwhelmingly favored the East Coast merchants who held the political power. Progressive reformers were coming from the West and Midwest specifically because of the push back against those special interests.By the end of the 20th century and into the present day, that resentment has now shifted. Where early progressivism benefited the West and Midwest, new regulations started instead interfering with those same people. The biggest gripe I hear from the farmers and manufacturers is how the government comes in and tells them what to do. They’re especially bitter about wetlands protection and pollution controls.The “nanny state” was just fine a century ago to them when it broke up the trusts and reduced predatory lending from the banks. That favored them. Now, the “nanny state” works against them. So, they resent it.In essence, you can see the exact same pattern in the rise of conservatism in these formerly progressive areas as the rise of progressivism itself: rural America pushing back against what they see as unfair government and economic conditions.Rural Republicans in Wisconsin jumped heavily on the Trump train over his rhetoric about immigration, in no small part because undocumented immigrants are heavily employed in the shrinking dairy industry there, and those voters resent and blame immigrants for unfairly out-competing them for jobs.[21][21][21][21] [22][22][22][22] [23][23][23][23] [24][24][24][24] (Ironically, dairy farmers say that they’ve had to pay well over minimum wage just to keep immigrant workers on their farms because citizens just plain won’t do that work.)The rural folks in Wisconsin now tend to see government as an entity that sucks in their tax dollars and spends them on the city areas and not back on them. Now, whether that’s the reality or not, that is the perception, and that’s largely what matters. As a result, they’ll tend to skew towards voting for candidates that promise tax relief and to reduce the scope of government regulation in their lives; right now, that’s conservative Republicans.And in part, that’s why even though more liberal candidates are often winning statewide races in higher-turnout elections that get urban voters motivated, the state legislature tends to skew towards conservatives.* (*Setting aside deliberate and egregious partisan gerrymandering, it’s still more likely than I think people realize that conservative rural Republicans would likely still have a hold on the legislature, because districts are still geographically represented, not on pure population alone.)It’s not because the people of Wisconsin are particularly ideological. You won’t find a lot of discussions about political science and theories of government. You’ll mostly just find bitterness about the damned assholes from Madison who don’t know what they’re talking about comin’ in and telling us how to plant our crops and fish our ponds.President Obama managed to speak to that in 2008.In 2008, you had an economy in free fall and a lot of mistrust about how Republicans had handled it.By 2012, the economy was starting to rebound, but Wisconsin did not see a lot of that recovery. There was a great deal of resentment about the ACA and how it was going to raise the cost of health care, a greater burden on an already fragile out-state region. And so, you see the shift.By 2016, the economy still wasn’t improving much for Wisconsin in the out-state region. Trump promised to fix that, and promised a great deal of de-regulation. Results?Notice that some of the red counties have gotten a little more heavily shaded, but overall, it’s still reasonably pretty light. And it was fairly lightly blue before that in 2008.Go back a ways, to 2004.20001996The state isn’t exactly bouncing back and forth like a ping-pong ball between two large extremes, per se. It’s always reasonably close. The 2016 presidential election was decided by less than 20,000 votes. Just one or two counties could have swung the whole election.The 2018 midterms were a great example of that. Statewide races for governor, attorney general, and a Senate seat all went to more liberal candidates, but by a razor-thin margin. Senator Tammy Baldwin, a very progressive/liberal Senator, won relatively handily against Leah Vukmir, a state senator who was one of the architects of the law that stripped public sector unions of collective bargaining rights and instrumental to passing right-to-work legislation that weakened private unions.A state supreme court race was decided just this past week by about 6,000 votes out of 1.2 million ballots cast. [25][25][25][25]And this race itself extremely well illustrates the urban-rural, and particularly north-south divides in Wisconsin.[26][26][26][26]Hagedorn, like other Republicans in the past few years, did better in the state’s rural areas, especially in the more impoverished northern rural areas that are far away from any metro area. But those areas have increasingly shrinking population, leading to diminishing influence in statewide races.And so, it becomes largely a matter of turnout, which tends to favor conservatives in low-turnout elections such early April mid-year elections. It’s likely the same reason that a significant number of local school referendums failed by narrow margins this past week on April 2, 2019, [27][27][27][27] [28][28][28][28] [29][29][29][29] while voters overwhelming approved referendums that were part of the 2018 November mid-term elections.[30][30][30][30] [31][31][31][31]All of this goes to show that the state is still very much a state where both major parties have legitimate chances to win statewide elections.You’ve read a long answer without a lot of pictures. Here’s a cute kitten as a reward.Mostly Standard Addendum and Disclaimer: read this before you comment.I welcome rational, reasoned debate on the merits with reliable, credible sources.But coming on here and calling me names, pissing and moaning about how biased I am, et cetera and so forth, will result in a swift one-way frogmarch out the airlock. Doing the same to others will result in the same treatment.Essentially, act like an adult and don’t be a dick about it.Getting cute with me about my commenting rules and how my answer doesn’t follow my rules and blah, blah, whine, blah is getting old. I’m ornery enough today to not put up with it. Stay on topic or you’ll get to watch the debate from the outside.If you want to argue and you’re not sure how to not be a dick about it, just post a picture of a cute baby animal instead, all right? Your displeasure and disagreement will be duly noted. Pinkie swear.I’m done with warnings. If you have to consider whether or not you’re over the line, the answer is most likely yes. I’ll just delete your comment and probably block you, and frankly, I won’t lose a minute of sleep over it.Debate responsibly.Footnotes[1] Amazon.com: The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (Chicago Studies in American Politics) eBook: Katherine J. 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Cramer: Kindle Store[2] Rural, Northern Wisconsin Projected to Lose Large Numbers of Children in Coming Years - Wisconsin Budget Project[2] Rural, Northern Wisconsin Projected to Lose Large Numbers of Children in Coming Years - Wisconsin Budget Project[2] Rural, Northern Wisconsin Projected to Lose Large Numbers of Children in Coming Years - Wisconsin Budget Project[2] Rural, Northern Wisconsin Projected to Lose Large Numbers of Children in Coming Years - Wisconsin Budget Project[3] Rural Wisconsin Counties Continue To Lose Population[3] Rural Wisconsin Counties Continue To Lose Population[3] Rural Wisconsin Counties Continue To Lose Population[3] Rural Wisconsin Counties Continue To Lose Population[4] Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.[4] Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.[4] Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.[4] Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.[5] Wisconsin's Modest, Uneven Population Growth So Far In The 2010s[5] Wisconsin's Modest, Uneven Population Growth So Far In The 2010s[5] Wisconsin's Modest, Uneven Population Growth So Far In The 2010s[5] Wisconsin's Modest, Uneven Population Growth So Far In The 2010s[6] 'Purple State' Status A Factor In Milwaukee’s 2020 Democratic National Convention Bid[6] 'Purple State' Status A Factor In Milwaukee’s 2020 Democratic National Convention Bid[6] 'Purple State' Status A Factor In Milwaukee’s 2020 Democratic National Convention Bid[6] 'Purple State' Status A Factor In Milwaukee’s 2020 Democratic National Convention Bid[7] Wisconsin's Population Boasts Modest Growth[7] Wisconsin's Population Boasts Modest Growth[7] Wisconsin's Population Boasts Modest Growth[7] Wisconsin's Population Boasts Modest Growth[8] Wisconsin's Population Boasts Modest Growth[8] Wisconsin's Population Boasts Modest Growth[8] Wisconsin's Population Boasts Modest Growth[8] Wisconsin's Population Boasts Modest Growth[9] Are Rural Voters the ‘Real’ Voters? Wisconsin Republicans Seem to Think So[9] Are Rural Voters the ‘Real’ Voters? Wisconsin Republicans Seem to Think So[9] Are Rural Voters the ‘Real’ Voters? Wisconsin Republicans Seem to Think So[9] Are Rural Voters the ‘Real’ Voters? Wisconsin Republicans Seem to Think So[10] Origin of the Republican party at Ripon, Wisconsin | Newspaper Article/Clipping | Wisconsin Historical Society[10] Origin of the Republican party at Ripon, Wisconsin | Newspaper Article/Clipping | Wisconsin Historical Society[10] Origin of the Republican party at Ripon, Wisconsin | Newspaper Article/Clipping | Wisconsin Historical Society[10] Origin of the Republican party at Ripon, Wisconsin | Newspaper Article/Clipping | Wisconsin Historical Society[11] Project MUSE -[11] Project MUSE -[11] Project MUSE -[11] Project MUSE -[12] The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - Kindle edition by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.[12] The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - Kindle edition by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.[12] The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - Kindle edition by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.[12] The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - Kindle edition by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.[13] Wisconsin Used to Be Progressive. What Happened?[13] Wisconsin Used to Be Progressive. What Happened?[13] Wisconsin Used to Be Progressive. What Happened?[13] Wisconsin Used to Be Progressive. What Happened?[14] The Career of Robert M. La Follette[14] The Career of Robert M. La Follette[14] The Career of Robert M. La Follette[14] The Career of Robert M. La Follette[15] La Follette and His Legacy[15] La Follette and His Legacy[15] La Follette and His Legacy[15] La Follette and His Legacy[16] How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps[16] How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps[16] How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps[16] How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps[17] How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps[17] How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps[17] How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps[17] How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps[18] Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism[18] Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism[18] Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism[18] Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism[19] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-platform-through-the-years-shows-partys-shift-from-moderate-to-conservative/2012/08/28/09094512-ed70-11e1-b09d-07d971dee30a_story.html?utm_term=.ed83ec5f77c9[19] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-platform-through-the-years-shows-partys-shift-from-moderate-to-conservative/2012/08/28/09094512-ed70-11e1-b09d-07d971dee30a_story.html?utm_term=.ed83ec5f77c9[19] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-platform-through-the-years-shows-partys-shift-from-moderate-to-conservative/2012/08/28/09094512-ed70-11e1-b09d-07d971dee30a_story.html?utm_term=.ed83ec5f77c9[19] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-platform-through-the-years-shows-partys-shift-from-moderate-to-conservative/2012/08/28/09094512-ed70-11e1-b09d-07d971dee30a_story.html?utm_term=.ed83ec5f77c9[20] Wisconsin population trends show urban areas growing, rural areas shrinking[20] Wisconsin population trends show urban areas growing, rural areas shrinking[20] Wisconsin population trends show urban areas growing, rural areas shrinking[20] Wisconsin population trends show urban areas growing, rural areas shrinking[21] Dairy Industry Threatened By Recent ICE Arrests[21] Dairy Industry Threatened By Recent ICE Arrests[21] Dairy Industry Threatened By Recent ICE Arrests[21] Dairy Industry Threatened By Recent ICE Arrests[22] Immigrants are backbone of Wisconsin's dairy operations[22] Immigrants are backbone of Wisconsin's dairy operations[22] Immigrants are backbone of Wisconsin's dairy operations[22] Immigrants are backbone of Wisconsin's dairy operations[23] Even as Donald Trump rails about immigrants, Wisconsin dairy farmers build bridges to Mexico[23] Even as Donald Trump rails about immigrants, Wisconsin dairy farmers build bridges to Mexico[23] Even as Donald Trump rails about immigrants, Wisconsin dairy farmers build bridges to Mexico[23] Even as Donald Trump rails about immigrants, Wisconsin dairy farmers build bridges to Mexico[24] Under Trump, Wisconsin dairies struggle to keep immigrants[24] Under Trump, Wisconsin dairies struggle to keep immigrants[24] Under Trump, Wisconsin dairies struggle to keep immigrants[24] Under Trump, Wisconsin dairies struggle to keep immigrants[25] Brian Hagedorn's likely Supreme Court win cements conservative dominance in state[25] Brian Hagedorn's likely Supreme Court win cements conservative dominance in state[25] Brian Hagedorn's likely Supreme Court win cements conservative dominance in state[25] Brian Hagedorn's likely Supreme Court win cements conservative dominance in state[26] A big court race reflects the deepening north-south, rural-metro dividing lines in Wisconsin[26] A big court race reflects the deepening north-south, rural-metro dividing lines in Wisconsin[26] A big court race reflects the deepening north-south, rural-metro dividing lines in Wisconsin[26] A big court race reflects the deepening north-south, rural-metro dividing lines in Wisconsin[27] Voters in New Berlin reject $25 million school referendum[27] Voters in New Berlin reject $25 million school referendum[27] Voters in New Berlin reject $25 million school referendum[27] Voters in New Berlin reject $25 million school referendum[28] The future of the Palmyra-Eagle School District is in doubt after $11.5 million referendum fails[28] The future of the Palmyra-Eagle School District is in doubt after $11.5 million referendum fails[28] The future of the Palmyra-Eagle School District is in doubt after $11.5 million referendum fails[28] The future of the Palmyra-Eagle School District is in doubt after $11.5 million referendum fails[29] Voters narrowly reject $130M Neenah referendum; Freedom and Kaukauna proposals also fail[29] Voters narrowly reject $130M Neenah referendum; Freedom and Kaukauna proposals also fail[29] Voters narrowly reject $130M Neenah referendum; Freedom and Kaukauna proposals also fail[29] Voters narrowly reject $130M Neenah referendum; Freedom and Kaukauna proposals also fail[30] Almost All School Referendums Approved In Wisconsin Midterms[30] Almost All School Referendums Approved In Wisconsin Midterms[30] Almost All School Referendums Approved In Wisconsin Midterms[30] Almost All School Referendums Approved In Wisconsin Midterms[31] Wisconsin School referendums break records in 'landslide for public education'[31] Wisconsin School referendums break records in 'landslide for public education'[31] Wisconsin School referendums break records in 'landslide for public education'[31] Wisconsin School referendums break records in 'landslide for public education'