Milwaukee County is sick, with a disease that could be fatal for our beautiful city.

When sick, it does matter how you respond. Chest pain can be heart burn or heart attack. We might deny the fatal symptom because Tums are handy and appear to bring relief.

The symptom is our wretched discussion of transportation. Freeway, bus, bicycle, automobile, rollerblade, rail, truck, skateboard, foot, boat.

When a symptom is fed with palliatives we feel better because the pain goes away, but not the problem. This virus spreads with illusions - those pleasantries devoid of research.