Michelle Litjens Vos, a conservative pundit and former state lawmaker, called the country's coronavirus prevention and mitigation efforts an overreaction in a series of posts on her personal Facebook page.

"I want to go on record and say we could be unnecessarily destroying our economy," she wrote.

"COVID IS NOT AIRBORNE (droplets yes, airborne no)," she wrote. "My GOD we're over reacting."

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated that respiratory droplets — "produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks" — can carry the disease from person to person.

A New England Journal of Medicine study found that the virus could remain suspended in air between a half-hour and up to three hours.

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Her post received more than 100 likes.

In another post, Vos wrote, "Yes people will die of this. It just isn't worth shutting down our whole economy - except grocery stores. In my opinion."

Reached by a Journal Sentinel reporter, Vos declined to comment, saying she doesn't want people to misconstrue her opinions as being those of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester.

She posted the thoughts in mid-March, before Speaker Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald rejected Gov. Tony Evers' request to move the election to May 19.

Speaker Vos proposed making an exception to the governor's stay-at-home order and social distancing guidelines to allow Wisconsin residents to celebrate Easter or Passover services.

"It is more important than ever that we allow Wisconsinites to observe their individual faiths," Vos and other Assembly members wrote in a Friday letter to Evers.

Evers denied the request.

In a tweet, Speaker Vos also accused Milwaukee election officials of wanting "problems instead of actual solutions" for the shortage of poll workers and polling locations. His tweet earned the ire of election official Neil Albrecht, who said the state's refusal to delay the election would put the public's health at risk.

Michelle Litjens Vos represented District 56 of the Assembly for one term (2011-13) and has been a constant fixture in conservative politics as a fundraiser and pundit.

Contact Talis Shelbourne at (414) 403-6651 or tshelbourn@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @talisseer and message her on Facebook at @talisseer.

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