Madison Reporter

The University of Wisconsin Whitewater (UWW) student-led College Republicans recently hosted conservative Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh.

According to a video posted on Mary Patriot News, the College Republicans booked Walsh as a speaker through Young America’s Foundation, a conservative group for college students. 

The topic of the speech was the left’s “war on reality.” Walsh first commented about the University’s COVID-19 policies, saying they are not rooted in reality or science and pointed to students being required to wear masks regardless of vaccine or immunity status. He also argued that COVID-19 poses a low risk to college students.

According to the University of California San Francisco, a study published in Health Affairs compared the COVID-19 growth rate before and after mask mandates in 15 states and the District of Columbia found that mask mandates led to a slowdown in daily COVID-19 growth rate. Infectious disease specialist Peter Chin-Hong, MD, spoke about the necessity of masks for everyone. 

"I think the biggest thing with COVID now that shapes all of this guidance on masks is that we can’t tell who’s infected," Chin-Hong said. "You can’t look in a crowd and say, oh, that person should wear mask. There’s a lot of asymptomatic infection, so everybody has to wear a mask."

Walsh also covered the topic of abortion, questioning the logic behind the left's distinguishing between the life of a fetus and the life of a human outside the womb. He argued that each fetus is a distinct human entity. He argued against the claim that "women have the right to choose" by saying that "the body in question is not the woman’s, but her unborn child."

The UWW College Republicans had previously attempted to invite Walsh, but the the university reportedly canceled the event several times due to pandemic-related concerns.