JB on CV (Chicago, Time: restaurant, vs., beaches)

[purplesky]

He sent all the positive covid patients back to nursing homes. THey should have kept McCormick Place open (wasted a lot of money in contracts and construction), and the patients from hospitals should have transitioned to MP for 1 week or more until they had a negative COVID test. The nursing homes were **** shows. I worked at one.

[fusillirob1983]

Originally Posted by purplesky

He sent all the positive covid patients back to nursing homes. THey should have kept McCormick Place open (wasted a lot of money in contracts and construction), and the patients from hospitals should have transitioned to MP for 1 week or more until they had a negative COVID test. The nursing homes were **** shows. I worked at one.

My point was about reopening, but I agree, they should've focused COVID resources at McCormick Place as much as possible to allow hospitals to continue focusing on "elective" procedures and other pressing medical issues.

Nursing homes should've taken more drastic measures to remain closed off much earlier given there was plenty of time to see what happened in Washington state.

Those couple of things and some of the regional borders within the state are where I disagreed with him. I also think the state lucked out with so few cases occurring at protests, but with that, there may have been few cases due to those events being outdoors and so many attendees wearing masks.

The shut down also should've started about a week earlier. If grading straight up against results, I'd give him a B or B-. Grading on a curve among the other 50 governors he gets an A- (none deserve an A, IMO).

[Bitey]

Originally Posted by fusillirob1983

As Illinois enters Phase 4 today, it's important that everyone continues to follow safety guidelines that have kept the number of new cases down in June. Wash hands, wear a mask, keep distance and hopefully cases will remain low or continue to decrease.

Let's not be like the other states that pretended the virus doesn't exist.

Florida - more than 8,900 new cases today
California - more than 7,000 new cases today
Texas - 17,000 new cases in the past 3 days
Missisippi - don't be Mississippi https://www.clarionledger.com/story/...ok/3260581001/
Georgia - prelim 7-day moving avg is over 1,000 cases per day. The peak in April was 760
Arizona - the governor is telling everyone to stay home. The number of daily cases at the end of May was under 1,000. Averaging about 3,000 per day for the last several days leading to June 19th (the website notes the last 4-7 days may have incomplete data).

Pritzker may be a hypocrite if some of the stories you're telling are accurate, but I can appreciate that he followed health experts better than almost any other governor.

Boy, we're doing soooo much better than all those states that supposedly pretended the virus doesn't exist, aren't we?

[wjj]

Originally Posted by Bitey

Boy, we're doing soooo much better than all those states that supposedly pretended the virus doesn't exist, aren't we?

Pritzker can only dream that Illinois was like Florida now. Florida average new cases (7 day average through 10/28) is only about half of the new cases being reported in Illinois, despite Florida having 50% more people than Illinois. Hmmmm. 50% fewer cases with 50% bigger population. 7-day positivity rate in Florida is below 5% (at 4.8% through 10/28) while it is 7.3% in Illinois and climbing. Florida death rate has been less than half of Illinois' rate since the beginning, but Illinois has improved. All this while Florida has been open for quite some time, has had no state mask mandate, schools are open for in person learning, HS sports are being played like usual, no restrictions on restaurants, no restrictions on crowd sizes, etc. Florida unemployment rate is 7.6% vs Illinois 10.2%. Florida took a different path and managed the pandemic while allowing the state to stay open, people to move on with their lives, and businesses to recover. Perhaps Pritzker could learn from DeSantis, but that will never happen. He would rather let the state crash and burn and crush residents and businesses before admitting that he was wrong.

[MSchemist80]

Yes I am going to have to reduce Illinois's grade to a D- we can't shut down again and let restaurants go extinct and unemployment skyrocket. Keep in mind for every 1% increase in unemployment an estimated 37,000 people die mostly from stress/coronary disease, substance abuse and suicide. So masks, good hygiene, work from home where feasible but no shutdowns.

http://www.edhovee.com/edhblog/2020/...ent-than-covid

[Chicago South Sider]

Originally Posted by fusillirob1983

My point was about reopening, but I agree, they should've focused COVID resources at McCormick Place as much as possible to allow hospitals to continue focusing on "elective" procedures and other pressing medical issues.

Nursing homes should've taken more drastic measures to remain closed off much earlier given there was plenty of time to see what happened in Washington state.

Those couple of things and some of the regional borders within the state are where I disagreed with him. I also think the state lucked out with so few cases occurring at protests, but with that, there may have been few cases due to those events being outdoors and so many attendees wearing masks.

The shut down also should've started about a week earlier. If grading straight up against results, I'd give him a B or B-. Grading on a curve among the other 50 governors he gets an A- (none deserve an A, IMO).

Is this post supposed to be some kind of joke?

[tolovefromANFIELD]

Originally Posted by fusillirob1983

As Illinois enters Phase 4 today, it's important that everyone continues to follow safety guidelines that have kept the number of new cases down in June. Wash hands, wear a mask, keep distance and hopefully cases will remain low or continue to decrease.

Let's not be like the other states that pretended the virus doesn't exist.

Florida - more than 8,900 new cases today
California - more than 7,000 new cases today
Texas - 17,000 new cases in the past 3 days
Missisippi - don't be Mississippi https://www.clarionledger.com/story/...ok/3260581001/
Georgia - prelim 7-day moving avg is over 1,000 cases per day. The peak in April was 760
Arizona - the governor is telling everyone to stay home. The number of daily cases at the end of May was under 1,000. Averaging about 3,000 per day for the last several days leading to June 19th (the website notes the last 4-7 days may have incomplete data).

Pritzker may be a hypocrite if some of the stories you're telling are accurate, but I can appreciate that he followed health experts better than almost any other governor.

Should you and your beloved governor have some egg on your face now or later?

[My Kind Of Town]

Restrictions were removed and cases rose. Why is this a surprise? Schools never should have opened to in person learning without a better plan in place.

[dtcbnd03]

The Biden celebratory super-spreaders going on right now means we need to open every single bar, restaurant, gym, etc at 100% full capacity with indoor dining and everything. All those "safety" arguments go out the window. We've now had protests, riots, looting and election celebrations with zero social distancing....and one's where Pritzker was front and center of the protest. I'm ignoring all social distancing rules from here on out.

[Justabystander]

Originally Posted by dtcbnd03

The Biden celebratory super-spreaders going on right now means we need to open every single bar, restaurant, gym, etc at 100% full capacity with indoor dining and everything. All those "safety" arguments go out the window. We've now had protests, riots, looting and election celebrations with zero social distancing....and one's where Pritzker was front and center of the protest. I'm ignoring all social distancing rules from here on out.

As I said in an earlier post, you sound so juvenile in wanting to be reckless with peoples lives, covid is raging, are you 12 or 13 in your thinking? Time to grow up my friend and start being responsible, if possible.