Illinoisans are hurting. (Chicago, Columbia, Time: school, university, to move)

[My Kind Of Town]

Originally Posted by dtcbnd03

What's your point? It's mostly elderly with underlying causes. 650k die from heart disease every year. It's called life. Or do you want to shut down the world until we have a cure for every single cause of death and people live to be 1,000?

Well, first we were told back in February/early March, look H1N1 killed 12,500 Americans and Covid hasn’t even killed 100 people yet! Why is everyone freaking out?! Once we blew past that total, we were told in late March/early April, look the seasonal flu kills 60,000 Americans and they are only forecasting 60,000 covid deaths by August. This is nothing! We blew past that total and they’re now forecasting 150,000 by early August and god knows how many by February/March 2021 one year after we started counting deaths from this pandemic. But sure, keep moving the goalposts and underselling the severity of this pandemic...

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by dtcbnd03

Master Jay - Totally agree. I went to Lake Geneva on Monday to go boating and it was mostly Illinois plates in the parking lot. I know people typically head up there for the summer but it's 10-fold now with everything open up there.

Lake Geneva is too humid and warm, Eagle River, Minocqua, Manitowish Waters area is where I usually go to.

[deeman7]

Originally Posted by My Kind Of Town

Wisconsin...also seeing increases recently. Again, let’s see how they’re doing in another couple weeks before declaring victory

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.jso...amp/5329557002

To JUST say cases are rising is misleading, testing has increased a TON. Here is a very positive quote from the article you linked.


Wisconsin reported 270 new coronavirus cases Tuesday out of 14,227 tests run since the previous day, placing the percentage of positive tests at 1.9% — a new low since the pandemic began to pick up in the state.


The percentage of positive tests, a metric that health officials once used to guide reopening after Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order, has been on the decline with a few blips back upward since early May. Since May 28, it has hovered at or below 5%

[MovingForward59]

Originally Posted by Master Jay

MovingForward59, good morning. Since the George Floyd incident, I have not seen anything different in terms of numbers, protocol nor inmate demographics. I work in a jail in southeast Wisconsin.

Wishing you all a great day!

You missed the point.
In light of George Floyd the days of mass incarceration & private prisons are coming to an end.
Prisons will be shrunk & closed over the next decade. Its not a job safe industry anymore.

[My Kind Of Town]

Originally Posted by deeman7

To JUST say cases are rising is misleading, testing has increased a TON. Here is a very positive quote from the article you linked.


Wisconsin reported 270 new coronavirus cases Tuesday out of 14,227 tests run since the previous day, placing the percentage of positive tests at 1.9% — a new low since the pandemic began to pick up in the state.


The percentage of positive tests, a metric that health officials once used to guide reopening after Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order, has been on the decline with a few blips back upward since early May. Since May 28, it has hovered at or below 5%

That’s a good point. Probably better to focus on hospitalizations, which many southern states are seeing increase the past couple weeks.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews...%3fid=71181103

[Master Jay]

MovingForward59, I see what you're saying. Luckily if I didn't work in the jail, I have other things I could do professionally.

Hopefully though, anyone that is a danger to society would be institutionalized if they are not rehabilitated.

[fusillirob1983]

Originally Posted by deeman7

To JUST say cases are rising is misleading, testing has increased a TON. Here is a very positive quote from the article you linked.


Wisconsin reported 270 new coronavirus cases Tuesday out of 14,227 tests run since the previous day, placing the percentage of positive tests at 1.9% — a new low since the pandemic began to pick up in the state.


The percentage of positive tests, a metric that health officials once used to guide reopening after Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order, has been on the decline with a few blips back upward since early May. Since May 28, it has hovered at or below 5%

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ominou...ry?id=71154842

"In Arizona, average COVID-19 hospitalizations have risen 49% from May 26 to June 9, the second-biggest rise of any state during that time period."

Does that have anything to do with testing?

That's encouraging so far for Wisconsin, but hopefully people aren't being as lackadaisical up there as people in some of the southern states.

[Enean]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

Lake Geneva is too humid and warm, Eagle River, Minocqua, Manitowish Waters area is where I usually go to.

It's too bad Wausau doesn't have more lakes. Rib Mountain and hilly topography make the area beautiful, and the lake and rivers contribute to that, but various lakes, and the area would be a very popular tourist destination in the summer. I think it's definitely more of a winter destination. Not as far north, either, as some of those other locations.

[dtcbnd03]

Chicago expecting a $700M budget shortfall. Renters are exiting New York and San Fran in mass (which will hit Chicago too). Businesses in Chicago are contemplating exiting the city due to shut downs and riots. And we're still talking about phased reopenings?!?!?!? Beyond dumb...open everything up NOW.

[fusillirob1983]

Originally Posted by dtcbnd03

Chicago expecting a $700M budget shortfall. Renters are exiting New York and San Fran in mass (which will hit Chicago too). Businesses in Chicago are contemplating exiting the city due to shut downs and riots. And we're still talking about phased reopenings?!?!?!? Beyond dumb...open everything up NOW.

San Francisco has had 3 consecutive days of no new cases, which is almost insane for a dense city of that size, New York's cases are very low right now, and Illinois is the only state out of 50 that met federal reopening guidelines.