3,000....2,000....1,000
McCormick Place hospital beds are being scaled back by 2,000 beds to a total of 1,000 now:
- City and state officials have decided to open 2,000 fewer beds at the McCormick Place medical center for now, citing the slowing growth of COVID-19 cases in Illinois.
McCormick originally was supposed to have 3,000 beds in case Chicago-area hospitals were hit with more coronavirus patients than they could handle at once. For the time being, however, a planned 1,750-bed hall won’t be opened. And a separate hall for sicker patients has been scaled back by 250 beds.
In recent weeks, Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said Illinois has been bending the curve, meaning the number of cases is growing at a slower rate than it was. Around the beginning of April, cases were doubling every 3.6 days, and as of mid-April, that had been stretched to about 8.2 days.
Since it's leveling off, perhaps Illinois should consider moving up the timetable to reopen the state and start generating revenue? Revenue that every surrounding state is preparing to snatch up since their schedule is far more ambitious that Putzker's.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
72 Comments:
I live in Lakeview.
If Indiana re-opens, I can be in NWI in 40 minutes with the current state of traffic.
I will certainly join a gym In Indiana and commute out there 4/5 days a week.
While out there I will buy all of my groceries (much cheaper), gas (much cheaper), and basically anything at all I need to buy.
Fuck Illinois and these gluttonous asshole politicians.
Doesn't feel like it's leveling off. Our numbers are up up up.
On the other hand I’m still getting paid for side jobs I’m not even working.
YEAH... well, New York just shut down their McCormick field hospital AND the hospital ship is sailing away.
NYC claims the largest number of cases but dosent require the capacity.
Have we, the people, been lied to yet again by our government ?
Rahm Emanuel said, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Why spend a lot of money tearing everything down? A perfect place for the homeless to live. The beds and tents are there. It would get them out of the neighborhoods, the parks, from under the viaducts, out of lower Wacker, out of the Loop, off of the CTA and out of the police stations. Everything in one spot. It would he heaven for them!
I love how they are scaling this all back while simultaneously extending the stay at home order. We’ve been sold a false bill of goods here. Masks required for everyone too? Whose math are they using?
Pritzker is aiming to drive the state directly into total financial ruin in an attempt to ask for the feds to bail out the pensions, unpaid creditors, and infrastructure that is already at an alarming rate of 61 billion owed. In the end, the joke is going to be on him if the feds tell him to go to hell.
You know what’s NOT leveling off?
The 011th District stupidity.
The 06 team chases a “stolen car” onto 290 where they wreck, totaling yet another car. Thankfully both POs treated and released. Turns out car wasn’t stolen after all. So what do those clownsocks do? Plan B, of course !! Traffic citations and a call to K9 for “asset forfeiture proceedings” cuz dude has a couple Gs on him.
So again, on top of failing to recognize that anything proactive needs to be put on hold til Da Rona is over, these morons chase for a property crime (Strike 1). Wreck another car (Strike 2). Put countless other officers at risk responding for BULLSHIT (Strike 3). Exposed district coworkers, support unit (K9) and anyone else in the building by bringing in a head that should’ve been ignored from the beginning (Strike 4).
Hopefully you assholes WILL be held accountable at some level. Quit creating unnecessary work for all those too dumb to avoid or unlucky enough to get dragged into you bullshit and those you put at risk when social distancing and FETAL are the words you should be living by during a pandemic that’s particularly prevalent in the ghettos. Shame on you fucks for doing anything more than driving in circles burning gas for your four.
Guys like you doing shit like this is why other coppers won’t roll on your assists in the future. Figure this shit out already, “rangers”. The hide you save may be your own.
I heard they have 3 watches 24/7 guarding 7 patients. I thought there's private security? Waste of taxpayer money.
Illinois is not worried about tax revenues!
The City, County and State are all looking to raise taxes, cut your benefits for citizens not for illegal Federal law breakers and not settle overdue contracts!
No raise for Police for sure!
Keep voting Democrat!
Better yet, Vote Trump 2020!
It ain't over 'til it's over. Still a long way to go. Hell, Germany is doing better than us, but cancelled Oktoberfest!
As expected...the Emperor has no clothes. I didnt hear it becaue I cant stand the sound of his voice but this is take from Wirepoints.....this guy is despicable. He will let you know when his royal highness feels its accurate enough for him to allow you to know
Comments by Governor Pritzker on antibody tests, April 24, 2020:
I also want to talk briefly today about antibody tests, which have been in the headlines recently and have created a lot of buzz. I want to make sure that people have the facts about whether and how these tests are useful.
In theory, these tests could be an effective tool. We’re craving answers in an uncertain time and antibody tests offer the potential for more security. But I’m afraid we’ve seen many of these tests promoted in a way that errs on the side of irresponsible.
To be clear, these tests are not quite where we need them to be to offer a true metric of immunity in Illinois. This is not an Illinois specific problem. As of today, there still are no antibody blood tests certifiably proven to accurately and consistently diagnose COVID-19 antibodies. There are several reasons for that.
First, no one yet knows the true sensitivity and specificity of these tests. That is how accurate or inaccurate they are. Obviously you want to test to be accurate and not offer many false positives or false negatives. That kind of accuracy is in part tied to how long it’s been since a person, potentially had the virus, since it takes, each of us time to produce antibodies, and it’s in part tied to the quality of the test.
Second, this is a novel virus, entirely new. So researchers don’t yet know the extent to which having COVID-19 antibodies equals, having immunity. That’s a question whose answers will only be revealed over weeks or months, and maybe even years, for example, is there a certain exposure level at which antibodies don’t protect you. Or, if you can become immune. How long would immunity last?
Third, it’s not yet confirmed that these tests are able to explicitly identify COVID-19 antibodies versus Corona viruses that cause things like the common cold. The test must, must definitively identify antibodies for COVID-19, and nothing else for them to be fully effective.
We’re monitoring those studies and we’re planning how we could deploy those tests when they’re ready. As soon as they prove themselves accurate and reliable, I will make it a priority to get them into our communities as widely as we can. What I won’t do is run full speed ahead with these tests before they’re proven. Because, among other things, we will be offering people a false sense of security. I’ve said since the beginning that here in Illinois, we will rely on factual data, and we will lead with the science. That, and the goodwill of the people of Illinois, will be what sees us through this pandemic.
It needs to go down significantly before you accelerate opening. They are opening cautiously. Opening right now means opening as the curve flattens - which is actually at the peak. That’s not wise. They are making plans to open post leak. We just have to be a bit patient.
Southern and western Illinois can open now. The collar counties, maybe not, since we're all in on creating an economic depression to get rid of Trump. I hope lots of our civilian friends get used to the idea of eating dog food because they enabled these totalitarian monsters to destroy all of us. Close a country down for a flu like death total is insanity. The suicides will be in the tens of thousands because of their ruined lives.
Our morbidly obese Gov. Putzker has decided to have elective bariatric surgery with a goal of losing over 200 pounds.
He will have the roux-en-y procedure at a top Chicago hospital.
OK started reopening Friday, 24APR.
Expect to have everything up and running by 1MAY.
Best definition I’ve heard for the last 60 days - ‘Panic-demic’
Is the USS Mercy still steaming down the Great Lakes to PricksterLand?
NYC didn't even fill a fucking bed. Meanwhile the Tribune prints every Trump COVID MURDER and can't shut up about "drinking disinfectant".
Can you imagine if they printed every stupid thing Biden has said? The paper would be double its size.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
as soon as it gets up to 70 and quits raining im going out. and the only mask im wearing is a jesse james stage coach robber mask. and im gonna crawl thru every damn bathroom window in this city until i find who's got all the damned toilet paper ! try and stop me koppers ! " im on top of the world ma ! "
Biggy smalls is a follower, not a leader. He will wait and see what indiana and wisconsin do before he gets off his toilet and makes a proclamation and starts blaming trump for everything. The real shock and awe will come when the dust settles and they realize how big the budget hole really is.
I never realized how racist doctors and nurses are. Since the data shows that blacks are dying at a rate higher than their population, it MUST be because doctors and nurses are not trying as hard to keep them alive as white patients
Open the damn economy. NOW!!!!
Was in Manitowoc yesterday. All gas stations had regular unleaded gas at $.99/gal. Grocery stores are fully-stocked, ditto for the open big box stores. All Manitowoc County has had TOTAL of 9 cases, of which 4 are current cases, 0 deaths. And this is a solidly blue-collar small city with significant lower middle class population. With exception of Milwaukee city, there's litttle genuine need for social distancing because with exception of certain areas of Milwaukee, folks operate on basis of civility and good sense. Wisconsin could reopen today, while isolating nursing homes. Let's face it, here in Midwest there's a noticeable socio-economic profile to non-nursing home, non medical/nursing personnel-related cases.
There's most definitely an irrational nanny-state SJW component to this lockdown, even while this draconian reaction is destroying economy and financial future for 90% of folks. 1%'res are still thriving nonetheless, regardless. Look at the bailouts, who got the big money. Our average overpaid government figurehead is guaranteed a stellar pension and lots of financial perks regardless of how inept, how corrupt, how stupid, how mistreated the voting taxpayers are.
The bottom line----Governor Jabba has no clue.
I live in Lakeview.
If Indiana re-opens, I can be in NWI in 40 minutes with the current state of traffic.
I will certainly join a gym In Indiana and commute out there 4/5 days a week.
While out there I will buy all of my groceries (much cheaper), gas (much cheaper), and basically anything at all I need to buy.
Fuck Illinois and these gluttonous asshole politicians.
4/26/2020 12:07:00 AM
It took a panic-dema to convince you of acting as you have vowed? You are well behind the curve.
Word is that the State's pop up hospitals cannot get the necessary medical staff to run these facilities.
There have been incidents were COVID-19 patients are being sent from hospitals to nursing homes to provide hands on care. Nursing homes do not have isolation rooms nor the equipment necessary to treat these infectious patients.
And the only curve Jabba Pritzker can see is his own belly.
Luckily I heard he and his Zimbabwe doctor said people should not drink, inhale, inject or swallow any bleach to kill the corona virus. Wow thanks Jabba I never would have thought that would be dangerous. But I guess the people who voted for you would think it was safe
Sherman hospital , Westlake Hospital and a third in Chicago were refitted to be re opened for virus patients at 18 million each. Now they do not think they need them. It is not like real money just tax money
To the 1st poster at 1207. If you live in Lakeview, no need to go to Indiana. Hop on I94 and go north to Wisconsin. Right over the border is Woodman's, a GREAT grocery store with a far better selection of product than anywhere else and there is no tax on food in Wisconsin. When you leave Woodman's you can stop at the SHELL gas station right there and gas up for 1.29 a gallon. Or you can go a little farther west to say, Bristol and gas up for 1.14. But why do all that driving. Pack up and get the hell out of Illinois. Life is good.
Jelly brain's reopening pace aligns with his workout routine: nonexistent.
That super fat lard ass JB "the hut" Pritzjag wants to keep torturing Illinois citizens and drive this state into complete bankruptcy. I can't wait for Trump to tell him to go fuck himself when lardass asks for a bailout.
Anonymous said...
It needs to go down significantly before you accelerate opening. They are opening cautiously. Opening right now means opening as the curve flattens - which is actually at the peak. That’s not wise. They are making plans to open post leak. We just have to be a bit patient.
Great advice. You're the same guy who would tell a cop now to go into a building after a bad guy until the building was first searched by a robot; or fireman to enter a burning building until all the smoke clears. There's some risk in everything we do. So that we have an economy and society to reopen, it needs to do so now. Even Jesus Christ only fasted for 40 days in the desert.
when will pritzgers impeachment begin?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Doesn't feel like it's leveling off. Our numbers are up up up.
4/26/2020 12:09:00 AM
Because more people are getting tested!
AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
It ain't over 'til it's over. Still a long way to go. Hell, Germany is doing better than us, but cancelled Oktoberfest!
4/26/2020 01:21:00 AM
I got news for you, Kool-Aid drinker, it ain’t ever going to be over. There is always some flu virus floating around out there. Where does the insanity end? Is the government going to crash the economy for a virus? Use your noodle to figure out the government has some ulterior motives concerning this “plandemic”
Its all a big bullshit show aimed at hurting POTUS, if you cant see that your probably a liberal democrat
I hope Indiana opens up soon, I need to get my gambling fix in
Police voting for Democrats is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders. We must vote for our interests like the parasitic leaches vote for theirs. They will vote for the person that gives them free stuff on the taxpayers dime, and bash the police. The alternative to that is Trump weather you love him or hate him, it's the truth.
Lets all stay home and collect 2000 a month from the govt like some demorats are proposing. Then they can create the matrix where we all live in cocoons and wear virtual reality goggles.
Fat Bastard will eventually figure out that the fed ain't gonna bail out Illinois, the longer business remains closed, tax revenue stops, and his communist advisors don't have a clue how to raise money for the state besides new taxes. Any thought on how to create an environment conducive to increasing business through lower taxes and law and order, sure as hell won't come from him or cpusa. Decrease spending? Ha ha ha!
LMAO@ 4/26/2020-02:54:00 Hilarious!
They're breaking down the temporary multi-million dollar hospital in Houston. It never saw a single patient.
For all you brilliant patient people spouting the Governors company line about "Flattening the Curve" and we must follow the "Science",why don't you tell that to the thousands of people without jobs and all of the businesses that are destroyed and will never reopen.Everyone has the information about this flu strain at nausea.Let them decide if they want to open their businesses.
Jelly brain's reopening pace aligns with his workout routine: nonexistent.
When you see JB coming onstage for his daily briefing, that is not a surgical mask he's wearing..... Its a feedbag filled with carmel and cheese popcorn (which he loves)
Are these people stupid? Wouldn't it make more sense to open the city for business AND THEN DISMANTLE the hospital! See how the whole thing plays out BEFORE you take out the beds? Oh, I forgot, these guys have no intention of opening up the city/state for business. It is their intention to collapse the state economy and file for bankruptcy!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
It needs to go down significantly before you accelerate opening. They are opening cautiously. Opening right now means opening as the curve flattens - which is actually at the peak. That’s not wise. They are making plans to open post leak. We just have to be a bit patient.
4/26/2020 01:27:00 AM
Read this:
Herd immunity
DescriptionHerd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through previous infections or vaccination, thereby providing a measure of protection for individuals who are not immune. Wikipedia
Wait til next weekend.. chicago temperatures in the mid 70s .. Chicago clown mayor lightweight will need McCormick Place for all the shooting victims
Stay at home next weekend ????? ..my ass.. larri will give a pass to all her community voters on west side
Just as Rahm said it— don’t let a tragedy go to waste.
Our morbidly obese Gov. Putzker has decided to have elective bariatric surgery with a goal of losing over 200 pounds.
He will have the roux-en-y procedure at a top Chicago hospital.
-- Gov Fat ass doesn't need an expensive surgery to lose weight- just wire his jaw shut for the next 10 years. He'll not only lose weight, but he'll save the environment by consuming less and expelling less waste/pollution through both ends of this body, and best of all, we don't have to listen to anymore bs coming from this disgusting gastropod.
Of the 8 counties in the SW area of Indiana known as the tri-state, Vanderburgh is the largest with Evansville (about185K) the 3rd largest city. That county has tested 2300. 114 are positive. ONE DEATH.
The total 8 county population is 398K. 236 are positive covid and 14 have died. Of those 14 11 were from one nursing home in Warrick Co.
And the local economy is in tatters because of this massive con job.
(not a bad place to bail to, long hot summers and the golf courses are open--(and year round)
NYC claims the largest number of cases but dosent require the capacity.
Have we, the people, been lied to yet again by our government ?
4/26/2020 12:23:00 AM
The ship and field hospitals were a joke. An admissions requirement list the size of Mt. Everest nobody was ever going to be admitted there. So much for helping out the overworked hospitals. First only non-covid patients but again they only treated a very select group of illnesses and only when they felt embarrassed by the figures being released and they ended up having covid patients anyway did they change their tune. These field hospitals apparently were not ICU so they would never be much help. State and Fed government bungled response.
Speaking of revenue,
If they can turn that place into a hospital
and move hundreds of vehicles in
and out for an auto show, along with numerous other
configurations, then why the fuck
can’t they open a casino??
Their panic scare pandemonium is fizzling out or Lyin’Larri Lightloafers & JB Chronic Obstructive found the Cure... NO Fed bailout money.
Let’s not put the cart before the goat. There could still be 40,000 people waiting to get hospitalized and that will devastate out hospital capacities if we don’t act decisively. People will Die™️.
Maybe MacCormack just got a big fat contract for a big fat political second city nominating convention and need to start on sprucing things up. Maybe there’s a Chinese buyout plan for the real estate. Could JB Two-Lunch use the site to build that expensive, unnecessary, architectural oddity, takeout food container building as a presidential compound, moving it from its present contested park district proposed location?
Larri, JB and the DNC the frantic panicking ones now.
If folks get out en mass it will make them look really bad. They dragged this out as long as weather permitted and finally run out of options and that money, because invoices and bills need to be paid. Vendors and donors are weary because this political debacle isn’t faring well with the public nationwide and Chicago and IL are claiming they broke. Start quietly dismantling the tents, tables, signs and soon no more daily updates. Just watch how this will turn into a pr stunt of pats on the backs amongst all the elected. Heil Lari & JB for their participation.
Was this Socialism preview into tyranny a success? Is a Yes We Can - Mission Accomplished campaign coming?
Let me know when the plywood comes off the Magnificent Mile Gold Coast, it’s a significant indication of good times and The Summer of Larri is near.
I just hope the fed up lakefront liberals have figured out this Democrat hoax. They certainly will be expected to pay up bigly in real estate taxes for this disaster.
Best definition I’ve heard for the last 60 days - ‘Panic-demic’
I like the term "scamdemic"
I got info from a very reliable source that the city and state knew that they would never use the McCormick Place hospital. This entire things was constructed , so connected people and their company’s would profit off of this pandemic. My source tells me that there were dozens and dozens of I-pads and I-phone sitting unattended with no one knowing how many were ordered or how many were at the facility. I’m not saying that this pandemic isn’t serious , but I don’t think it’s as serious as the politicians are making it out to be. I believe Lightfoot and Pritzker are using this crisis to extort money from the government.
Governor Fred Flintstone has cancelled all Veterans Programs for Memorial Day. He will not allow Honor Guards or wreath laying at Military Cemeteries. Not sure how JB has jurisdiction over Federal Cemeteries operated by the VA.
DEATH CITY
(Bend This)
Wired Magazine, April 2020 Issue
Granted this was written and published pre-lockdown.
And on page 078 (My, aren't we cleaver with the numerals)
there's an ad for the 15th annual Pitchfork Music Festival
Chicago, July 17-19, 2020, Union Park
Checking online, this still seems a "go."
But don't get any OT dreams just yet.
I have a feeling L.L. will pull the plug out of concern for public
safety. We have massive shifting of resources just to cover
events in April. So that's bound to skyrocket in July.
The logistics, the travel, the cars, the lodging. I just don't see
it happening. One less event for Bozo Brown to worry about.
Shocking video shows 1,000 people drinking and dancing in defiance of social distancing orders at massive party in Chicago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8258795/1-000-people-ignore-social-distancing-Chicago-party.html
...but the A Team in NYC has the answer to this racist virus -
Mayor Bill de Blasio appoints his wife head of coronavirus racial inequality taskforce 'to make sure NYC rebounds as a better and more just society than the one we left behind'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8258565/Mayor-Bill-Blasio-says-20-months-rebuild-New-York-City.html
This is hardly an "unprecedented" event; it's really only affected most of us for a matter of weeks now. The tectonic plates have not warped - this is just our first pandemic with cell phones in the hands of the me-me-me screamy generation that's bought up every bit of the toilet paper - as the Skull Men in the "inner city" shift the odds onto themselves by partying down with the microbes.
We don't need the extra beds because of the stay at home, thus the curve is flattening (which was the whole point) and hospital capacity didn't get overrun. Opening everything back up right now puts us back at square one, and then better keep those beds at mccormick.
Our hyperaccelerated cellphoneworld is DONE with the entire Covid-19 outbreak. I mean, we've been looking at it for a whole five minutes now - time to move along. Its bo-ring.
Visions of a post-coronavirus America: Experts share their thoughts on how 'Great Depression-era new deals' for healthcare, housing reform and government programs could shape a new society
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8256593/Out-pandemic-crisis-new-New-Deal-look-like.html
...but if you read this story...
"The New Deal was really a series of new deals, spread out over more than six years during the Great Depression - a menu of nationally scaled projects..."
Took more than six years. All the nuts today are expecting some kind of vast sea-change after maybe six weeks
I'll keep avoiding crowds for now, thanks.
Fuck you, Fred Flinstone.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/04/26/video-hundreds-attend-chicago-house-party-during-coronavirus-pandemic/
If the state isn’t opened up by mid-May we are done. My friends in the food industry have exhausted almost all of their savings and means. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind the Dems are trying to extend this until Nov. It’s the most appalling time in American since the Civil War and your neighborhood restaurant and corner store are the casualties. It starts this weekend GET OUT on the first 70+ Weekend and enjoy...life.
I miss being allowed outside. When is the next Election Day?
“...8 counties in the SW area of Indiana known as the tri-state, Vanderburgh is the largest with Evansville (about185K) the 3rd largest city. That county has tested 2300. 114 are positive. ONE DEATH. The total 8 county population is 398K. 236 are positive covid and 14 have died...”@ 4/26/2020 11:17:00 AM
— there is a covid plague map of all states.
Indiana has only two “hot spots”.
Gary and Indianapolis.
Must be the illegal guns n’ammo that brought that plague shit up in here.
Illinois will be dead fucking last.
Yeah he will keep the schools closed throughout the rest of the year all of them getting paid what are the administrators doing what are all these teachers doing except for having prayed throughout the neighborhood slapping the taxpayers in their face showing how they have time to parade around laughing and joking getting full pay and benefits and police escorts what kind of an upside were down world we live in?
Schools Should Prep Fall E-Learning Plans 'Just In Case'
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/schools-should-prep-fall-e-learning-plans-just-case?fbclid=IwAR3k9rVJgpu0zTCmzKOth3i5rElDMiZRhus1QSqWZavIHNo_QBr708J8nM4
No contract for the police no hazard pay for the first responders sitting home on your ass is full pay benefits pension being paid into incredible but then again they have a real union that pays off all these elected politicians millions and millions of dollars taxpayers dollars thrown away as usual.
Just about anyone I talk to police & non-police state they were really ill in January & beginning of February before this blew up all over the news. I’ll guarantee a great majority of people (especially in metropolitan areas) have the antibody for this. You’d think rather than pushing for 10000 Covid tests they would push for the serology testing, that to me seems vital in reopening the state. And why couldn’t that test be linked to a national online questionnaire which would track your infection rather than what seems to be a clunky disorganized system of interviewers to conduct Contact Tracing. Seems like we’ve had almost 2 months to figure this shit out.
Interesting video by two doctors questioning COVID response - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwXuxLt75K8
This is just the beginning of the fiscal mismanagement and outright theft of resources.This already is the successful destruction of not only this city and State but most of the large cities are decimated and will be for the most part boarded up vacant store fronts.This downtown area will resemble a ghost town.At least 85% of these small businesses will never see the light of day again.The historical questions will be was it worth it and who profited from it?
Feels like CPS math on figuring out this problem. Please calculate how many beds will be needed. The answer I gets is 3,000. That is correct! (Even though the correct answer was 1,000 beds, in this city, you’re right when you’re wrong and you pass tests/get promoted when you technically embarrassed yourself and failed.). You cost us a ton of extra money, but, good goin’!
4:11 am
.......Doctors and nurses racist ......
You are an absolute idiot.
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