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Title: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: mystery-ak on August 25, 2021, 12:52:19 pm: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Published August 24, 2021 • Updated 2 hours ago

Gov. J.B. Pritzker warned Tuesday that if Illinois' COVID metrics don't decline, "significantly greater mitigations" could be imposed in the state.

"We're consistently looking at the menu of options that we may need to impose in order to bring down the numbers," Pritzker said during a press conference. "I will remind you that if we are not able to bring these numbers down, if hospitals continue to fill, if the hospital beds and ICUs get full like they are in Kentucky -that's just next door to Illinois - if that happens, we're going to have to impose significantly greater mitigations."

As of Tuesday, 37 Illinois counties and Chicago were at a "warning level" for intensive care unit bed availability, according to data from the state health department.

For a county to reach "warning level," it must have below 20% ICU bed capacity, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported.

All counties in Illinois, except one, are also seeing "high" community transmission of COVID-19, placing the most of the state in the category in which everyone over the age of 2 should resume wearing a mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status, health officials say.

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Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: Kamaji on August 25, 2021, 12:59:57 pm: More fascism in the guise of "for your benefit."
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: EdinVA on August 25, 2021, 01:15:39 pm: The open border is working as planned...
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 25, 2021, 07:55:37 pm: Quote from: Kamaji on August 25, 2021, 12:59:57 pm
More fascism in the guise of "for your benefit."

I think there is an applicable quote from T.S. Elliot somewhere....
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: Kamaji on August 25, 2021, 08:00:32 pm: Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 25, 2021, 07:55:37 pm
I think there is an applicable quote from T.S. Elliot somewhere....

Or from the original Nazis: Für Ihre Sicherheit
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: rustynail on August 25, 2021, 08:03:46 pm: Call in the refrigerated trucks!
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: PeteS in CA on August 25, 2021, 10:53:10 pm: Looking at the graphs here, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/illinois/ , both daily new cases and deaths are declining. What now, Putzker?
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: catfish1957 on August 25, 2021, 10:56:25 pm: I for one, sure don't want him to put the boot on me? :silly:
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: Wingnut on August 25, 2021, 11:08:17 pm: You can't stack shit "wider" that Jelly Belly Prickster
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: mountaineer on August 25, 2021, 11:58:59 pm: Quote
"We're consistently looking at the menu of options ..."
In his case, it's the dessert menu. You can't go wrong with cheesecake, big guy.
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 26, 2021, 12:01:16 am: Quote from: mountaineer on August 25, 2021, 11:58:59 pm
In his case, it's the dessert menu. You can't go wrong with cheesecake, big guy.

He looks more like a Pecan Pie sort of guy.
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: Wingnut on August 26, 2021, 12:25:34 am: Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 26, 2021, 12:01:16 am
He looks more like a Pecan Pie sort of guy.

Pumpkin. He's from Il. You are what you eat.
Title: Re: Pritzker Warns of ‘Significantly Greater Mitigations' If COVID Metrics Don't Decline
Post by: libertybele on August 26, 2021, 12:28:37 am: Quote from: mountaineer on August 25, 2021, 11:58:59 pm
In his case, it's the dessert menu. You can't go wrong with cheesecake, big guy.

Cheesecake is always fabulous!