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Southern Illinois on verge of mitigation as Pritzker heads to region
Monday, Oct 19, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller * Media advisory issued last night…
As of yesterday, Region 5’s 7-day rolling average positivity rate was a disturbing 9.1 percent. It had been above 8 percent for two straight days. Three days of 8 percent or higher triggers mitigation. Region 5 is the area in green at the southern tip of Illinois…  47 percent of the region’s hospital beds were available as of yesterday. * From Friday…
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- Cadillac - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 7:36 am:
Might as well schedule a trip to Region 7 and Region 8 on Wednesday.
- Nathan - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 7:54 am:
Region 8 (Kane/DuPage Counties) hit 8.4% yesterday and looking at the trend, it will most definitely go into mitigation later this week. Region 7 (Will/Kankakee counties) hit 8.2% yesterday and the trends don’t look so hot there either.
I think the Governor is going to have to put another lockdown in place like back in March to get this under control. The whole state is a hot mess.
- Masked - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 8:11 am:
I think the Governor is going to have to put another lockdown in place like back in March to get this under control. The whole state is a hot mess.
Faucci said not needed..
- PublicServant - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 8:15 am:
Yeah, sounds about right. Those boys just don’t learn. Countdown to the announcements by local sheriffs about not enforcing the shutdown orders.
- Dee Lay - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 8:17 am:
Every region except for city of Chicago is at 7% and up. We are headed for another devastating lockdown, it is only a matter of time. When the UIUC tests make up 20-25% of tests in the state, our statewide positive rate is absolute fools gold.
Get the legislators back in a safe working space and have codify the IDPH rules into law with a sunset date. This next lockdown is going to kill a ton of restaurants, bars, and smaller businesses and the covid-chasing Devores of the world are going to prey on the business owners trying to save their business.
Do your part, wear a mask.
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 8:25 am:
If Region 3, which includes Springfield and west central Illinois, eventually goes to mitigations and/or a lockdown, anyone know how State offices in Springfield will respond to the mitigations?
Will we be going back to remote work or still coming into the office? (For those that are already back in the office, especially Secretary of State which has been back all-in the office since June 1).
- Independent - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 8:29 am:
By the third weekend in November shotgun season for deer will be underway. People from numerous states converge on the Shawnee, packing hotels and restaurants. A lockdown during this time would be devastating to a lot of small businesses.
- Dutch - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 9:18 am:
I’ve been wondering what effect it might have on the Governor’s decision process pertaining to Covid-19 if this were an election year for him. I’m not criticizing him. It’s just something I was thinking about.
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 9:23 am:
Since I am an allergy sufferer (household dust, ragweed, etc.), I’ve been wondering about if there’s any connections between COVID-19 and the allergy season which we enter into especially with harvest underway. Further complicated by extremely dry weather recently in central Illinois (including huge field fires in the past week around Paris and near Hillsboro).
Interesting facts page (with a quick reference chart) from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America outlining the differences in symptoms among COVID, common cold, flu, seasonal allergies and asthma:
https://www.aafa.org/covid-19-new-coronavirus.aspx
- Not a Billionaire - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 9:37 am:
Allergic Asthmatics may be less at risk because allergens compete with the virus for binding sites in the ACE recptor.
I want to go to stage 3.5 we beat Wave 1 then and we are losing Wave 2
Note A lot of the country missed Wave 1 and never left their worsening wave 1
Europe is having real problems with their wave 2 Illinois looks more like them than say North Dakota.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 9:39 am:
=== I’ve been wondering what effect it might have on the Governor’s decision process pertaining to Covid-19 if this were an election year for him. I’m not criticizing him. It’s just something I was thinking about.===
This is textbook concerned trolling.
What are you thinking about… specifically?
To the post,
What’s been disappointing is the lack of respect for others, and the sheer use of numbers to make this a political concern than one of a public health worry.
We are in a country where we will surpass 250,000 deaths… and there are leadership elements who think “it is what it is”
Holding in such low concern the deaths of 250,000, likely by the end of November…Americans who claim pro life beliefs see others’ lives as the cost of freedom.
I dunno how the governor’s visit will play out, I’d like to think it will give pause… the lives being saved can be a loved one, friend, neighbor… Illinoisan.
- thoughts matter - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 9:50 am:
Chatham Resident - the various public SOS offices have remained open in regions that have been placed on mitigation/restriction. Only specific locations in a building have closed when that building has had cases. I do not think an agency shutdown is likely to occur.
- Illinois Dentist - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 10:05 am:
I anxiously await the Governor’s announcement on dental offices. Will it once again conflict with what his own agencies are mandating?
- Just Me 2 - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 10:10 am:
=== A lockdown during this time would be devastating to a lot of small businesses.===
Because they’ve all been doing great so far?
- Ducky LaMoore - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 10:14 am:
It just makes sense that indoor conditions where people are close together increases the spread. If you are old enough to remember smoking in restaurants, as I assume most here are, when someone exhales deeply, the smoke spreads quickly and envelopes about a ten to fifteen foot diameter. Just because you can’t see it in your breath, doesn’t mean nothing is there.
- GC - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 10:23 am:
@Masked - Fauci said that in July presuming that people would wear masks, follow hand hygiene, etc. Welcome to August where people can’t get the clue.
I personally think a second lockdown will be a political impossibility but the number of alternatives is dwindling. It sure seems like we’re heading for a second crisis point and a second lockdown could do *less* health and economic damage than letting it burn. Consider this: the first time around, we saw economic activity fall off the cliff *before* lockdown orders were put into place (ref: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27432 ). If both (a) states (see: Wisconsin) start opening up field hospitals again to manage the surge; and (b) Congress doesn’t pass another relief bill - what do you see happening?
- Rich Miller - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 10:25 am:
===A lockdown===
Stop being overly dramatic.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 10:28 am:
===I personally think a second lockdown will be a political impossibility===
People need to stop using this term.
The stay at home orders were issued when scientists didn’t know what they were dealing with, how it spread, how it could be treated, how it could be prevented. Much more is known now. Masks are mandatory. Mitigations can be more targeted. School districts can decide for themselves whether to reopen with guidelines.
This isn’t March. All you’re gonna do is scare people with that nonsense. Stop it.
- Anonymous - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 10:41 am:
Lock down won’t do it. Wear your mask for goodness sake. Stay home. Be safe.
- informed citizen - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 10:56 am:
stop saying wear a mask proven it causes illness, everything counts as covid so i wonder why numbers are high.. if you try to force a mask on me i will come at you with vengeance
- Pundent - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 11:01 am:
=if you try to force a mask on me i will come at you with vengeance=
Might be more effective to come with grammar first. But then vengeance, definitely vengeance.
- Independent - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 11:05 am:
Lockdown was overly dramatic. Sorry for the Monday morning brain freeze.
I do hope Region 5 can get it together soon. They don’t want to go into hunting season with high positives.
- GC - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 11:08 am:
@Rich - a month ago I was saying the same thing. Then 450 hospital beds got pitched on the Wisconsin state fairgrounds. Like you said, this isn’t March — that measure shouldn’t have ever been needed, even accounting for the legal situation in Wisconsin (that doesn’t apply here in IL). Lightfoot is on the news right now saying cases are up 50% and that every demographic is seeing a jump.
I’m not trying to argue with you, I genuinely hope you’re right.
- don the legend - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 11:13 am:
==stop saying wear a mask proven it causes illness, everything counts as covid so i wonder why numbers are high.. if you try to force a mask on me i will come at you with vengeance==
If not a mask, will you let them force a ventilator on you?
- Rich Miller - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 11:31 am:
Why is it that commenters who use names like “informed citizen” are always the biggest dunces alive on the planet?
Lemme guess, doofus, you were a high school bully.
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 11:37 am:
SJ-R reported this morning that there will be a rally of District 186 (Springfield public schools) parents and students this evening urging the district to return to in-person classes (instead of all-remote). Ahead of tonight’s current D186 board meeting.
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20201018/students-parents-to-rally-at-district-186-headquarters-in-support-of-in-person-learning
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 11:46 am:
==Allergic Asthmatics may be less at risk because allergens compete with the virus for binding sites in the ACE recptor.==
Not a Billionaire–Thank you so much for your info. I have been thinking about this even more lately as almost every year during this time (from about mid-October to early November) I seem to be always due for an annual sinus infection and/or sore throat that lasts a few days. (Which usually means at least 1 day where I call in sick to work, and depending on severity a trip to the doctor’s office and some antibiotics). If it happens this year I’m thinking I should also get myself another COVID test this year just to be safe. (And if it was sinus congestion pressure, if it’s still the swab test that huge swab would feel really good going through my congested nostrils).
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 11:47 am:
Also, I had my flu shot already for the year last month. After Springfield Clinic opened up their new drive-thru flu shot places (since state employee flu shot clinics in state offices are not held this year due to the pandemic).
- Jibba - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 11:55 am:
Our current strategy seems clear: ride it out until a vaccine comes along, tamping down hot spots with additional restrictions as needed, but the results are not good. Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continue to rise. This is not tenable for the next 6-12 months. More/quicker restrictions and better enforcement are needed.
- Chatham Resident - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 12:12 pm:
==Might as well schedule a trip to Region 7 and Region 8 on Wednesday.==
That or you might as well just announce either today or Wednesday that the whole state returns to Phase 3 (like we had in June). Looking at the numbers this weekend and today it makes too much sense, get it over with now especially before Halloween and the holidays.
- JS Mill - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 12:44 pm:
=Lemme guess, doofus, you were a high school bully.=
Maybe, but more likely a high school dropout.
Mask work. Social distancing and mask work even better. Social distancing, masks, and enhanced sanitation work even better.
If they didn’t then explain places like Taiwan and S. Korea.
- illinifan - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 12:45 pm:
Region 7 unfortunately will do what it did last time. Individual mayors will again refuse to enforce. A lot of pumpkin farms have been operating in Region 7 and they are not enforcing or encouraging masks nor are they limiting the numbers of people entering. Denial is a wonderful place to live up until when you wind up in a hospital bed not being able to breath.
- Dotnonymous - Monday, Oct 19, 20 @ 1:26 pm:
“Lockdown” is a prison/jail term…only.
Quarantines work as a rule…only.