* Another effort by elements of the far right to sow doubt…

That's incomplete and not often enough. We need to see it by region, which he clearly has but is withholding. He gets all the info every morning at 10am and there is no reason to hide it or present it selectively as he did today.

— Wirepoints (@Wirepoints) April 7, 2020

The second image in press release is ICU only. Why? Because that's where things are indeed tight (though fixable). He omitted broader regionalized hospitalization data because there is excess. He is playing games by selectively releasing partial data — and getting away with it.

— Mark Glennon (@GlennonMarkE) April 7, 2020

Pritzker said regular beds can be converted to ICU-like bed with a little effort. If no regular bed shortage why is he demanding huge additional fed help for more regular beds? And why is he demanding PPE sufficient to cover all regular bed even though not needed?

— Wirepoints (@Wirepoints) April 7, 2020

Because, first thing you need is a negative pressure room. You can't just convert any room into an ICU for COVID patients. And then you need the equipment (including ventilators, heart and oxygen monitors) to fill it. It can be done, but it is not done with "a little effort"

— Rich Miller (@capitolfax) April 7, 2020

Yes, I'm well aware of those stories. But, again, not every hospital bed can be converted to an ICU. And, who says they're not adding ICUs? You're jumping all over the place. Focus, Amanda, focus.

— Rich Miller (@capitolfax) April 7, 2020

His whole point appears to be that some hospitals aren’t overwhelmed. OK, but nobody has ever once claimed otherwise. And he never did get back to me with an exact quote or a link to Pritzker’s alleged claim that hospital beds can be converted to ICUs “with a little effort.”

* From Pritzker’s press secretary Jordan Abudayyeh…

Wirepoints gets the privilege of being able to sleep at night without having to wonder if you did enough to save the people whose deaths you had to announce that day. And he gets to go to sleep without worrying what tomorrow’s body count will be and if in few weeks we will have enough space to treat everyone who depends on us. That must be very peaceful.

* Meanwhile…

Clearly I struck a nerve today with our thin-skinned Governor. He singled me out in one of his low information pressers today for writing an article that demanded some measures of accountability.

How dare his subjects question anything.

This is what is so dangerous with these people. If you dare to question them, they will misrepresent you and accuse you of promoting policies that will “let people die.”

What a bunch of sick, dishonest and unaccountable group of people.

Posted by State Representative Blaine Wilhour - District 107 on Tuesday, April 7, 2020

He didn’t single anyone out. He answered a reporter’s question that was specifically about Wilhour and didn’t so much as mention Wilhour’s name in response…

Reporter: How do you respond to Rep. Blaine Wilhour’s suggestion that the longer we’re quarantine that the more we delay herd immunity, which could ultimately lead to more people getting the virus?

Pritzker: Okay folks, let me just point out that Great Britain went by this theory that perhaps if we just let everybody get it then everybody will get hurt, we’ll have herd immunity faster, and everybody will be okay. Well guess what, if you let everybody have it all at once, which is what happens when you just let it go, you overwhelm your healthcare system and more people die. A lot of people can die. And so the suggestion that we should just let it happen so that the herd immunity occurs faster is an invitation for us to just let people die. And I won’t do that. I will not do that.