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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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It could have ended sooner if they would have used meds they fought so hard to ban.
That still leaves 10M people who either tested negative of did not contract the virus. Out of the 2.8M just over 30K died half of those in nursing homes or long term care facilities most with preexisting medical conditions or now called comorbidities. So that means 2,770,000 people recovered with mild to moderate symptoms. Also out of a total population of 12.7M some 30K died but 12,670,000 survived. The negative is always promoted and make headlines but the positive is swept under the rug. Just putting it into perspective.
January was the first diagnosed case but quite a few people got really sick in Nov, December and January 2020 without ever getting tested.
It’s all but over now. Omicron was the solution, not the problem.