Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
I can tell you with firsthand accounts that it is awful out there for kids. I have friends with children who say their kids are depressed and mope around the house all the time. I have a relative in middle school who gained about 40 lbs and rarely leaves the house. I have another relative in high school who suffers from depression and it’s only gotten worse. That relative’s sibling dropped out of virtual college and delivers pizza full time. I’m one of the lucky ones because I live in a suburb where about half the parents pretty much disregard… Read more »
Its a complicated issue, but your second paragraph suggests that one social event or a series of events ignoring the common advice regarding minimizing the chances of any such participants getting the coronavirus would seem to justify an ever-increasing number of other such events. I think some may come to regret that cavalier attitude. How can one say with confidence this might not be promoting a super-spreader outcome at some point locally?
“I think some may come to regret that cavalier attitude. How can one say with confidence this might not be promoting a super-spreader outcome at some point locally?” I don’t buy in to the COVID fear for kids under 18. More kids in Chicago died from gunshots than COVID in 2020. 46% of CPS 6th graders were obese- not overweight, but obese, in 2018. That’s far worse than a case of the sniffles. We keep away from grandma, and the elderly neighbors. Everyone seems to be OK. I believe every chinese coronavirus death in my town was in the nursing… Read more »
Okay, but you are playing sort of Russian-roulette odds here. We all do that everyday to some extent, of course. Some ignor–ance is probably fine, but to the extent that it becomes cavalier it might well become ignorance.