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The four metrics include test positivity, hospital beds occupied by COVID patients, ICU beds occupied by COVID patients and daily COVID cases. The seven-day rolling averages for each category need to be at a "low transmission" level, which is set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
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.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Can we please stop calling her the “top Doctor” and refer to her as an indoctrinated over paid bureaucrat.
Can we stop calling her a doctor at all? Anyone who continues to promote this narrative and participate in a group that denies monoclonals and other effective treatments in Illinois should lose their license.
Not only that, she likely required gastric bypass surgery to look like she does now (and I think she still looks quite unhealthy).
aren’t are spinless city leaders shaking in their boots waiting to here from their CTU overloads? CTU contractual mask mandate ends in August I believe. would be hilarious if city and entire state is mask-less in next month while CPS is forced to wear masks til August
The story summary line and paragraph two say “the city is watching four metrics, three of which need to drop to ‘low transmission risk.'” In paragraphs 8 – 9 the target is said to be the “lower transmission” category: City officials say that once three of the preceding four metrics hit the “lower transmission” level, that will start a two-week clock, known as an “incubation cycle.”After those two weeks, if the numbers remain within the “lower transmission” category, then officials would move to remove mitigations that are in place. In terms of this crazy-arbitrary chart and Dr. Arwady’s even crazier… Read more »
It all does seem arbitrary too given that mask wearing itself is arbitrary and doesn’t even work.
The city is following the science of the teachers union wishes. If Larry lifts the mandates, masks in school can be optional and teachers will melt like the snowflakes they are.