A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
The people of Wisconsin are using common sense. Based upon the politicians the Illinoisans vote into office am I supposed to believe that they, the Illinoisans, have common sense?
What about the 19 states with rising covid-19 numbers? I like the way Illinois is moving along. Are there other fully opened states that show Wisconsin’s like stats?
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More testing means more discovered wouldn’t you say?
Most of those states with rising numbers are working off a low base and were late to have the virus hit. Those with improving numbers got hit hard earlier. If you try to match it all up against which states had tough lockdown rules, or later dropped them, you just can’t find any clear pattern. Same for other nations. Stanford University Nobel laureate Prof. Michael Levitt says governors who locked down their economies likely cost more lives than they saved. Marko Kolanovic, a physicist and a strategist for JP Morgan, who reviewed results from many locations, found that lockdowns had little… Read more »
Don’t you just love how the medical and journo mafias have turned most formerly reasoning folks into “Covid case obsessed” tunnel thinkers….are these “new lay scientists” going to now harp on all flu and cold case numbers between Oct. – Apr. of every year??? If not why not??? Cases cases cases. Show me where legitimate IFR exceeds flu and then there’s an intelligent measure of meaning to discuss. Then we might even discuss how fake the tests are.
Let’s review the bidding, as they say in bridge. 1: There were 286 new cases reported in Wisconsin on May 13, just as they were forced to reopen; yesterday there were 304 cases (both numbers courtesy of the New York Times). 2: According to NBC 5 in Chicago, there were 1677 new cases in Illinois on May 13. Yesterday–546. Illinois, then, has cut its cases by two thirds by not reopening, while Wisconsin has been treading water; actually taking on a little water. 3: In a number of states that have reopened recently–Florida, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina–there has been an… Read more »
“alarming spike in new cases”
You are no longer an objective observer as you proclaim to be, but instead, an activist. The moment you use the word ‘alarming’ to describe more widespread testing, you give away your agenda, JB.
New case numbers mean almost nothing because they are driven by how much testing is being done and on whom it is focused.Hospitalizations are universally regarded as the measure to watch. They continue to fall in Wisconsin. Illinois currently has three times more people in the hospital than Wisconsin.
What we’ve advocated for is a reopening plan that is more rational and faster with smaller zones that don’t senselessly lump them in with areas having entirely distinct problems, milestones for progress from one phase to another that are achievable, not Pritzker’s, some of which may never happen.
Pigster is to science what a sauna is to an ice cream cone. His objective is to break the state and move to a Leftie/Marxist system. We’re getting the Wokesterism we voted for…..except I didn’t.
I appreciate the sentiment and like that you look at all the numbers/data sets, but don’t look at each data point in a vacuum.
Hospitalization rate let’s you know when your in trouble but without looking at testing rates/positivity rates, new cases (rolling benchmarks), and active case rates simultaneously you cannot see the whole situation.
I was just in wisconsin last weekend. Mask are worn by many people, including all service industry, and there is social distancing in most places. It’s just sensible up there, not draconian like down here.
I’ve stood firm since these dictates (or “guidelines”) started that they are a con designed to normalize behavioral control from above, and have nothing to do with spread or containment of the “virus.” I mean really, WHEN did we decide that S.D. and masks have any validity in halting millions of always-changing viral particles in the universe??? It’s just a trending change in behavior from tyrannical-leaning politicos and medical mafia. Recommendations were in order for the elderly and ill/at-risk (totally blown in the nursing homes of course), but I’m not falling down the slippery slope of this anti-liberty nonsense.
Mark Glennon missed one glaring factor in his assessment. After Wisconsin opened up with virtually no guidelines or restrictions, it was swarmed each weekend, particularly Memorial Day weekend, with tourists, mostly from Illinois. What about those tourists, most of whom have been comporting themselves as though no virus exists, going home after days of revelry and spreading it in Illinois? Contrary to his opinion about social distancing being largely obeyed, nothing could be further from the truth! Almost no one wore masks or showed any regard for keeping distance. The sidewalks were packed shoulder to shoulder, as was the… Read more »
Katherine, it certainly has not been swarmed each weekend. I was there, too, on Memorial Day weekend, and have spent about half my time since then in the Walworth County. The Lake Geneva beach was crowded but no crowds other than that. I have seen no packed sidewalks then or since. Yes, you see fewer masks there, but most shops and restaurants were entirely closed and only in the past week began to open up. Read the study. It measured whether people continued social distancing. They did.That’s the whole point. The initial surge was small and, as you seem to… Read more »
Need Proof of Claim that these “principles” of social distancing or masks do ONE DARN IOTA OF ANYTHING as it relates to illness in the general public. There is none – it is a Hoax. People need to get that straight soon or the tentacles of control will continue to spread. Lots of reading available on this, not least of which is AIER article describing how this idea got to the Fed numnuts because of a schoolgirls’ conceptual science project. The adults in the room have abandoned ship big time.
Wisconsin only has about 13.5% of the population that is AA or Hispanic. Compare that to Illinois with around 32% or the city of Chicago around 63%. Probably less to do with social distancing and more to do with the racist virus.
We know these populations have a higher rate of vitamin D deficiency which is linked to higher incidence of diabetes and respiratory infections.
Being low in these vital nutrients like Vitamin D-magnesium-omega 3’s-zinc-b vitamins all add to untimely deaths from all causes. Most medicines that people take like HCTZ/diuretics for BP and diabetes medicines deplete b-12/CoQ10/folate and should be repleted. I still say that indirectly or directly the severity of Covid is caused by the many medicines people over 60 take. It is not uncommon for seniors to be on 5-10 different meds. Residents in nursing homes rarely get some sunlight. Why is it that younger people are somewhat spared from this? They are not on statins or BP meds yet but I’m… Read more »