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COVID-19 cases in the United States are growing, but the media is selectively covering the states with the highest numbers.
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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Hmmm… Could it possibly be that it is because the whole thing is bullshot?
I would guess that Florida’s summer rate occurred when people started spending more time indoors due to the heat, and now ours in Illinois is increasing with lack of vitamin D (sun) and more time indoors.
That is why the media is hiding it?
The media is increasingly a disgrace. They still print ridiculous stories about Trump every day. They don’t just want him out of office, they want to obliterate him, as they fear what will happen once he declares himself a member of the media once out of office. There is no coverage of bumbling Joe who can’t string two sentences together without losing his place on the teleprompter. He has mush for brains now, and it won’t get any better. It is sickening to watch the Lib messaging machine spew falsehoods daily. There needs to be an increase in alternate media… Read more »
It’s more than a disgrace. Free, honest press and information is essential to democracy, and they’ve subverted it.
Yea, looks like they are getting ready for it.
https://apnews.com/article/international-news-executions-cc1b22bda846df0b331597a3b65010bb
Same reason that the Johns Hopkins study saying that there were not more deaths due to COVID was taken down. Big Tech and the DEMS cover everything and fear monger.
If we hyper-focused on *flu* cases in years past, I would argue the numbers would be very similar to this years *covid* numbers, as was stated in the article you mentioned…
Where has the *flu* gone this year…?
Re-classified as covid…?
Just need to mask harder. If one mask is good two or three must be better.