Mark and Ted kick off 2022 by talking about the ongoing effects of Illinois and the nation’s misguided and often counterproductive COVID policies.
Pieces discussed:
- Governor Pritzker’s condescending defense of failing ‘same ‘ol same ‘ol’ COVID policy – Wirepoints
- Running out of hospital beds is the biggest danger of Omicron? Then why has the Pritzker administration let the supply of ICU beds collapse by nearly 1,000?
- Why No Discussion Of COVID Treatments In Illinois?
- Illinois’ COVID-19 data: Daily update
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/12/2024.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently promised electric car maker Rivian $827 million in taxpayer subsidies when he shouldn’t have given the company a penny. The question is, was it negligence or something more?
One very curious matter about masks for which I do not expect an answer. The “enthusiasm” for masks waxes and wanes. First cloth, then paper, then N-95, then nothing, then the merry-go-round resumes.
What I want to know is where are these masks made, by whom, and who profits from the start and stop recommendations? Do some of the muckety-mucks at the CDC, FDA, NIAI, or other alphabet soup organizations which ought to be dispensing only advice, not mandates, have a financial interest in mask making?
Where’s real reporting when it’s desperately needed?
Years ago when Facebook first appeared with the slogan “follow me….”, my first and lasting reaction has been “nope.” Every after I’ve always called “social media” “asocial media” because to me there’s nothing “social” about it When categorizing deaths, no distinction seems to be made between those who died with whatever variety of the Wuhan flu is foremost today vs. those who died from the Wuhan flu. Further, apparently there’s a bounty system for hospitals, and perhaps insurance companies, who get so much – paid by whom from what source? – for the categorization of deaths. As we all know,… Read more »
Not to minimize the tremendous disaster that is this State’s public health policy and its assault on personal liberty, but the increasingly larger gorilla in the room is inflation. CPI increases not seen for forty years? Food and energy prices are quickly becoming unbearable. Imagine the State compounding this problem with more disastrous policies.
The state absolutely will compound these problems with more disastrous policies, because the Joe Biden Regime can do no wrong in the eyes of it’s most ardent voters. Right now, according to a poll from 1/9/22, 81% of Democrats strongly or somewhat approve of Joe Biden’s performance in office, with Dem men and women approving roughly the same. Four out of five Democrats look at the current situation and say “THIS IS GREAT GIVE ME SOME MORE” and “KEEP GOING, DESTROY MORE”. Remember, in 1980, 41% of the country looked at Jimmy Carter’s disastrous policies and said PLEASE GIVE ME… Read more »