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Originally Posted by sentinel
I wish you could please understand that this is not specific/unique to Chicago alone, and that the entire country is struggling and will for some time before things get back to 'normal.' Chicago is not dying, people will not leave en masse, and things will stabilize. Every single city in the country is really struggling in a variety of ways that may be unique to that city.
I understand how it is to have a visceral reaction to how Covid and recent protests have paralyzed our way of life and the fear that things won't improve, especially when we all want nothing more than Chicago to grow and thrive as best it can. One day at a time, and just...chill. Also, I'd recommend quoting a more reputable business news source for a better, balanced perspective, next time. Fox Business and Fox 'News' in general have had a massive hatred of Chicago for over a decade, and are hardly the most reliable news source, especially for hyper local news.
For me, if Lightfoot and the Guv were smart, now is the time to privatize police and fire dept pensions, at least partially if not fully.
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Yeah and Illinois and Chicago squashed this outbreak pretty good. Historically the places that act the most decisively to quash a pandemic recover the soonest and strongest. We have been reporting less than 1000 cases a day for a week now and seeing numbers we haven't seen since March when we were doing a tiny fraction of the number of tests we are now.
Today we reported only 661 cases which is the lowest since 3/30 when we only did 2,600 tests. We do over 20k a day now very consistantly. There were only 139 positives in the city of Chicago reported today.
Testing is now open to basically anyone who wants it and has left their house in the last two weeks. My wife and I just got tested for Covid and Covid Antibodies yesterday because we are taking the baby to Des Moines to meet my in laws who are both immunocompromised. Thanks to the availibility of test (which is covered by all insurance) we can go visit family without any concern of transmitting the disease. That's how you eliminate a pandemic.
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