Friday, May 8, 2020

Mayor Lightfoot is moving at double the speed as Pritzker

Here’s how Mayor Lori Lightfoot hopes to reopen Chicago ASAP

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot is following the governor’s lead in establishing four health-related questions that will determine when and how Chicago graduates to the next phase.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday unveiled, what she called a “Protecting Chicago framework” to guide the slow, but steady reopening of a city economy ground to
a halt by the coronavirus.
Like Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s plan to reopen Illinois, the mayor’s version has five phases with Chicago currently stuck in a Phase 2 that requires all but essential workers to stay home as much as possible. 
Lightfoot is also following the governor’s lead in establishing four health-related questions that will determine when and how Chicago graduates to the next phase.
They are: whether the rate of transmission of the novel coronavirus across Chicago and surrounding counties is decreasing; whether the city has enough testing and contact-tracing capacity to track the disease and limit its spread; whether there are enough “support systems” in place to protect “vulnerable” Chicagoans; and whether the health care system has capacity to handle a “potential future surge.”
But unlike the governor’s plan, in order to “cautiously reopen” Lightfoot has established a set of so-called “epidemiological factors” to determine whether the city can move to Phase 3 and future phases by measuring every 14 days — not every 28 days as Pritzker has proposed. 
“The 14 days the, kind of gestation period from the time of symptoms with COVID to when, typically, it runs it course in an individual. That’s the guidance that’s been followed for some time now. It’s certainly consistent with the CDC guidance. And we think that makes sense,”
The mayor noted that, “in the arc of” the coronavirus, “28 days is a very long time.” Does that mean Pritzker is moving too slowly between phases?
“I can’t say that he’s moving too slowly. We’re both — as are all leaders across the state and the country — trying to make sure that we’re guided by the science and the data and really letting that dictate how and when we move,” the mayor said.

10 comments:

  1. Anonymous5/08/2020

    No press conference Saturday and Sunday, Pritzker flying to Florida for the weekend ✈️ ☀️ 🏝

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    1. Anonymous5/08/2020

      Those fat flailing arms are gonna be tired.

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  2. Anonymous5/08/2020

    What a joke, every one knows the data is compromised, where is she getting her data from? Who is collecting this data and who is in charge of the accuracy of this data ? On the subject of science, what or who exactly is she getting her scientific information from? Just some questions a real media person would ask, but we have a bunch of Democratic suck asses. A bunch on non answers really on the part of a leaderless mayor, what a shame

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    1. Anonymous5/08/2020

      You cant question her sincerity.

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    2. Anonymous5/09/2020

      garbage in garbage out, vote accordingly next time

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  3. Anonymous5/08/2020

    And you have one pool reporter asking Pritzker questions at his press conferences and when he lowers that feed bag on his face to speak, he begins to flail his arms, pretending he's really sorry about everything and looking like Flounder from Animal House. Another pathetic politician using the "data and science" line and deferring questions to his medical expert, a pediatrician from Oak Park. We're screwed

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  4. Anonymous5/08/2020

    Pritzker is releasing child sex offenders from prison my family will never ever vote Democrat again shame on Pritzker! Madigan must support releasing child sex offenders too,

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  5. Anonymous5/09/2020

    This reminds me of the old Toyota commercial,” You wanted it,You got it!”

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  6. Anonymous5/09/2020

    By Fran Spielman
    Chicago Sun-Times
    May 7, 2020
    Fran is a good reporter. 😁

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  7. Anonymous5/10/2020

    Her sincerity is aligned with the Demonrats political agenda, your right, no question about that.

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