Illinois declared a COVID DISASTER area?!

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https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-is-still-proclaiming-illinois-a-covid-disaster-area-how-does-he-do-it-with-a-straight-face/

#Governor J.B. #Pritzker recently declared #Illinois a Covid disaster area for the 31st consecutive 30-day period. For more than two years, the governor has invoked a “disaster” to rule by executive order. It’s what allowed him to lock down businesses, impose mask mandates, close schools and micromanage healthcare across the state.
His most recent emergency declaration of June 24, 2022 continued to use the same language: “I find that a disaster area exists within the State of Illinois and specifically declare all counties in the state of Illinois as a disaster area.”
Even if you were sympathetic to Pritzker’s disaster declarations during the height of the pandemic, you’d have to admit his pronouncement is absurd today. Every major metric, from vaccinations to hospitalizations to deaths, tells us that.
By the end of June, 78% of adults and nearly 90% of Illinoisans aged 65-plus – the most-vulnerable population to #Covid – were #vaccinated.
Just 3% of ICU beds, on average, were filled with Covid patients over the past three months. It’s the same with regular hospital beds.
Illinois has averaged eight Covid deaths a day over the last three months, and even then, it’s hard to know whether they died because of Covid or with Covid.
88% of Illinois’ 744 Covid deaths since April 1, 2022 have been over the age of 60 and the average age of those deaths has been about 75, not too distant from Illinois’ average life expectancy of 79.
Not a single person under the age of 20 has died in the last 3.5 months.
The fact that Pritzker’s disaster proclamation declares all counties a disaster area is also indefensible. Some counties, like tiny Putnam and Edwards, have Covid cases appearing in single digits and haven’t experienced a single Covid death in over three months.
Instead, Illinois remains just one of 14 states, and the only one of our neighbors, to “manage” Covid via an emergency order.
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