As state of IL mask mandate lifted,
updated guidance expected from
Chicago health officials Tuesday
Posted By: AltaD, 5/18/2021 11:46:26 AM
Gov. JB Pritzker officially put Illinois in line with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Monday, lifting the mask mandate for fully vaccinated people, although masks are still required in healthcare settings and on transit. More guidance is expected from Chicago health officials Tuesday, after Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she's keeping her mask on in most public settings and is encouraging others to do the same.(Snip) "I don't trust other people who don't have the shot," said Awilda Heredia. "And the kids around you who could pass anything because they're not vaccinated."
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Reporters out of Chicago are alleging that Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now granting interviews only to journalists of color.
NBC 5 Chicago political reporter Mary Ann Ahern took to Twitter on Tuesday to mark the "midway point" of Lightfoot's first term in office and apparently acknowledged her failed effort to land an interview.
"As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews - only to Black or Brown journalists," Ahern tweeted. And apparently, Ahern wasn't the only one.
"I was told the same thing," WTTW Chicago Tonight anchor and correspondent Paris Schutz reacted to Ahern's tweet.
As state of IL mask mandate lifted,
updated guidance expected from
Chicago health officials Tuesday 6 replies
updated guidance expected from
Chicago health officials Tuesday 6 replies
Gov. JB Pritzker officially put Illinois in line with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Monday, lifting the mask mandate for fully vaccinated people, although masks are still required in healthcare settings and on transit. More guidance is expected from Chicago health officials Tuesday, after Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she's keeping her mask on in most public settings and is encouraging others to do the same.(Snip) "I don't trust other people who don't have the shot," said Awilda Heredia. "And the kids around you who could pass anything because they're not vaccinated."
A Minneapolis TV meteorologist cracked up live on-air as a technical glitch caused her to multiply on the green screen.
FOX 9 meteorologist Jennifer McDermed was in the middle of delivering a forecast on Tuesday when suddenly the map behind her got blurry and multiple, swirly versions of her appeared, catching her off guard.
'Oh that is funky! What is going on?' McDermed said as she realized the what was happening. 'I don't really know what's going on!' (Snip) McDermed eventually has a fun with it and leads a 'train' of multiple versions of herself across the screen, each version of herself larger than the last, while her co-anchors laugh off
They were troubling images: marauding gangs of looters roaming Chicago and the suburbs, smashing windows, stealing merchandise and wreaking havoc with little regard for who might be watching. (Snip) The Cook County State's Attorney's office approved a total of 392 cases stemming from the two looting episodes in May and August. But nearly a year after the first looters took to the streets, only 33 cases have made it through the courts. Out of those, 26 individuals received probation and only seven will end up doing time in jail.
Chicago Blackhawks announcer Pat Foley is taking heat for referencing suicide during the team’s season finale, saying he would’ve “put a bullet” in his head if he had to travel with players amid the league’s COVID-19 restrictions.
Foley, who was wrapping up his 38th season Monday as the Blackhawks TV or radio announcer, made the remark while commenting on the team’s travel restriction (Snip) Minutes later, Foley said he regretted his word choice.
“I wish I didn’t say that,” he said. “I’m sorry if I offended some folks. Apparently I did, so I apologize.”
Reaction on social media was swift, with some people saying Foley’s apology left them unsatisfied.
Joe Biden Blames Law Enforcement for
Fueling ‘Distrust’ in Police Week
Statement Honoring the Fallen 15 replies
Fueling ‘Distrust’ in Police Week
Statement Honoring the Fallen 15 replies
President Joe Biden blamed law enforcement for fueling “distrust” in minority communities in his proclamation declaring Peace Officers Memorial Day and “Police Week.”
Peace Officers Memorial Day, May 15, honors all of the fallen law enforcement officers, as well as Police Week to remember all of the sacrifices from officials and their families across the country.
The president’s statement released Saturday expressed “gratitude for the selfless public servants who wear the badge,” but included a lengthy paragraph raising concerns about the “distrust” that police had created.
The statement read:
Before the architect Helmut Jahn designed United Airlines Terminal 1 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in the late 1980s, travelers coming or going from one of the world’s greatest architectural cities made a quotidian trudge through a boring portal. Jahn replaced that grim trajectory with a sensually thrilling explosion of light, sound and excitement(Snip) born near Nuremberg, Germany, in 1940 and arrived in Chicago in 1966 to study at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He didn’t formally graduate but would go on to play a central role in his home city’s singular architectural story.
Jahn, who was 81 and died Saturday from injuries suffered in a cycling accident outside west suburban
The opinion editor of the Northwestern University’s student newspaper recently published an article asserting that White people walk awkwardly on sidewalks because of their internalized racism. (Snip)
Allen then asserted that “the formal rules of Jim Crow were accompanied by a set of informal ones that governed the way Black people approached White people in public space and vice versa.” This social order “required Black people to yield to White people whenever possible” -- such as “stepping off the sidewalk when a White person was walking past.”
Haiti has one of the lowest death rates from COVID-19 in the world.
As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. The Caribbean nation, which often struggles with infectious diseases, has a COVID-19 death rate of just 22 per million. In the U.S. the COVID-19 death rate is 1,800 per million, and in parts of Europe. the fatality rate is approaching 3,000 deaths per million.(Snip)"Because COVID did not impact us as badly," she says, "people don't think it [the vaccine] is worth it actually."
Troubled by what leaders say is a lack of a central plan, the Chicago Teachers Union wants the Board of Education to set a goal for vaccinating students 16 and over before the start of the new school year.
CTU President Jesse Sharkey told the board Wednesday that while he is “not an epidemiologist or public health expert,” it is critical that the school board establish a targeted student vaccine benchmark.(Snip)Establishing a targeted student vaccine goal might also be tricky, as unlike standard childhood immunizations that are mandated and tracked by the Illinois Department of Public Health, the COVID-19 vaccine for those 16 and over, while recommended, remains optional
CHICAGO - An Elmhurst woman whose mother is in grave condition with COVID-19 says a local hospital is refusing to treat her mom with a specific drug, despite a judge's order to do so. "She might pass away within hours," (Snip) Fype hired Buffalo, NY-based attorneys Ralph Lorigo and Jon Minear, who have successfully fought for other COVID patients wanting prescriptions for ivermectin.
This week, they secured a court order from a judge in DuPage County, ordering Edward-Elmhurst Hospital to administer ivermectin to Nurije Fype.
But Fype and her legal team say the hospital didn't budge and continues to refuse to give her mother the drug.
If you take Uber and Lyft, you’ve probably realized some higher fares and longer wait times. Across the Chicago area, viewers have reported extreme price surges during all hours of the day.
Some receipts sent to NBC 5 show a more than $50 price tag for a 2.5-mile ride. A trip from Lake View East to near downtown Chicago shows rates pushing $30. (Snip) The Independent Drivers Guild of Chicago blames the higher prices on less drivers on the road.
Organizer Kevin Nelson said recent carjackings and COVID-19 have contributed to a lack of drivers willing to take the risk.
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The vote in the House over whether to create a “January 6th Commission” has ended. The bill passed, which is expected given who runs the chamber. What wasn’t as expected (or perhaps it was?) is that 35 Republicans joined hands with their Democrat colleagues, agreeing to walk headlong into a partisan buzzsaw.
This per The Daily Caller.
The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would create a bipartisan, 9/11-style commission into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, with dozens of Republicans joining Democrats in a rebuke of GOP leadership.
The bill passed 252 to 175 with support from 35 Republicans, even though top GOP leaders opposed it and
Barack Obama admits the possibility that UFOs with greater maneuverability and speed than anything in the US military exist must be taken seriously.Speaking on The Late Late Show with James Cordon Monday night, Obama said he had viewed footage of UFOs harassing US military targets which had gone viral recently. 'What is true... is that there's footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are.'We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory… they did not have an easily explainable pattern,' he said.
President Joe Biden mirrored former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's awkward "please clap" moment as his addressed the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduating class of 2021.
"You are a really dull class. Come on, man. Is the sun getting to you?" Biden said Wednesday in Connecticut after comparing the Coast Guard with the Navy. "All kidding aside, being here together is a victory in itself." [Tweet]
During his 25 minute-plus speech, Biden also admitted he needed "absolution" after his college years at the University of Delaware for "minor infractions like using a fire extinguisher to hose down an RA," referring to the abbreviation for residential adviser.
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President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday he expects “a significant de-escalation today on the path to a cease-fire.”
It was their fourth conversation since the violence erupted between Israel and Hamas nine days earlier, the worst fighting between the two sides since 2014.WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call Wednesday that he expects “a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire,” the White House said.
It was their fourth conversation since the violence erupted between Israel and Hamas nine days earlier.
New York's attorney general is now investigating the Trump Organization for criminal offenses, it emerged on Tuesday night.
The office, led by Letitia James, had been investigating the company for civil tax offenses since early 2019. The investigation has now escalated.
'We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the Organization is no longer purely civil in nature,' said Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the office.
'We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.'
It’s possible that Biden faked a basic task
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Thomas Lifson caught the fact that Biden made a joke that would have sent journalists screaming to their psychiatrists had President Trump made it: When they asked about Israel, he said he’d run them over. What someone noticed later is that, in addition to threatening violence to journalists who made him uncomfortable, Biden may have been faking that he was driving. Sharp-eyed observers noted that his steering wheel didn’t control the tires and believe that someone else was driving the car. (snip) In fact, if you watch slo-mo footage of the event, it appears very much as if Biden has a dummy steering wheel.
A four-year-old US boy was snatched from his bed and brutally murdered in an act of “evil”, police believe.
Cash Gernon had been sleeping in his crib when he was abducted and killed with an “edged weapon”, police say.
Gernon’s body was inexplicably left in the street about 800 meters from his southwest Dallas home and was found by a passerby.
The suspect in the murder, 18-year-old Darriynn Brown, was arrested and charged in relation to the death.
Fauci Wears Mask Outside Two
Days In A Row, Despite Telling Vaccinated
People To ‘Put Aside Your Mask’ 28 replies
Days In A Row, Despite Telling Vaccinated
People To ‘Put Aside Your Mask’ 28 replies
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has worn a mask outside two days in a row despite being vaccinated against COVID-19 and telling Americans they can lose their masks after getting their shots.
Fauci recently told Americans they could ditch facial coverings after getting vaccinated against COVID-19 and has been vaccinated since January.
However, the NIAID director has been caught rocking a face mask outside the past two days, even though he told vaccinated people himself that they no longer need to wear masks outside.
A Wednesday morning police chase in Florida’s Broward County ended with five juveniles in custody and several others injured, according to authorities and shocking video.
Police were called shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday for a report of a Fort Lauderdale home being burglarized while people were inside. According to the caller, the suspects were trying to steal a car from the garage of the home, police said.
They got away, but not before police were provided with a description of their vehicle. When cops caught up to the getaway car and tried to pull it over, the suspects refused and a police chase ensued, authorities said.
UPDATE: Netanyahu says he is "determined" to continue operations against Hamas until Israeli's goal is met.
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"I have just come from the IDF operational command center; it is very impressive. With every passing day we are striking at more of the terrorist organizations' capabilities, targeting more senior commanders, toppling more terrorist buildings and hitting more weaponry stockpiles.***Original post***
President Joe Biden is calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "de-escalate" with Hamas terrorists in Gaza as the Iranian backed organization continues its attacks on innocent civilians.
Bill Gates attended a 2013 meeting in Strasbourg with Jeffrey Epstein at the home of the then chairman of Norway's Nobel Committee, it has been claimed, amid comments from ex-staffers who say the Microsoft founder turned a blind eye to Epstein's reputation because he thought he could help him get the Nobel Peace Prize.
I’ve shied away from reporting on events in Maricopa because it would require more hours than I have in a day to track intelligently the back-and-forth in that recount. My touchstone there is the fact that the Democrats’ and NeverTrumpers’ ferocious efforts to stop the count strike me as the actions of people with something to hide. (snip) Events in a small town in New Hampshire, though, are more interesting because a low-key audit may reveal serious election anomalies harming Republicans.
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I know why politicians cling to the masks but I don't understand why others are choosing to live in fear.