Posted on 05/10/2020 5:43:44 PM PDT by Beave Meister
As Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker tries to meet goals for daily COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, hes not banking on any help from the federal government, he said Sunday on CNNs State of the Union with Jake Tapper.
I have not been counting on the White House because there have been too many situations in which theyve made promises not delivered, Pritzker said. Very recently they promised a lot of swabs. Theyre supposed to arrive today, the first shipment of those. Im looking forward to that. But what were doing is were going it alone, as the White House has left all the states to do.
The governors remarks came hours before the Illinois Department of Public Health announced 1,656 new known COVID-19 cases and 57 additional deaths linked to the coronavirus.
Thats fewer than Saturday, when the state reported 2,325 new known cases and 111 more deaths, and Friday, which saw 2,887 cases and 130 deaths reported.
But also down is the number of tests processed over the past day. In a 24-hour period ending Sunday, labs processed 13,653 tests, according to the health department. For Saturday, that number was 16,617 specimens. On Friday, the state announced a record 20,671 processed over the preceding 24 hours.
Illinois officials will continue to increase testing on their own, and are modeling contact tracing practices after Massachusetts approach, Pritzker said on CNN.
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Uh, yeah. Fidiot!
The goal was “flatten the curve”. Mission accomplished. Now get back to work.
The lockdown was never intended to out-wait the end of the virus.
Why does the Fed Gov have to provide swabs?
He doesn’t understand how Federalism works. Sadly, that means that few of my fellow Illinoisans understand it, because they voted for that gasbag.
I need to move. At least property prices are low right now.
For three and a half years, they called him a dictator...
These governors are playing politics. Do you think this asshole, Gov Cuomo, or Gov Newsom gives a shiite about deaths? If they did, theyd address drugs, homeless, and murders in Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.
They can lie all they want on the Sunday shows. Trump will set them straight at his upcoming events.
What a stupid POS. Just because your states health dept isnt/wasnt prepared doesn’t mean its the govts fault.
Fact is, Governors are in charge of their state. That’s why we are called the United States. If Trump forced his open plan they’d be calling him a dictator, fascist or whatever.
All I know is it wasn’t Trump plan but Cuomo’s to sent all those c19 into nursing homes.
Making it all politics eh?
Trump will win without Illinois.
Or, he could win Illinois, if people get sick of this Governor playing politics with a tragedy.
Same goes for every other blue state dem Governor.
The whole lot em, all of the scum bags.
I hate to say it but, Trump can use this politically too, hes kind of the master.
The truth is a powerful weapon.
Governor Creosote is a worthless pile of dung. Hes not making the decisions anyway. Madigan is.
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If you need President Dr. Trump to run your damn State, J.B., then step the hell down and let him.
If Trump ever gets to have a rally again, he is going to have fresh bag of hammers to pound red meat with.
Pritzker is a mere puppet of Mike Madigan, the real power in the state. The sole purpose of all of the covid bs is to extort billions from fedgov to cover their corruption. Harming Trump’s reelection is icing on the cake.
Every lefty in March was talking bout 2 weeks to #FlattenTheCurve, which turn in to 30 days to #SlowThe Spread now it turned into stay closed until we eradicate they virus to save granny.
Want help?
Stop being a SANCTUARY STATE.
Why not ask your Mafia to step up?
I hear they are good at squeezing people for cash.
I think Trump offered help to get Chicago’s gun slinging under control.
It was rebuked.
These governors are playing politics. Do you think this asshole, Gov Cuomo, or Gov Newsom gives a shiite about deaths? If they did, theyd address drugs, homeless, and murders in Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.
Yep this is true. To be honest, what Cuomo is doing to the elderly is planned extermination. He wins by getting rid of these people in 2 ways. 1 it lessens the medical financial burdon of the state to keep these people alive. 2. It gets rid of pensioners that just wont die! Its either that or he is seriously retarded.
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