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Knockknees posted:Chicago Department of public health and IDPH seem like they really have their poo poo together. Super transparent and seem like they are doing all the right things in regards to contact tracing, testing, monitoring, and school closures. Other states are a shitshow comparatively. Yeah, although I was a little surprised CDPH didn't staff anyone extra over the weekend/holiday last weekend (the 29th-2nd). I've had a nasty cold over the past week and a half, and since I'd traveled internationally to a non-hotspot I wanted to double check the testing rules early last week. I called the IDPH hotline and the woman said maybe but to check with CDPH on whether I should get tested. I called and they were closed for the weekend and Pulaski day. Ended up going to the doctor and he said it was probably just a normal cold, maybe flu but I was outside the tamiflu range so it didn't matter, and to rest and keep hydrated and call if I got a fever or shortness of breath. So far so good.
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Early voted, +1 for Sanders. Not sure why, but Chicago changed up their early voting machines. The old ones were easy to use for me. New ones are fine too, but it involves you printing out the ballot and then running it through a scanner. Seems a little silly to me.
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I usually early vote, but the thrill of voting on St. Patrick's day is tempting.
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KDdidit posted:I usually early vote, but the thrill of voting on St. Patrick's day is tempting. Get a mail ballot and fill it out and put it in the mail on St. Patrick's Day. Your vote will still be counted, and you'll get all the luck with none of the lines!
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WBEZ literally has a segment begging people not to vote for judges on St. Patrick’s day just because they have an Irish name.
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Hope WBEZ doesn't have any cases come before the honorable former Mr Phillip Spiwak. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/11/9/18469170/he-ran-for-judge-lost-changed-parties-took-irish-name-won-cook-county-race
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Illinois State University is extending spring break by a week, but then switching to e-learning until late April. Closing university housing, etc. - no students on campus for another month and a half or so.
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closing university housing is loving insane and it's loving infuriating all these schools are doing this.
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Dexo posted:closing university housing is loving insane and it's loving infuriating all these schools are doing this. I know the half+ of students paying for apartments are probably coming back, anyways.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/hannahmeisel/status/1237890297519955968 u of i keeping the housing open.
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Closing housing is ridiculous. Not every student can just pick up and move home, and they shouldn’t have to appeal to the university to not be made homeless with a week’s notice.
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Yeah shouldn't tenant rights apply or something that is ridiculous
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Northwestern is also keeping housing open but going remote till late April at least.
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Discussing with my dad last night about the election (even though its on the Nov ballot) and he kept bringing up a point on if the Graduated Income Tax Amendment were to past the IL constitution would be open to any change moving forward for some period of time. This doesn't make that much sense to me how one change allows for anything else to be change/proposed to be changed. Any truth to this?
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Digital Jedi posted:Discussing with my dad last night about the election (even though its on the Nov ballot) and he kept bringing up a point on if the Graduated Income Tax Amendment were to past the IL constitution would be open to any change moving forward for some period of time. This doesn't make that much sense to me how one change allows for anything else to be change/proposed to be changed. It would be open to any change in the same way that it was before in that the legislature would have to pass something and then we’d all have to vote on it.
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Perhaps it's from the perspective of "if we have enough votes to amend the IL constitution to add this tax, then logically there'd be enough support to add anything!
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Yea that's how I interpreted it. That if there's enough to change one they could try and change more. He made it sound like the constitution is 'locked' right now and if they vote yes and it 'opens' they could just change things at will. Maybe in some weird obscurant wording they could but not straight up change something not voted on.
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I think one of the options proposed for Fair Tax was to have a new Constitutional Convention but that's not the way they're doing it.
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Digital Jedi posted:Discussing with my dad last night about the election (even though its on the Nov ballot) and he kept bringing up a point on if the Graduated Income Tax Amendment were to past the IL constitution would be open to any change moving forward for some period of time. This doesn't make that much sense to me how one change allows for anything else to be change/proposed to be changed. My understanding is the tax rates are set by state statute, but you need to change the state constitution to be able to do anything that isn't a flat tax. So he's right in that passing the constitutional amendment means down the road the legislature could raise the bottom bracket rate to 10% or whatever, but they can already do that already by raising everyone's at once
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Pritzker and the State Superintendent are meeting right now to discuss closing schools in the state.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Pritzker and the State Superintendent are meeting right now to discuss closing schools in the state. Where are you seeing this? Last night he said they were remaining open.
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Oracle posted:Where are you seeing this? Last night he said they were remaining open. I've a hunch a lot of people were waiting for the weekend to start calling stuff for next week.
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Shere posted:I've a hunch a lot of people were waiting for the weekend to start calling stuff for next week. All Catholic schools run by the archdiocese in Cook and Lake are closed til further notice. God working from home is gonna be fun.
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I work for a ROE and our Supt sent out an email letting us know that this meeting was happening. Told us to prepare for schools closing.
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My company finally announced WFH through the end of March. I dunno if I am ready to be with my family 24/7! I love them and all but...
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Pritzker and the State Superintendent are meeting right now to discuss closing schools in the state. Maybe I'm being naive, but is there really that much of a threat in the rural counties? Seems like it would make more sense to just close the handful of counties with urban/suburban areas that would be most at risk.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Maybe I'm being naive, but is there really that much of a threat in the rural counties? Seems like it would make more sense to just close the handful of counties with urban/suburban areas that would be most at risk. its already community spread in mchenry to some teenager who has no travel contacts ,so yeah edit like this: https://twitter.com/charlesbethea/status/1238504984918065155 mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Mar 13, 2020 |
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Bird in a Blender posted:Maybe I'm being naive, but is there really that much of a threat in the rural counties? Seems like it would make more sense to just close the handful of counties with urban/suburban areas that would be most at risk. I had to cancel a trip up north to the wastelands of Rockford to see my grandparents and parents. Who I was debating not going anyway for their health concerns in case I had it. That decision was made easier when my wife told me that she would likely have to self Quarantine from work for 2 weeks burning all of her sick and vacation time because of how close to Chicago she'd be going. As per the hospitals(her job) company policy. All it takes is one person. To go visit someone make a stop in a gas station etc etc.
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Dexo posted:I had to cancel a trip up north to the wastelands of Rockford to see my grandparents and parents. Who I was debating not going anyway for their health concerns in case I had it. It's bullshit that they're making her use PTO. Which I'm sure you realize but I wanted to say.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Maybe I'm being naive, but is there really that much of a threat in the rural counties? Seems like it would make more sense to just close the handful of counties with urban/suburban areas that would be most at risk. In terms of spread maybe not but if an elderly person two hours away from the nearest hospital gets seriously ill they’re probably hosed.
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Closing university housing is hard but a good and necessary thing.
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gently caress. I understand, but still, I don't want to see my family THAT much!
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There was some confusion. First day back is the 31st for a full two weeks. Also, superintendents were told to be prepared for going longer than the two weeks if the situation in state has gotten worse.
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dwarf74 posted:gently caress. Yeah this is going to be brutal lol Bizarro Kanyon posted:There was some confusion. First day back is the 31st for a full two weeks. This thing isn't expected to peak until May.
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Do retail next. I already went two months without a paycheck thanks to surgery, what's another month 
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limp_cheese posted:Holy shitballs. Are grocery stores next? Food stores aren't even closed in Italy
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