re: DaDestroya don't care - Masks for everyone no matter what JBE says! No bullying!!!

This has been the tactic for Pritzker here in Illinois as well. He will give no numerical metric at which the indoor mask mandate goes away. Says they will continue to monitor and follow CDC guidance.

It's 100% political so he can hold onto this power and focus on whatever he wants which no one else knows.

He's also kept his emergency powers going for over 600 straight days at this point.

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Illinois has been ruled by executive order since early March 2020, with Gov. J.B. Pritzker reissuing statewide COVID-19 disaster proclamations every 30 days. On Aug. 20 he declared Illinois a disaster for the 20th time.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Aug. 20 issued his 20th statewide COVID-19 disaster proclamation, meaning by the end of this new proclamation he will have declared Illinois to be in a state of disaster for 559 consecutive days.

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It's a disaster alright.

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Pritzker had previously justified his retention of emergency powers as necessary in the absence of accessible COVID-19 vaccines for Illinoisans. He has argued they were still needed to provide and promote state vaccination efforts, even after the state reached his Phase 5, full reopening in June.

When pressed in a July 26 interview on what specific statistic the state would need to meet for him to relinquish his emergency powers, Pritzker responded in generalities.

“There’s always something that we need to be monitoring about this pandemic because as you’ve seen that even though we have vaccines available there is a good number of people in our population who are not yet vaccinated,” Pritzker told Illinois Capitol News.

“What’s important is to keep the people of Illinois healthy and safe, and that’s making sure people get vaccinated.”

Pritzker did not specify how many Illinoisans would have to get vaccinated for him to lift the state’s disaster status. Nor did Pritzker provide any specifics on when he would give up his emergency powers.

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Never gives a number because he doesn't know how soon it could be hit. Better to continue to make up the next reason you need emergency powers.