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Pritzker to require 70% of elderly get vaccines before lifting more COVID-19 restrictions
Center Square ^ | 3/18/21 | Cole Lauterbach

Posted on 03/18/2021 3:37:31 PM PDT by AT7Saluki

Before Illinois residents can return to what Gov. J.B. Pritzker calls a “new normal,” he says 7-in-10 residents 65 and older must get a COVID-19 vaccination.

Pritzker appeared in Chicago on Thursday to announce the requirements the state must meet before he will remove his restrictions on businesses and crowd capacities.

“It’s time to cautiously move toward normalcy,” he said. “It’s imperative that we do so in a way that maintains all the progress we’ve made to date.”

Notably, Pritzker said 70% of the state’s 65 and older residents must get vaccinated.

“I’m optimistic about reaching that milestone because, as of this morning, that number is 58%,” he said.

In a release, his office said 28 days of low viral spread and other metrics must follow that vaccination threshold before he would begin to “turn the dial” toward his final “Phase 5” mitigations.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecentersquare.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirusvaccine; covid; elderly; govpritzker; illinois; lockdown; pritzker; vaccine
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To: AT7Saluki

So, are neighbors supposed to go threaten elderly neighbors for not getting the vaccine.

Or, how to have the government turn neighbor against neighbor or else the government will penalize everyone.

Or, how little dictators show themselves.


21 posted on 03/18/2021 3:53:24 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: SaveFerris

One of my TOP 10 all-time favorites, Ferris. I’ve watched it at least 10 times.


22 posted on 03/18/2021 3:54:03 PM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: AT7Saluki
Once these communist scumbags get the taste of power & control, the are never going to let it go...

It will have to be pried from their cold & clammy dead hands...

There is close to zero possibility of getting out of their hands otherwise by other means...

23 posted on 03/18/2021 3:54:14 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: SaveFerris; \/\/ayne; All
GOOD ONE!!
24 posted on 03/18/2021 3:55:18 PM PDT by Fiddlstix
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To: SaveFerris

The DNC is more like the leftwing NAZI Socialists than Chinese Communists...but still has a lot of the CCP in their DNA.


25 posted on 03/18/2021 3:57:38 PM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: AT7Saluki

This of course gives he/she/it/whatever the bottom dweller currently posing as governor of the formerly great state of Illinois ample opportunity to delay and delay lifting more restrictions.

Always remember that math and liberals are arch enemies.


26 posted on 03/18/2021 3:57:53 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: AT7Saluki

I’ll be part of the 30%, which I hope is closer to 70% before it is all wrote.


27 posted on 03/18/2021 3:58:02 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: PGalt

Probably the same here. At least.

I like how they had “Chairman Andropov” in charge of the KGB.


28 posted on 03/18/2021 3:59:05 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: newfreep

They certainly act like it


29 posted on 03/18/2021 3:59:41 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: AT7Saluki

At least he has publicly set a benchmark.

Can’t say that for Tommie (”the Commie”) Wolf in PA.


30 posted on 03/18/2021 3:59:56 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: AT7Saluki

A problem.

The Constitution forbids laws that are not applied equally.

This will end up in the courts very quickly.

The idea that all businesses will be shut down because a few old people will not get a vaccination is the plan of an idiot.


31 posted on 03/18/2021 4:00:52 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: Fiddlstix

Yeah, somebody posted it on a thread by Olog-hai. It’s quite appropriate.


32 posted on 03/18/2021 4:00:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: AT7Saluki

Makes no sense. Younger people who are vaccinated should not be held hostage to older people who are not.


33 posted on 03/18/2021 4:03:13 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam, )
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To: AT7Saluki

It’s the easiest way to kill off the population that’s draining the states’ coffers.


34 posted on 03/18/2021 4:03:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.)
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To: PGalt; SaveFerris

My kids were sitting on the couch talking when I saw this movie coming on. I said you have to watch it. They said they would watch a little bit of it. They thought it was too old. 10 minutes in I couldn’t have dragged them away.


35 posted on 03/18/2021 4:06:02 PM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: AT7Saluki

My body, my choice. Saw that someplace.


36 posted on 03/18/2021 4:08:51 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: AT7Saluki

I wonder if the elderly who do not want to get the jab could just donate the amount of profit from one jab to Pritzkers re-election campaign and get credit for the shot so the state could re-open?


37 posted on 03/18/2021 4:10:52 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: AT7Saluki

The Circus Elephant Governor has successfully chased all Spring HS Sports into neighboring States - Baseball and Soccer teams have scheduled their games in Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri - great revenue for the other States.

Putzker doesn’t care about anyone except himself and power.


38 posted on 03/18/2021 4:12:37 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: alternatives?

It’s just so awesome.

I loved how they had “Red Flag” exercises in the beginning.

You can even see an F-111 parked on the ramp in one of the scenes.


39 posted on 03/18/2021 4:13:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hieronymus

It’s Illinois.

The ‘Pubs aren’t any better.

............................................

As a Canadian, do you enjoy being broad brushed?

If, so, here’s some more material to brush me with:

I’m a 75 year old retired U.A.W. member who is anti death penalty and have never voted for a democrat in my life.


40 posted on 03/18/2021 4:14:15 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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