Dr. Ngozi Ezike will be joining the Governor J.B. Pritzker for a presser at 2:30 p.m. at the Thompson Center.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday will issue a mask mandate for preschool through high school students and staff statewide and a vaccine mandate for state employees in prisons, veterans homes and other congregate settings as Illinois tries to blunt a fourth spike of the coronavirus pandemic, sources said.
As the fall semester approaches, school boards across the state have grappled with the decision of whether to require masks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week issued new guidelines including a recommendation that everyone wear masks in schools, regardless of vaccination status.
Pritzker, who’s made his handling of the pandemic central to his reelection bid next year, is stopping short of requiring all state workers to get vaccinated but will mandate it in settings where people are in the direct care of the state, including prisons, juvenile detention facilities and veterans homes.
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Here we go…more authoritarianism/communism. As the deified Dr. “Gain of Function” Fauci said in 2020, “the typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material”. There’s never been a double-blind study done to measure the efficacy of these masks. Our rulers don’t follow the science, they make proclamations as if they’re God. We’re not going to put our children in masks that don’t work. Nobody has enough N95 masks and doubtful parents would want to completely asphyxiate their children in one of those anyway.