Mayor Lightfoot says she has COVID-19

[brooklynite]

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

As Chicago weathers an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 cases, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Tuesday she has tested positive for the virus.

Lightfoot, whose tumultuous first term has been defined by her pandemic response, said in a statement she tested positive earlier Tuesday.

“I am experiencing cold-like symptoms but otherwise feel fine which I credit to being vaccinated and boosted,” she said in a written statement.

“I will continue to work from home while following the CDC guidelines for isolation,” she said. “This is an urgent reminder for folks to get vaccinated and boosted as it’s the only way to beat this pandemic.”

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/1/11/22878882/mayor-lori-lightfoot-covid-19-coronavirus-surge-city-hall-chicago

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. Can Chicago force her to go to work? Or is just teachers that have to live with the fear of

being infected on the job?

Parents that demand teachers take their life on the roulette table of COVID are also voters!

[OneCrazyDiamond]

8. In California

Nurses can still work if positive and asymptomatic, but 35% of California hospitals reported experiencing critical staffing shortages.

[Yandex]

2. Sadly, vaxes can't prevent infection or transmission

There seems to be some evidence, not conclusive yet, that Omicron may be more easily caught by those who are vaxxed.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-makes-bidens-vaccine-mandates-obsolete-covid-healthcare-osha-evidence-supreme-court-11641760009?st=wm9kr5bv8ia86tl&reflink=article_copyURL_share

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Important: That's an opinion piece, not a news piece.

I was looking at that just a few minutes ago.

Full disclosure:

Luc Montagnier ... is a French virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

OPINION | COMMENTARY

Omicron Makes Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Obsolete

There is no evidence so far that vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading variant.

By Luc Montagnier and Jed Rubenfeld

Jan. 9, 2022 5:20 pm ET

Federal courts considering the Biden administration’s vaccination mandates—including the Supreme Court at Friday’s oral argument—have focused on administrative-law issues. The decrees raise constitutional issues as well. But there’s a simpler reason the justices should stay these mandates: the rise of the Omicron variant.

It would be irrational, legally indefensible and contrary to the public interest for government to mandate vaccines absent any evidence that the vaccines are effective in stopping the spread of the pathogen they target. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening here.

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[Yandex]

4. Huh? That's why I said: "Not conclusive" n/t

[Sapient Donkey]

13. Even if that does turn out to be the case

The fact still remains that the majority of people hospitalized are unvaccinated. Since so many people are getting it, that's putting a strain on our healthcare system. That doesn't just affect the unvaccinated. Perhaps that could be seen as moving the goal posts, but it's something that need to be considered.

Also, those two reports cited seems to go against everything I've read (recent) about the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated getting infected. But even those studies do turn out to be a sign of what is to come, that doesn't change the fact that the unvaccinated are using up more resources because they are being hospitalized at a much higher rate. So, when discussing mandates, that needs to be taken into account when weighing the costs/benefits.

[Yandex]

14. Heathcare is a human right in any case n/t

[Sapient Donkey]

16. I am not in favor of ideas that deny healthcare to the unvaxed

If that was the impression I gave, that wasn’t my intent.

[Orrex]

15. Tell that to polio and smallpox

You've posted an opinion piece in a Rightwing-friendly rag with an established pro-business/anti-Biden agenda.

I'll need something a little more objective, thanks.

[XanaDUer2]

5. Irony nt

[questionseverything]

6. Two days before symptoms is when a person is most contagious

So while negotiating she gave others the virus who then possibly took it home to toddlers too young to be vaccinated but never fear the wheels of commerce grind on

[Hekate]

9. So if she was entirely unaware, how is your putative outcome her fault? As soon as she became...

…aware, she went home and is staying there. So — she’s evil because she caught it? She’s evil because she’s — what?

[questionseverything]

10. First of all, I didn't say "evil", you did

While I realize it’s a fine line to balance, right now many politicians including ms lightfoot seem to be putting the economy over public health

We need to develop a hybrid system so students can flow from in school to remote learning seamlessly

As an example, a couple years ago, pre covid, if one of my kids had a stuffy nose, we would probably send them and see if they could tough it out( especially if it was a test day). Now though the same stuffy nose really should keep them at home.
That would be an easier decision if a hybrid remote learning was in place so they didn’t miss as much.

[riversedge]

7. oh my. I hope she takes good care of herself. She needs rest also and not working from

home.

[Sancho]

11. How would she know? Do they test city employees? ...

... if so, then provide the same tests to the schools!

[SunSeeker]

12. The article says she has symptoms.

That usually gives people some knowledge that they might have covid, and prompts them to get tested.