From the beginning of this series, a year and a half ago, we noted, "The geographic area and population of Illinois are both similar to those in Sweden, and there are similarities of the Chicago and Stockholm metropolitan areas. But Springfield politicians are hazardous to your health."
As Outside the Beltway's James Joyner notes, "Long after most people returned to normal, public health agencies have given in."
In Illinois, that wasn't until the ukases, combined with corruption and punitive taxation, did a lot of damage. Wirepoints contributor Mark Glennon submits an accounting.
You didn’t need to be an epidemiologist to see, early in the pandemic, that many things weren’t making sense. Much of Illinois’ Covid policy wasn’t responsive to the evidence, and some of the data just didn’t add up or match the science supposedly behind it.Dan Mitchell calls attention to the internal migration the corona tyrants might have provoked. "Regarding [tax-motivated migration], there’s a must-read editorial in the Wall Street Journal about the ongoing exodus from fiscal hellholes such as Illinois, New York, and California."
At the national level there has been significant contrition and retrospective. The Center for Disease Control, as far back as August, admitted mistakes and announced a shake-up. The Washington Post wrote at the time that America was not ready for another pandemic. “The action needed to turn the lessons from the nation’s covid-19 response into reality must be an urgent priority, they said. “Preparedness means having everything in place the day before it is needed, and no one knows when that will be.” Scientists who disagreed with the establishment still speak up often.
Not in Illinois, despite its own obvious mistakes. In an interview this week with Capitol News Illinois about his emergency order now coming to an end, Gov. J.B. Pritzker reflected on how he and the state handled the pandemic. He expressed nothing but pride and not a word about any errors. Nor has anybody in his administration or the Illinois Department of Public Health ever said a word about any mistakes or indicated that any review has been undertaken in hopes of doing better next time.
Pritzker didn’t even acknowledge what was perhaps the biggest health policy mistake in American history – extended school shut downs.
In other words, there is no accountability at all.
But mistakes were made, and many were huge. Some errors jumped out at us early, so at Wirepoints we began devoting significant attention to the pandemic and writing about the mistakes as we saw them. Every one of our criticisms was eventually validated.
[Follow the link for] a list of mistakes we published earlier that Illinois itself owns, though fault is shared with the federal government on some.
Wirepoints have those receipts as well. The people who had the means to leave took their disposable income with them.
On a percentage basis, Illinois ranked 5th-worst for out-migration, with a net loss of 0.85 percent of its population. Big states New York and California fared worse, with losses of 1.38 percent and 0.98 percent of their populations, respectively.
Illinois’ $10.9 billion [adjusted gross income] losses were topped only by California and New York, which lost $29.1 billion and $24.5 billion in AGI, respectively.
The state is residually inhabited by poorer people, and the open border policies of the Jarrett regency are likely to reinforce that phenomenon.
The Illinoisans who fled in 2020 earned, on average, $44,100 more than the residents Illinois gained from other states. Outgoing residents earned $118,000, while incoming residents made just $74,000. That’s the biggest gap since at least 2000, based on Wirepoints’ analysis of the IRS data.A service called Worldometers has been keeping track of coronavirus infections and deaths, disaggregated in a number of ways. With local, state, and federal governments in the United States changing the way they count infections (and they might be rethinking how they classify deaths) I'm not sure how valid any numbers, even from a service consistently used from month to month, is.
The latest report from Sweden counts 2,708,137 infections, an increase of 3,171 over last month, and 24,183 deaths, a change of 195 from the preceding report.
The latest report from Illinois continues to report 4,127,625 infections and 41,866 deaths, meaning no change in figures reported by Illinois or Federal agencies for Worldometers to compile. That's as good a reason as any to discontinue these posts.
The most recent tally of vaccinations continues to report around 26.5 million doses of the various vaccines, initial course or the various boosters, or perhaps reformulations, administered as of today. The state also has modified its count of the scary variants, with the XBB 1.5 Omicron variant dominating the chart.
As Illinois collected taxes on the available adjusted gross income the governor trailed by 17,878.
At the third anniversary of the onset of corona tyranny, the governor trailed by 17,788.
At Valentine's Day, the governor trailed by 17,728.
At the National Day of Service, the governor trailed by 18,068.
Note the time series: a margin of terror that used to be growing by hundreds in a week has been growing only slowly. The details from the end of 2022 to the beginning of this reckoning in 2020 are on page 2.
2022 ...
At the end of the fall semester, the governor trailed by 19,204.
At Veterans Day, the governor trailed by 19,284.
At Columbus Day, the governor trailed by 19,436.
As Oktoberfest season began, the governor trailed by 19,467.
At the start of the academic year, the governor trailed by 19,611.
At Bastille Day, the governor trailed by 19,567.
At Flag Day, the governor trailed by 19,295.
At Syttende Mai, the governor trailed by 19,149.
At Patriots Day, the governor trailed by 19,243.
At St. Patrick's Day, the governor trailed by 19,580.
At Valentine's Day, the governor trailed by 19,533.
At the National Day of Service, the governor trailed by 17,062.
2021 ...
At Beethoven's birthday, the governor trailed by 14,796.
At Veterans Day, the governor trailed by 13,981.
At Leif Erikson Day, the governor trailed by 13,101.
At the start of the professional football season, the governor trailed by 12,307.
At Roller Coaster Day, the governor trailed by 11,502.
As of 7 June, 10,887.
As of 1 June, 10,810.
As of 24 May, 10,645.
As of 17 May, 10,520.
As of 10 May, 10,417.
As of 3 May, 10,310.
As of 26 April, 10,216.
As of 19 April, 10,167.
As of 12 April, 10,169.
As of 5 April, 10,167.
As of 29 March, 10,125.
As of 22 March, 10.095.
As of 15 March, 10.070.
As of 8 March, 10,017.
As of 1 March, 9,933.
As of 22 February, 9,857.
As of 15 February, 9,693.
As of 8 February, 9,623.
As of 1 February, 9,662.
As of 25 January, 9,739.
As of 18 January, 9,727.
As of 11 January, 9, 860.
As of 4 January, 9,595.
2020 ...
As of 28 December, 9,057.
As of 21 December, 8,414.
As of 14 December, 7,815.
As of 7 December, 7,049.
As of 30 November, 6,201.
As of 23 November, 5,706.
As of 16 November, 5,040.
As of 9 November, 4,516.
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