I actually feel bad for Mr. Adler. Prenzler sets this guy up to be criticized for, "not being qualified" and then drops the hammer on him a few weeks later?
The article says Madison County is improving in the battle against COVID 19 but according to the Madison County Health Dept. this last weekend counts went up drastically.
Prenzler bailed on this man in my opinion and as you know, I've been skeptical before.
Posted by Wally Bunker on April 27, 2020, 9:34 pm, in reply to "This Time"
The Democrats would have criticized whoever Prenzler would have chosen, but of course they have extra venom for Adler because of his previous position. Adler bounced back from the shenanigans at the MESD, he isnt going to lose any sleep over this. Your concern for Mr. Adler is touching, but i think he will be just fine.
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Posted by opinionated on April 27, 2020, 9:52 pm, in reply to "Re: This Time"
It's not so much about him but about Prenzler dropping him like a hot rock when confronted. I wouldn't want to be treated like that.they did not fail, because they did what their country asked of them....
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Posted by Stephen Adler on April 27, 2020, 10:22 pm, in reply to "This Time"
OP The epidemic never reached pandemic levels in Madison County. Its a tragedy when anyone dies, but everyone (17 so far) who passed was over 50 so far; the majority (11) from one nursing home. Our efforts were relatively successful.
Republicans will say it's because we had good staff who worked hard. Democrats will say we were lucky. Adler will say it was some of both.
JB's disaster proclamation was thrown out in court today, but not for everyone. Presumably, in Illinois, disasters can only last 30 days, and even then, we have COVID-19 controlled to that of a bad flu season. We have plenty of medical assets (beds) available. The fire? Not out, but controlled, here anyway.
The economic ramifications of this will last far beyond the medical ones. I'm more pessimistic about that. My opinion is that if the testing was available, this would have been controlled almost immediately. Quarantine the nursing home; but not the neighborhood around it. All because the testing was unavailable. As testing improves, vaccines will become available, and this threat passes...this time anyway.
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Posted by Bluangel on April 27, 2020, 11:17 pm, in reply to "This Time"