60s pop icon ronnie spector has died. her family said she died after a brief battle with cancer. she was 78. they are sending a wave of medical teams to help six states overwhelmed in hospital clinics. ohio, coney island in brooklyn, rhode island hospital in providence, henry ford hospital outside detroit, university of nem new mexico hospital in albuquerque and they will depress overwhelmed hospitals and free up health care providers for other lifesaving care. jim justice is not doing well. that s how his chief of staff describes the governor s condition after justice tested positive for covid on tuesday and started receiving treatment at home. brian abraham told the west virginia gazette mail the
back against any sort of mandate. right now that showdown is playing out in chicago. in august mayor lori lightfoot announced that all city workers, all of them, need to be vaccinated by october 15th. that was back in august. gave them some time. that happens to be today. the city s police union, which is the second largest municipal police union in the country, is refusing to comply. just so you understand the context of how all this is playing out, the union s former president, who used to be the head of this union, just died of covid on tuesday. his successor, the current head of the union, initially responded to the mayor s mandate saying, and i am quoting here directly, we re in america, goddamn it. we don t want on forced to do anything. period. this ain t nazi expletive germany where they say step into the expletive showers, the pills won t hurt you. what the expletive. that s right.
this is all true. we fact checked this. the president of the chicago police union explicitly compared vaccine mandates to nazi death camps and his predecessor died of covid on tuesday. the current union president, the one who said it was like nazi germany, was on fox news this morning pushing chicago police to reject the mandate. okay. so what are your police officers saying? how many of them are vaccinated or choosing not to? the numbers we have are probably around half are not. we had a meeting the other night and our lodge had never been more filled with members. they are literally engaged in this fight going forward. they were willing to go into a no pay status at midnight tonight and get sent home. so according to the police union only half of the city s police force is vaccinated, which is way behind the 63% of eligible people in illinois who are fully vaccinated. and again, they became eligible much faster than others. just a few hours ago a judge issued a temporary restra