IL Peas---I'm proud of us!! Covid Related

Also in IL. Glad our numbers are so much lower than other state's. I'm nervous people are getting complacent though. I had neighbors with a multi-family party on one side of me (no masks or distancing, maybe 12-15 people total) and teens hanging out (no masks or distancing) down the street. My kids and next door neighbor kids play together (masked) outside only. My son plays with two other boys (brothers), also masked and outside only. They really don't even complain anymore, so I don't know why it's so darn hard for grownups elsewhere...

I haven't eaten inside (don't see a need to right now). I've been to Target - very clean and usually fairly empty - and the grocery store (more crowded and could be better distancing). I find that traffic has picked up though. PLEASE Illinois, let's stick with it!

Illinois cases in downstate is increasing. Chicago area decreasing.... see the map of Illinois in this link. link
My family was out bar hopping today in Southern Illinois, no masks.. but looked like social distancing and not many people. Hope things keep steady there.

We are in the NE suburbs and while the infection rate is low (we are red because of proximity to Chicago) people here, for the most part, are pretty serious about masks and social distance. There are always covidiots but fortunately not everywhere. We did have a local SpEd teacher arrested for spitting on someone in Costco after she yelled she had Covid. UGH.

Apparently reason is political. Who knew. Im

Fellow Illinois resident here...I am so thankful to be seeing pretty good compliance here in my neck of the woods too.

I live in the same county as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, so we seem to have a robust, science based approach with a very involved public health district. The majority of people that I see out at the grocery store are wearing masks and at least attempting social distancing. There are still entitled idiots (the parents in my town who thought that it was a great idea to cram 40 teenagers in a basement for a "special prom," resulting in over 30 cases and several local businesses closed for cleaning) but we have access to free testing for everyone, even if non-symptomatic, and rigorous contact tracing which seems to be squashing bigger outbreaks (fingers crossed). I am hopeful that watching other areas of the country will re-affirm to everyone that science and caution are the way to continue battling this pandemic.

I'm in Illinois, too. And grateful. I'm still nervous as hell to go back to school.

But it could be worse!

lake county.  I just looked at a general map.

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I’m in Chicago, and some of us are pleasantly surprised our numbers are decreasing.

I see people without masks all the time (if I leave the house I’m mostly in Lincoln Park/Lakeview/Lincoln Square), but not many and mostly only outdoors. I see people getting together in small groups with close friends but not strangers, and not big groups.

Yes, I give them high marks for their handling of the pandemic. Sure, there are criticisms by local media over one thing or another, but I just shrug them off. We elected leaders, not a pope.

I'm in Springfield, and my son lives in a small town farther south close to the Indiana border. I see many masks and social distancing while I'm out and about. Our work was deemed 'essential' so I have thankfully had a job throughout this time. My company has upped cleaning. Before they upped the cleaning, I had a ritual of coming in, wiping down EVERYTHING in the office before my coworker got here. I'm feeling more comfortable not doing that as often right now.

I'm not going to a lot of places, but I have put my house up for sale and bought another one. When I have showings, I wipe all the door handles, knobs, light switches, etc down...then do the same when the showing is over.

I have friends that for them, life is back to normal. I'm not there yet, and have a lot of anxiety whenever I'm even asked to go to a party, ie family. So I bow out.

My son, ugh. First of all, he's 20 so he's going to live forever...and his work was deemed essential but he was alone on a tractor for 16 hours a day during the worst of it. If he had to be somewhere, I was happy it was there. He poo poo's the masks, but wears them. He knows I take it seriously because when there was a 'scare' at my work I wouldn't even let him in my house for over two weeks, just to make sure.

I am finding that, when I visited him (1 time), people in the smaller towns, rural areas are NOT social distancing, and NOT wearing masks. I don't mean to stereotype, it's just my observation.

And my sister and brother in law, both of whom have health issues, were one of the first to go to a sit down restaurant in Indiana when it opened up. To OLIVE GARDEN. OLIVE GARDEN. I laughed because if I was going to get sick, it wouldn't be over Olive Garden

I have NEVER been a fan of Pritzker, but my respect for him has grown throughout this. He seems to have been on top of it from day one, and because of that, our hospitals were NOT overrun...but now they are laying people off because no one is having 'elective' surgeries that keep them in business. So there's the economic fall out of it all. Strange times and I feel we're in the 'new normal' and it's going to be one of those milestones as 'before' and 'after' pandemic that we'll use.

Sweet fancy Moses, I am NOT making a will so I can go eat at the Olive Garden! 😂😂😂😂😂

I'm in NE Illinois. We have a mix here of people taking it seriously and people who don't. But I was happy to see the last time I had to go to the grocery store, everyone had a mask on. Even though a few wore them under their nose.

My neighborhood gave up on keeping their kids apart a month ago. I see them all the time out and about in groups. No masks, no social distancing.

I"m in a rural part of Illinois (Ogle County) and the small towns around me are just done. Hardly anyone wants to wear a mask - it is business as usual. Lots of arguing with stores who are requiring masks. Suddenly everyone in my town has a breathing condition and can't wear one. Sigh. (I actually DO have a serious breathing condition, but I wear one anyway if I need to go out). Starting to see the numbers go up because of it in our area and stores being shut down by the health department to have everyone test and the stores deep cleaned. But apparently, according to many on our town's facebook page, it is still just a hoax.

👆🏻This 100%. In the suburban areas here around Indy things look pretty good. But get 30 minutes away and it is like a different world. We also have a lake house up state and I have no desire to go back this summer. The willful ignorance of my fellow Hoosiers leaves me little faith in humanity.  I am so sick and tired of all of the self appointed constitutional scholars with their opinions about wearing masks and people who have zero understanding of how this virus is spread and what that their personal responsibility is to prevent the spread. I saw another city here mandated masks today and actually called those who refuse to wear them in public a public nuisance. I couldn’t agree more.