Road to recovery from pandemic won't be smooth - Woodstock Independent

You didn’t think this would be easy, did you – like a wide-open layup, a chip-shot field goal, a can of corn to left field, a gimme putt?

Despite the skewed thinking of hopeful politicians, the coronavirus was not going to just magically disappear.

And wishing won’t make it so.

Minimizing COVID-19 won’t help, either.

When McHenry County was in the final days of Phase 3 of the governor’s Restore Illinois plan, the imminent move to Phase 4 made the final move to Phase 5 – full recovery – seem like a mere formality. It is not.

And the more people fight it, the longer we will have to wait.

State officials went on Twitter last week to dispel social media rumors about likely COVID-19 actions that would move us backward. Tweets from Gov. Pritzker’s chief of staff and press secretary assured the public that the governor’s office had no plans for immediate orders to force schools to conduct remote-only instruction this fall or to shut down – again – in-person dining at restaurants and bars.

Earlier in the week, the governor had defined parameters for moving certain industries backward in the recovery play if increases in certain virus metrics continued, though none of the state’s 11 regions had regressed to any of the metrics as of Friday.
That doesn’t mean it won’t happen.

Late last week, all of the numbers – COVID-19 hospitalizations, ICU patients, and patients on ventilators – were near their lows for the pandemic. Some people might argue that should allow Illinois to join states such as Florida and Texas in throwing open the doors to … no, wait; Florida and Texas have re-enacted restrictions after they ignored public health officials, leading to a surge in new cases.

That’s why Illinois officials continue to warn that social distancing, wearing face coverings, and washing hands frequently are still needed to prevent a wider spread.
This is no time to spike the football. If scientists are right, we haven’t even crossed the 50-yard line yet.

Let’s follow their playbook to make sure we stay in the game.

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