Just so sick of IL being an island of sanity in the sea of insanity!
I live in the north part of the Metro East of St Louis. St Louis city and county are trying to stem the infections, but the rest of eastern MO is crazy! So today I hear this piece on NPR! St Charles County voting officials are going to play a game with people's lives! (St Charles County is on the north side of St Louis County and bordered by the Mississippi.)
https://www.kbia.org/post/st-charles-county-elections-officials-won-t-force-voters-or-judges-wear-masks#stream/0
<snip> “When a voter says something to you about not wearing a face mask or not wearing it correctly. Please put it on properly,” the memo states. “You may act surprised that you don't have a face mask on properly and then apologize as you put the mask on. Wear your mask correctly until the voter leaves the polling place. Please do this every time a voter says something to you.” <snip>
As we are all aware, senior citizens are the majority of poll workers. Things like this just smack of active genocide!
Gov. Pritzker has had to back this area off of reopening, taking us back a phase. It is precisely because of this kind of thing across the river. There is a lot of travel both ways across the Mississippi.
I'm so mad right now I don't even have the words to express it. 
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welcome to the new reality, the cleavage is too great
