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Family visits to nursing homes in Illinois were limited during peak COVID-19 transmission periods in 2020 and 2021 and some are looking to make sure that doesn’t happen again, even if there is a pandemic.
The visitation prohibitions frustrated relatives and friends who were kept away from loved ones at nursing homes and long-term care facilities for weeks and even months. To prevent future Illinois governors from ever enacting such a ban again, Illinois Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie, R-Hawthorn Woods, drafted Senate Bill 1405 . The measure passed the Illinois Senate unanimously last month and is expected to pass the Illinois House this spring.
State Sen. Dave Syverson, R-Cherry Valley, a co-sponsor of the bill, said the ban defied common sense – even when the pandemic was raging and vaccines were not available.
“A lot of families were angry and put out,” Syverson told The Center Square. “People should never have had to die alone when their family members wanted to be there with them.”
Syverson said people with cognitive disabilities and dementia suffered unnecessarily because they felt abandoned by their loved ones. Residents wound up dying alone – cut off from the presence and consolation of their closest life companions.
“You had seniors who saw their families either every day or every week, and they could not understand why their family was not coming to visit them,” he said.
The state should not step in to keep people from being with their loved ones, Syverson said.
“That is inhumane,” Syverson said. “It never had to happen.”To Syverson, the ban on visitors never made sense.“There were employees going in and out,” he said. “There were vendors coming and going. But you could not have a loved one go in to see a family member – even when the person was dying.”People are still angry that […]
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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