Are we far past time to have independent media in Chicago?

Well, the simple answer to your question, John, is yes.

I think that ship sailed a while ago.

You're not going to get independent media.

What you're going to get is you're going to get outlets like yours that will, you know, voice a reasonable counter to what's going on.

I think this endorsement is further evidence that Illinois is not just a blue state, it's a deep blue state.

And, you know, we just need a lot of people who can comment.

And I... think we've we've seen the media p personalities and you know paul ballas had a piece uh on john cast news and dr are you franklin you had a piece uh and spiked about this but this whole nicole hannah jones uh situation and since cory you wrote a piece about it do you want to set the table on this because yeah i think this is is highly enlightening

What was your experience raising some of these questions or debating some of the prescribed mitigations, some of the proposed and ultimately implemented mandates during COVID with your colleagues in the medical field? It's always interesting to get people's personal perspective on what they went through as maybe they deviated from the orthodoxy that was being advocated from on high.

You know, when you talk about the mitigation and stuff like the lockdown, there's an element to that that I'm willing to give something of a pass to the medical and the political communities because of, at least in the first two years, how little we knew.

But they were clearly not interested enough, and Fauci even said this in a comment, they were clearly not interested enough early on In the economic and the social consequences of it, in the school consequences of it, they should have had experts from economics, from the education community who are outside the vested interest to talk about those things.

So, you know, lockdown, they sort of adopted the China policy.

And that's one of the problems.

Were we correct in adopting the China policy? I think in retrospect, you can see that we weren't.

But again, some of that is, well, we didn't have that information.

I mean, that to me is a category of reckoning unto itself.