Hospital System Implements Mask Mandate Across Illinois (and other BLUE states). By Jack Phillips (01/01/25)

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From the article:

A hospital system in Illinois this week issued a mandate that everyone entering its facilities must wear a mask due to “widespread respiratory illnesses” in the area.

“Starting Tuesday, December 31, all employees, patients and visitors at our hospitals are required to wear masks due to the widespread respiratory illnesses in our communities, including COVID-19, influenza and RSV,” said OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, based in Peoria, Illinois, in a statement posted on Facebook.

“Additionally, we are implementing a temporary visitor restriction: only two visitors (age 18+) per patient at a time. Thank you for your cooperation in keeping our community safe.”

It comes as Rush University Medical Center, based in Chicago, said in a statement that starting on Dec. 2, it will require “patients and visitors to wear hospital-approved masks when they are in clinical offices, waiting areas and patient registration.”

“The policy coincides with the respiratory virus season, when the spread of flu, RSV, and COVID-19 rises,” it wrote.

Other states:

• New Jersey Hospital Appears to Mandate Masks

• New York State Issues Mandate

• California Counties Mandate Masks

• Respiratory Virus Numbers Rising

ED NOTE 
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We need health freedom bills to protect us from this absurd situation. For example, see Health Freedom & Other Solutions for Idaho & Beyond at

Especially relevant subsections are:

• No Mandates, No Discrimination, No Adverse Actions, No Liability Waivers, No Vaccine Passports Or Digital Surveillance

• Globalist Organization Jurisdiction: No Jurisdiction In Idaho

Also, resurrect H493 (Gallagher/Lenney) Stop mask mandates by government: legislature.idaho.gov/s…

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