Chicago City Wire

During a recent press conference at the United Center mass vaccination site, radio personality Amy Jacobson asked Gov. J.B. Pritzker when he would order flags to be raised to full-staff.

“When are you going to be raising it, because now you know we have five COVID deaths yesterday so that was good news,” Jacobson said. “Our last positivity rate is below 3%. What’s the metrics that you’re using in order to raise the flag?”

In April, the governor directed all persons "or entities covered by the Illinois Flag Display Act are to fly the flags at half-staff in honor and remembrance of all who have perished from COVID-19 in the Land of Lincoln.”

Jacobson also told Pritzker that “It’s almost been a year since the flag has been at half-staff and, you know, when we were kids we didn’t have cell phones the Internet [to know] when somebody significant passed away when the flag was lowered.”

“This pandemic is not over yet,” he said, the Prairie State Wire reported. “We’re going to be in this for months. For months. And we don’t know how long the vaccines last.”

“We need to continue to worry about the variants that are here now, although the most dangerous ones seem to be covered by the vaccinations that we have available.”

“I want to make sure, whether it’s a flag, or in some other ways, that we do remind people that this pandemic is not over yet,” he answered.