They put the guy back on the street.

“What we wanna know is, why would the state’s attorney allow a person who robbed a gun store be allowed to walk free to commit other crimes?” said attorney Frank Sommario. “If it is because he is schizophrenic, as is reported in the news, then why wasn’t he required to be electronically monitored while getting the necessary medical or psychological treatment?”

What Cook County needs is a functioning state’s attorney.

This UCLA school of medicine prof lays out his argument for which is an attractive conclusion:

Placing disproportionate focus on Covid-19 transmission in low-risk populations leads to unwise decisions that do more harm than good. A wiser investment would focus on protecting vulnerable populations, including older teachers, family members and essential employees, by directing testing and personal protective equipment to them and their close contacts. Early outpatient therapies for Covid-19 may also prevent serious illness in these populations, as described in a recent American Journal of Medicine article.

The CDC’s quarantine guidelines for healthy, low-risk students should be revisited in light of the outsize effect quarantines have on their educational experience—and the possibility of perpetual quarantining for exposed students if testing is performed frequently. University policies for Covid-19 prevention also have an edge of cruelty: Many of these administrators suspending students “caught” socializing would have been doing the same 30 or 40 years ago.

The point of life is living, and everyone is better off with policies that focus on protecting the most vulnerable populations. That doesn’t take universal rapid testing or never-ending mandates. It requires only abandoning fear, being sensible about who is targeted for testing and protections, expanding treatment capacity and therapies—and choosing to live with the virus, rather than to live for it.

Makes common sense.