LAWMAKERS DEMAND PRITZKER ANSWER QUESTIONS ON COVID SHUTDOWNS
SPRINGFIELD - Restaurants across the state are being forced to shut down despite the lack of data showing that they are the culprit for the recent increase in COVID-19 cases, says a group of Illinois suburban legislators, who also say the Governor has completely disregarded his original mitigation strategy, which would have allowed restaurants to remain open under reduced capacity.
Although requested many times by legislators, the Governor’s Administration and the Illinois Department of Public Health have failed to provide the “data and science” they claim is behind their recent resurgence mitigation rules that lumps bars and restaurants in the same category forcing both to close indoor service completely.
“Participating in a sit down dinner with your family versus drinking at a bar, mingling around, and standing shoulder to shoulder with strangers are vastly different activities with vastly different health risks,” said State Senator Don DeWitte (R-St. Charles). “So to place these activities in the same category with the same mitigation rules is simply unfair, especially to do so without providing contact tracing data that suggests these two activities result in the same outcomes.”
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The only data and science is fraudulent. This state and city must start laying off and cutting salaries of it's government employees if they continue this charade. You are stifling the small business owner which is the backbone of our economy. You have to stop treating the people like children.
ReplyDeletePritzker is doing his part to create panic and drive down in-person voting.
ReplyDeleteGee, would be swell if we had real media in Illinois investigate all of Hog Jowls actions instead of just reading his press releases as "news."
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