Gov. Pritzker announced IL's COVID-19 metrics and regulations months ago. Mayor Lightfoot knew that if cases continued to rise the state's metrics and regulations would close restaurants to indoor dining. Despite this, she opened bars to indoor partying. blockclubchicago.org/2020/10/28/lig…
As reported by NPR in August: "Public health experts and top health officials, including the Dr. Tony Fauci, say the evidence is abundantly clear: When bars open, infections tend to follow." npr.org/sections/healt…
These are tough times. The federal government has failed to provide the support our small businesses need. In the absence of federal support, our state and local leaders are faced with hard choices.
Mayor Lightfoot had a choice: she could keep bars closed to indoor partying to help keep cases down and the rest of the city open, or she could open bars and add to the spread of COVID-19 and put us on track to a second lockdown. She chose the latter. She should own her choice.
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