No Budge

I took an hour out of my life yesterday afternoon to watch the Governor’s daily COVID-19 briefing. For a big man, he is a very good dancer.

Here’s what I heard…

April 30^th will come and go and we will still be sheltered-in-place. Our restaurants will still most certainly  have continued closed dining areas.  Our non-essential stores will not be allowed to open. If you have a non-life threatening surgery, you will likely have to go out-of-state. Walmart will be allowed to sell whatever it wants to….they are apparently immune to any restriction.

The Governor would not say rural Illinois will be dealt with in a different way than Chicago. It appears we are all in this together, despite the obvious higher incidence of COVID-19  in the state’s densest population centers.

The Mayor of Chicago suggests, without any push back from the Governor, that this thing might stay in place into July.

Our state representative Darren Bailey wants a regional reopening of the economy. He claims Pritzker’s “one-size-fits-all” mentality needs to be reviewed.  

I agree a review is in order.

I’ll wear a mask if it's mandated. I’ll stay six feet away from other customers in places of business. I do already. But if there is no budge in J.B. Pritzker and if he is thinking the same way as Chicago’s mayor, there won’t be any businesses left to open when this thing is over.

We can emerge from our home here….safely… when we follow common sense rules.