I’m in line with the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board on this one:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opini...cmm-story.html
I think Pritzker is being too rigid here.
Also, for those out there making comments like “Are restaurants more important, or lives?”, or “Are deaths worth a trip to a shopping mall?”, these comments are at best disingenuous, at worst tone deaf or even cruel.
This long ago stopped being about a trip to the corner restaurant. It’s about millions and millions of lost jobs, furloughs, businesses that were people’s entire livelihoods now shuttered, with no end in sight save for a prayed for rescue check from the Government. It will end up destroying municipal budgets and their ability to provide vital services, as well as being able to employ unionized Government workers, if it continues for too long. There are families out there staring at a financial abyss and they are very worried.
This is also about all of the millions of kids who are staying home from school with parents who might actually have to leave their jobs to stay home with them if they can’t find child care if schools don’t reopen this fall.
This is absolutely unprecedented, so let’s please be adults and stop making it a “waaaah! Stop crying about losing your favorite Thai restaurant” kind of dismissal.