Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Joins NY Gov. Cuomo on “Reopen Economy” Bandwagon
Democrats are going to put an end to Biden’s “Dark Winter” before it even begins.
It appears that Biden’s teleprompter requires a new script.
At a Delaware event on Friday, Biden says the U.S. is in the middle of a very dark winter due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden also noted that millions of people are still hurting during the ongoing pandemic, through no fault of their own. He defended his proposal for an aggressive new coronavirus relief package and said it’s time to go big.
Biden called the Trump administration’s rollout of coronavirus vaccinations a dismal failure. Biden argued that vaccinations must be significantly ramped-up nationwide. Biden suggested that vaccination sites should include large sports facilities, gyms and community centers. He said his administration’s coronavirus response will be guided by science, free of political influence. Meantime, Biden criticized organized disinformation campaigns about the vaccines.
Biden said any uncertainty about getting vaccinated must be addressed head-on. He stressed that the stakes are high as the health of the nation is literally at stake. Biden noted that he will ask Americans to wear face masks for the first 100 days of his administration. He said face masks have become a divisive political issue and called it a “stupid, stupid thing.”
However, these sentiments seem to fly in the face of announcements that are now being made by other, arguably more lucid, Democrats.
We recently reported that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that it was essential that the state’s economy reopened soon, due to the fiscal harm his pandemic restrictions have caused businesses (and, therefore, government tax coffers).
Now, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is joining the chorus of Democrats clamoring to reopen and return to some sort of normalcy.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said during a news conference Thursday that she plans to speak with Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker on ways to roll back COVID-19 restrictions on restaurant and bars to allow them to reopen “as quickly as possible.”
“I am very, very focused on getting our restaurants reopen,” Lightfoot said. “If we look at the criteria the state has set, we are meeting most if not all of those. So that’s a conversation that I will have with the governor.”
Lightfood argued that the restaurant industry has gone “above and beyond” to put coronavirus mitigation efforts in place. She added that restaurants are highly regulated enough that they would be “one of the safer places” for people to visit once restrictions ease.
Restaurant group B. Hospitality Co., which includes B. Hospitality Co. The Bristol, Formento’s, Nonna’s, Swift & Sons, and Cold Storage issued a statement that offers sound, scientific reasoning as to why restaurants and bars should be allowed to reopen.
The employees and ownership of B. Hospitality Co restaurants including The Bristol, Formentos, Nonnas, Swift and Sons, and Cold Storage are thankful the mayor is considering opening restaurants to indoor dining once again. It must be stated there is little to no open source data to the public on the % attributed directly to restaurants in causing COVID infections. Kane County, IL is the only one documenting and that rate is 1.4% of the total infections in that county are attributed to restaurants. For all we know the preponderance of the City of Chicago infections would likely come from the same Kane County figures where the majority of infections are due to nursing homes, assisted living and hospital interactions.
… It is our request to prevent further shutdowns ever again transpiring knowing those better practices from CDPH are coming down from above to restaurants soon. The costs far outweigh COVID infections as a pandora’s box is opened in the pain my employees feel with unemployment, depression, and all of the life threatening consequences that despair involves such as abuse, drugs and alcohol to cope with job reduction or loss. These statistics are yet to be flushed out in the open arena.
I have always supported more reliance on basic hygiene, early testing, and development of vaccinations and treatments as opposed to economy crushing measures.
However, the timing of these announcements, just prior to Inauguration Week, is bringing out the cold, hard cynic in many of us.
So we’re all just going to pretend this narrative happened magically & organically? pic.twitter.com/bfz95e9T8Y
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 15, 2021
What is happening is they want to open everything up now that Trump is out! I said it from the beginning this was designed to get rid of Trump! Is the virus real? Yes is it Is as bad as they are saying? Just watch what happens now and you will have your answer!
— Kricket1971 (@Kricket_nola) January 15, 2021
304 days of lockdowns to destroy the Trump economy, magically coming to an end when Democrats decide they want the economy to recover.
— Tony Heller (@Tony__Heller) January 15, 2021
It looks like the Democrats are going to put an end to Biden’s “Dark Winter” before it even begins.
Personally, I am looking forward to the miraculous disappearance of COVID19, the return of the “bad flu” season, and the massaging of economic data by our press.
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Wow. Sacrifice all those people – just to win an election. Wow.
Yep Robbin that’s what they did. You and Kricket above are exactly right.
It’s only the beginning not the end.
Right now where I live if you cannot wear a mask for certain reasons, including medical, you do not have to have written evidence to prove it.
Federal mask mandate is likely incoming, constitutionality of it or not, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a requirement that the exceptions need an individual to prove it, like a doctor’s note.
MR/MS P, in Oregon you can walk into a Walmart or Safeway and shop without a mask. Hippa (sp) laws forbid questions re medical reasons. I (who refuse to wear a mask anywhere) was simply asked, “May we assume that you have a medical reason for not wearing a mask?” I always answer, “Yes, you may assume that.”
I have been accosted in stores and even in large (outdoor!) parking lots by crazy women re mask “orders” and always respond, “If you think I’m dangerous, stay away from me. Walk away.”
I couldn’t care less for the panicky goofballs selling their nonsense. To me, they’re just like spam phone calls.
BTW, I’m well over 70 and do not fear the wuhan flu.
While there is, technically, a medical exception to our mask mandate, in practice there is no exception. Store managers and employees do not care what exception you claim, you will not be let in or served. It’s simply easier to assume any such claim is fake and summarily reject you.
I have not seen any business that does otherwise, because they could be fined if they let you in and somebody snitches. The snitch will not know if you claimed an exemption or not, and the business likely will not remember you.
In my state, there are zero exceptions. If you can’t wear a mask, you have to find other alternatives like delivery or pickup even though those options aren’t available in most of the state.
Oh, there’s still a dark winter coming. Once Bidenomics hits, it’ll make the lockdowns look like a bacchanalia.
They all turn like a flock of birds in flight. It’s a work of the human mind crowd think is.
Obviously the timing of the lockdowns belies the Democrats’ bad faith in implementing the lockdowns in the first place and maintaining them well beyond any justifiable timeframe. However, this is excellent news and we should all be pleased to see that the Democrats have finally ended the charade.
That said, we should never, ever forget that the pompous Democrats deemed tens of millions of Americans “non-essential.”
My governor is on his transition team and in her last hectoring lecture on the 14th, they’re pretty much advising that we’ll remain in phase one until the summer. We also have a case in front of the state supreme court claiming the closures are a legal taking. The state’s position is that since they’re only a year, it’s “temporary” not permanent. Yeah, tell that to the businesses that have been permanently closed and the owners left with mountains of debt over her “temporary” taking.
Everytime I see someone walking outdoors alone with a mask, all I can think is “MORON”. And there are many…morons.
I see people in cars, solo, masked up.
I am just waiting for the backlash that will come when the majority of idiots out there finally figure out that we didn’t need to shut down in the first place.
Those wearing a mask in a car by themselves will be charged with “Driving while Indoctrinated.”
Stores all around Chicago are getting robbed. Lori Lightfoot is flagrantly hostile to the Chicago Police Department. Until she starts supporting the police department, there will be no economic recovery in Chicago.
Who said Sleepy Joe ain’t a miracle worker? Look how fast he got these business open! I’ll believe he won the election when other politicians copy his campaign and public policies. Stay in the basement all day and don’t talk about your policies at all! Yeah that’s a winner.
“Everytime I see someone walking outdoors alone with a mask, all I can think is “MORON”. And there are many…morons.”
I see morons running with a mask on.