If those folks wish to “go back to work”, perhaps they should apply to work on the janitorial staff, specifically the ER and ICU wards, at almost any hospital in the state.
Or perhaps they’d like to go to work in their nearest nursing home, jail, or other congregate living facility.
The smartest one in that family is the woman who hid behind the sign. If they’re not a family, those two boomers might be in for a world of Covid hurt.
We’d all like to go back to normal. However, we’d all like to live too. We’d all like for our friends and relatives to live and more catch the virus from us too. We’d all like the people that survive the virus to not have permanent residual effects. Has he got any ideas how to open up the state safely? If not, sit down.
Lynn - most of the people I hear from wanting to get back to work are small business owners who wonder why the big box stores can be open with social distancing restrictions, but their business can’t be.
They did this in Michigan recently and it got ugly quickly. I can’t get my head around the idea that people think that Pritzker and other governors are doing this to somehow punish them. We’re saving lives people. That’s the one and only agenda here.
Photos of the Michigan rallies, lots of cars driving sround, reminded me of those mass transit ads with three pictures, one that shows a street full of cars, one that shows just the drivers with the cars gone, and then all of the drivers standing bunched together, as if they’d fit on a single bus. I wonder how many people really attended those rallies.
Not only are there political overtones to these rallies (Dems bad), but the big Michigan rally was reported as involving militias, who are quite interested in fomenting chaos in order to advance their racist agenda and usher in the new America. So, not everyone protesting is a covidiot or aggrieved businessperson.
Lynn - fair balance of the three. Retail small specialty (some with web, some not), barbers, bar owners and restaurant owners. I’ve been doing what I can to support the restaurant and bar folks, but the others are kinda hosed.
Lost all respect for Mayor Lightfoot with her haircut after seeing what my barber friends are going through.
- Demoralized - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:30 pm:
What a bunch of [banned words]
- Amalia - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:31 pm:
what Rich always calls such people….
- Tommydanger - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:35 pm:
For what its worth, I’m willing for him to be arrested too.
- Stagman - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:35 pm:
A+ on the title, Rich
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:36 pm:
Glad to see the American flag and not the Confederate flag. Still not 6’ apart though.
- Moe Berg - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:36 pm:
Gonna give them credit for not waving a Confederate flag.
- PublicServant - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:37 pm:
You can’t fix stup1d
- Lynn S. - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:38 pm:
If those folks wish to “go back to work”, perhaps they should apply to work on the janitorial staff, specifically the ER and ICU wards, at almost any hospital in the state.
Or perhaps they’d like to go to work in their nearest nursing home, jail, or other congregate living facility.
Just a suggestion…
- Jocko - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:40 pm:
The smartest one in that family is the woman who hid behind the sign. If they’re not a family, those two boomers might be in for a world of Covid hurt.
- thoughts matter - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:41 pm:
We’d all like to go back to normal. However, we’d all like to live too. We’d all like for our friends and relatives to live and more catch the virus from us too. We’d all like the people that survive the virus to not have permanent residual effects. Has he got any ideas how to open up the state safely? If not, sit down.
- SKI - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:41 pm:
Lynn - most of the people I hear from wanting to get back to work are small business owners who wonder why the big box stores can be open with social distancing restrictions, but their business can’t be.
- thoughts matter - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:42 pm:
Not catch rather than more catch.
- Oak Parker - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:42 pm:
The headline of this post should be in the running for a Golden Horseshoe
- Pundent - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:47 pm:
They did this in Michigan recently and it got ugly quickly. I can’t get my head around the idea that people think that Pritzker and other governors are doing this to somehow punish them. We’re saving lives people. That’s the one and only agenda here.
- Ducky LaMoore - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:48 pm:
I’ve always questioned the effectiveness of pro-life rallies. I’m not sure how I feel about pro-death rallies.
- Wow - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:48 pm:
Two words: Gene Pool
- Pundent - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:52 pm:
=I’m not sure how I feel about pro-death rallies.=
You win.
- Lt Guv - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 1:55 pm:
What is so tough about getting your head around the idea that if you’re dead, none of the rest of it matters?
- Token Conservative - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:06 pm:
They should have protested in front of Rodney Davis’ office, WICS would have sent a camera in a heartbeat.
- fedup - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:09 pm:
Good to see too many banners and just the right amount of people. Lets hope Illinoisans can keep it as such.
- ArchPundit - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:10 pm:
The lurkers support them in e-mails.
- Keyrock - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:11 pm:
Was Tillman there?
- Lynn S. - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:11 pm:
SKI,
If we had more time and space, I’d love to have a discussion about what businesses your friends have.
Are these retail, that could do web sales?
Are they restaurants, who could do delivery?
Are they in some type of personal service that could be practiced in a manner that allows social distancing?
(Not trying to be a smart aleck. Working on the assumption that your friends are not IPI shills.)
- Mama - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:15 pm:
Where are those people from?
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:23 pm:
Mama -
Better question: What do these people do for a living? Obviously they are not essential workers.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:27 pm:
The protest also doubled as an official “The World is Flat” Committee meeting.
- Socially DIstant Watcher - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:40 pm:
Photos of the Michigan rallies, lots of cars driving sround, reminded me of those mass transit ads with three pictures, one that shows a street full of cars, one that shows just the drivers with the cars gone, and then all of the drivers standing bunched together, as if they’d fit on a single bus. I wonder how many people really attended those rallies.
- Jibba - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 2:47 pm:
Not only are there political overtones to these rallies (Dems bad), but the big Michigan rally was reported as involving militias, who are quite interested in fomenting chaos in order to advance their racist agenda and usher in the new America. So, not everyone protesting is a covidiot or aggrieved businessperson.
- SKI - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 3:07 pm:
Lynn - fair balance of the three. Retail small specialty (some with web, some not), barbers, bar owners and restaurant owners. I’ve been doing what I can to support the restaurant and bar folks, but the others are kinda hosed.
Lost all respect for Mayor Lightfoot with her haircut after seeing what my barber friends are going through.
- Nick Name - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 3:13 pm:
“exercising his first amendment”
Is that what the kids are calling it now?
- XDNR - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 3:33 pm:
Good candidates for the Darwin Award.
- Huh? - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 3:39 pm:
“Two words: Gene Pool”
Shallow end at that.
- Annonin' - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 3:42 pm:
The EasternBlocHeads really know how to whip up a crowd
- train111 - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 3:48 pm:
Well they say “three’s a crowd”
Now they can report back to their friends, family, and supporters how they had a ‘crowd’ attending the protest.
- efudd - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 3:49 pm:
Lemme guess.
Everyone they’ve talked to say it’s time to open up the state.
- Tat25 - Thursday, Apr 16, 20 @ 5:46 pm:
Mama-where are these people from? Well, the woman with the hat on is a Springfield realtor.