“It is sad and unfortunate we have so many people willing to comply,” says one protester who apparently wishes more people would take fewer precautions for their health and safety. pic.twitter.com/vOYUg5AtgV
At some age, I think we all learn that we lack the ability to control the bad things that come at us.
For me, that was losing my father at the age of seven and losing my mother at the age of seventeen.
Every day that I woke up during this pandemic and looked at how many people had died the day earlier, I knew, thinking about each one of those people, what they were going through, what their families were going through.
And I knew that it was my obligation to do everything that I could to make sure that another person wouldn’t go through that.
Look, I may not have gotten every decision right but at every step along the way I followed the science.
This is a state that cares deeply about keeping each other healthy and making sure that we get through this together.
We have more work to do, there’s no doubt, but Illinois has led in ways that people did not expect. And I’m very proud of that.
