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On Thursday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D-Chicago) announced new restrictions to fight the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic in the Windy City. By restrictions, I mean outright canceling Thanksgiving, “traditional Thanksgiving,” at least. No, that’s not my opinion — it’s exactly what she said.
“A Stay-at-Home Advisory for Chicago will go into effect on Monday, November 16th at 6:00am,” Lightfoot tweeted from on high.
This advisory calls on all Chicagoans to do the following:
– Stay home unless for essential reasons
– Stop having guests over—including family members you do not live with
– Avoid non-essential travel
– Cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans
– Stay home unless for essential reasons
– Stop having guests over—including family members you do not live with
– Avoid non-essential travel
– Cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) November 12, 2020
Sure, Thanksgiving may be a national holiday dating back to 1863, with roots tracing all the way back to the Pilgrims and the first settlers of Jamestown, Virginia. Sure, it may be one of the few times a year when American extended families come together to share a meal and celebrate what they’re thankful for. But the coronavirus is a GLOBAL PANDEMIC and Chicagoans just can’t afford to gather in private, let alone in public.
Wait, didn’t Lori Lightfoot join a crowd to celebrate the (still disputed) results of the presidential election just five days ago? Well, that’s fine because she was celebrating democracy, not gathering in an intimate setting with her family to celebrate an American tradition dating back before the Constitution.
This is a great day for our city and our country. We are taking our democracy back. #BidenHarris2020 pic.twitter.com/OAZQPd1r4y
— Lori Lightfoot (@LoriLightfoot) November 8, 2020
Positive COVID-19 tests rose to the highest level yet in Illinois in the past few days, with 12,384 recorded positives on Wednesday, raising the state to 538,000 recorded positive tests, according to The New York Times. The state experienced 147 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, raising the total to 10,854.
The coronavirus pandemic is a serious crisis, but lockdowns arguably cost more in terms of years of life lost than the years of life they save. Furthermore, it is one thing to issue guidelines for how families should celebrate Thanksgiving. Some social distancing — tables outdoors, with extended family members six feet apart — may make sense. It is entirely something else to tell residents of Chicago to stop having guests over outside the members of their own households, especially for Thanksgiving.
Sure, Lightfoot’s order is merely an “advisory,” for now. What if she decides to go further? Will she send police officers door to door, to make sure no illegal family gatherings are taking place? Will she send officers to patrol the streets to make sure no one steps foot outside of his or her home on the holiday?
In September, Attorney General William Barr condemned the lockdowns in the strongest of terms. He said, “You know, putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.”
When the mayor of Chicago tells citizens to “cancel traditional Thanksgiving,” I’m inclined to agree with Barr. If the mayor tries to enforce this order, that would be a horrendous intrusion on civil liberties.
Tyler O’Neil is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
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All one has to do in order to get around Mayor Lightbrain’s edict is to declare the gathering a BLM protest to defund the police.
Hey, that is the second step in advancing communism, the first step is to remove all guns. And they want to do that as well. So get used to mail starting with “Dear Comrade”.That is what they want. I’m sure glad I’m old and ready to die. Those As__holes are throwing S_IT
in the faces of our brave fighting men and women- both living and dead (who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country”. All of that will be ignored by this incoming socialist (communist) president and staff. Wait for the taxes that will be raised to pay for this government giveaway: I hope I’ll be dead.
And I hope you’re alive & well to see the defeat of the fascist left in our country. First Amendment? Of course…………………………………except for any mention of socialism/marxism/communism.
Where was mayor beetlejuice’s toughness when there were riots and looting in Chicago’s downtown loop area? Or blacks shooting blacks every night in Chicago? She only acts tough against the law abiding, non problematic citizens of Chicago.
I am from IL. and I am saying I will have Thanksgiving with my whole family, weather the Government says I can or not. I pay my taxes and I have worked my butt off for the last 50 + years taking care of everyone else making sure they had food, cloths, transportation and everything else they needed. Unfortunately the government is trying to change us from a free country to a socialist one, under their control not ours. I have always called the doctor when I was sick not my Government, I called my insurance company to make sure the doctor got paid not the Government, I went to work so I could support my family and pay taxes, so those that we elect can do the same thing. I didn’t give the Government the right to take away my freedoms, my rights, my voice, or my vote. This Mayor has no idea who really pays her or who makes the rules. Just so she knows it we the people no we the Government.
A thousand Amens, brother. We will battle these evil-doers to the death. LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Who does she think she is???
May she burn in hell for the Evil witch she is. BTW…America is NOT a Democracy. It is a Republic. I sincerely hope that you Chicago people will make sure she does Not be your mayor any longer than necessary. **You DO know that you can legally REMOVE her from office, don’t you??
As a former Chicagoan, it’s amazing to watch the depths to which that city has disintegrated. Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, New York City, etc., etc. have all become eyesores to the nation. People, WAKE UP!!!
Eat Shit, Beetlejuice.