Column: Why Must We Pretend Pritzker Pandemic Metrics Aren’t Meaningless? – Patch Chicago

Mark Konkol: "Pritzker could have shown himself to be a leader by engaging with industry leaders, pushing for adequate contact tracing data and using a wide range of data to develop pandemic policies that balanced the needs to save businesses and lives. It might have helped him realize sooner that those benchmarks he set early in the pandemic for determining the rate of virus transmission in regions didn't end up being statistics to drive public policy."
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Not the Senator's Son
5 years ago

Proving yet again this was never about “the science” nor was it about the “virus”, it was about making damn sure Donald J Trump was run out of D.C.

I have no respect for any of these people. They crushed businesses and destroyed the lives of hard working American immigrants who busted their asses making small companies run in our cities and villages to have these billionaires take away the “American Dream” from the most vulnerable.

debtsor
5 years ago

“it was about making damn sure Donald J Trump was run out of D.C.”

Yes, this was one reason. The other is that they were mimicking other European and five eyes nations that went into full lock down, to act like they were doing *something*, full well knowing that BIPOC and Trump Supporters would be hurt the most.

Insidious and evil, really.

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