Groot Steps on Fatass

A rather largish break from a formerly united front:

• Doug Dunlay was “absolutely thrilled” when Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Wednesday that restaurants could start serving customers on their patios as soon as May 29, the day his current stay-at-home order expires.
  
  Dunlay, the owner of Smoke Daddy in Wicker Park, said he and his team immediately sprang into action and started mapping out the restaurant’s patio to adhere to the state’s social distancing guidelines. After struggling for months after the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, he said the announcement marked “the first time we actually had any hope.”
  
  So when Mayor Lori Lightfoot told reporters Thursday that she doesn’t think Chicago restaurants will be ready to reopen by next week, Dunlay said he felt as if she “pulled the carpet out from under us.”
  
  “I think it’s short-sighted and I think it’s a slap in the face or a gut punch,” said Dunlay.
  
  While Lightfoot said she hopes to have restaurant patios up-and-running by next month, she noted that the process has to be done safely and steps must first be taken to maximize the revenues of restaurants that have been hit hard by the pandemic and will now have to limit capacities.

Our thought - Fatass was facing an internal revolt from downstate lawmakers that would have jeopardized Madigroin's super-majority, so they devised a "compromise" that loosed the leash around the necks of businesses (that continues to strangle tax revenues) just enough to give themselves some cover. The plan remains the same - keep Illinois closed as a political ploy to attempt to effect the national election - but now the Illinois Combine has a fig-leaf as cover.

Groot however, doesn't have Putzker's problems. She has 50 democrats in the Council, at least 33 of which are perfectly willing to vote against the interests of taxpayers and award a multi-convicted felon a few hundred grand for being caught with a gun (again) and in a hot car.

But a new study might completely blow a hole in Fatass's and Groot's totalitarian efforts:

• We were told that states lifting their lockdowns would bring about untold tragedy, death, overflowing hospitals, and general destruction of civilization, yet according to a new study by JP Morgan, it would appear that the states lifting lockdowns are getting better, not worse.
  
  CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla posted the bank’s research that shows a fascinating decline in infection rates by states ending their lockdowns.
  
  “JPMorgan has a devastating piece arguing that infection rates have declined — not increased — in states where lockdowns have ended, “even after allowing for an appropriate measurement lag.”

This isn't unique to the USA. It's worldwide. So what about this science? Because all we're hearing from the politicians is they "follow the science." Science is seldom actually settled - it evolves and changes as more data and experiments refine thinking, and the more data that becomes available, the less deadly this "pandemic" turns out to be. And the engineered destruction of the best economic picture since the Reagan Recovery is exposed to be a democrat political operation to deprive Americans of their most basic Rights.