Governor is cherry picking science

I recently made a necessary trip to Oklahoma. The towns I drove through in rural Missouri were never under a real shut down order like the major cities of St. Louis and Kansas City were.

The businesses were operating and people were at stores and restaurants. There has never been any large outbreak of infection in these rural areas as a result.

Their economy is not laying in ruins on the floor thanks to their governor, as is that of Illinois. How are the rural counties in Illinois different from those across the Mississippi?

Pritzker drones on about science, facts, etc. - but he cherry-picks the science and facts that bolster his egotistical and dictatorial policy and ignores facts such as the experience of our neighbor state.

The models which are being used to hold us all economic hostage are based on experience in China, Korea and Italy, where people live in dense urban areas and parents normally live with their children. They are inapplicable to small town and rural Illinois. They probably are inapplicable even to the suburbs where people do not take mass transit and share hallways and elevator buttons.

It's time for sensible and responsible people to speak out for rapid and common sense reopening policy and on behalf of our neighbors and downstate citizens who are loosing their life savings unnecessarily.

Heather Hall

Libertyville