'Unmasked' rally defies school virus rule, Pritzker critique

[TexasTowelie]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Just weeks away from the ringing of the schoolhouse bell, scores of people rallied at the state Capitol Saturday against the state's requirement that schoolchildren must wear face coverings this fall to discourage transmission of the highly contagious and potentially deadly coronavirus.

In a state where the numbers of cases of COVID-19 are rising, if not as quickly as they are surging in several other states, the protestors took aim at Gov. J.B. Pritzker's broadside this week that people who forego face coverings are “the enemy.”

“I don’t think all this pressure needs to be put on the kids,” said Adam Dunn of Decatur, whose kids are out of school. “They need freedom to go play, have a childhood.”

The “Million Unmasked March,” which took its name from the social-justice march a quarter-century ago, drew about 250 people, including a stalwart group of counter-demonstrators who periodically let loose their own shouted protests from across the street.

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[beachbumbob]

1. karma will offer solutions as well as darwinism. I have NO problem with it.

parents want to risk their kids? Sure, go for it. You will will own the outcome and have to explain to those that survive.

[riversedge]

2. But it is the kids who will suffer from the parents selfish stupidity

[beachbumbob]

6. like this, we can not be every body's mother, and its unfortunate

[Squinch]

4. What about the chubby art teacher with hypertension and Bobby's sister with asthma and

Karen's 75 year old grandmother that is raising her?

Also, why is this "movement" being given credit? Why is it not portrayed as what it is: a handful of loons who DO NOT understand how the world works and DO NOT need to be listened to?

[Blues Heron]

3. Ignorant spreaders. JB is right - they are the enemy

their ignorance has now become dangerous to the rest of us and they need to be isolated, shunned, ostracized, ticketed and fined.

[Midnight Writer]

5. The "Million Unmasked March" drew 250 cranks. Astroturfed BS.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Don't Be So Critical!

They were only off by a factor of 4,000!

[Cadfael]

8. The net dipshit attendance was less than 250

The article states “ The “Million Unmasked March,” ... drew about 250 people, including a stalwart group of counter-demonstrators“. So some of the 250 were there to promote critical thinking...

It makes the “free-dumb” demonstration even more pathetic....