The Bittner quote: "never intended to allow people to avoid public health guidance during a global pandemic." She talks as though no one in 1998 had any experience with pandemics. We know what Pritzker wants--even people like me who don't live within a thousand miles of Illinois--and the question is whether he gets his way. He has no great good principles.
And besides which, the "intention" was to say "you can't force medicine on people if they don't want it". That's a pretty base liberal principle that would have been largely accepted, or even seemed obvious, in 1998. Today's progressives are not liberals.
The Bittner quote: "never intended to allow people to avoid public health guidance during a global pandemic." She talks as though no one in 1998 had any experience with pandemics. We know what Pritzker wants--even people like me who don't live within a thousand miles of Illinois--and the question is whether he gets his way. He has no great good principles.
And besides which, the "intention" was to say "you can't force medicine on people if they don't want it". That's a pretty base liberal principle that would have been largely accepted, or even seemed obvious, in 1998. Today's progressives are not liberals.