Today, Judge Michael McHaney (D — Clay County) ruled that Governor JB Pritzer’s emergency powers do not allow him to extend his stay-at-home order past 30 days — at least as it applies to plaintiff Darren Bailey (R — of course). According to what I’ve read, cities could use this ruling to disregard the governor’s stay-at-home order and reope based on their own criteria.
Governor Pritzker addressed this at his daily briefing on the situation. Moments after advising school districts and students to make contingency plans for e-learning during the fall 2020 semester, he said, in response to the news of this ruling, that
“People are in danger as a result of this ruling, of the judge’s ruling, of the suit that was brought by Darren Bailey. We certainly are going to act in a swift fashion to try to have this ruling overturned, certainly put a stay in place,” he said.
“I mean it’s frankly, it’s insulting, it’s dangerous. And peoples’ safety and health has now been put at risk. There may be people who contract coronavirus as a result of what Darren Bailey has done now.”
From the drug-addled Orange Menace’s support of astro-turfed demonstrations in support of re-opening to this ruling, bad times are coming. Corporate food producer Tyson warned in an ad on Sunday that the US food supply chain is breaking because they can't keep their unsafe processing plants open
"The food supply chain is breaking," wrote board chairman John Tyson in a full-page advertisement published Sunday in The New York Times, Washington Post and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
US farmers don't have anywhere to sell their livestock, he said, adding that "millions of animals — chickens, pigs and cattle — will be depopulated because of the closure of our processing facilities."
"There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed," Tyson wrote.
And Wall Street (well, at least a bond market "King") has noticed that the peons are getting restless:
“I’m certainly in the camp that we are not out of the woods. I think a retest of the low is very plausible,” Gundlach said on CNBC’s “Halftime Report.” “I think we’d take out the low.”
“People don’t understand the magnitude of ... the social unease at least that’s going to happen when ... 26 million-plus people have lost their job,” Gundlach said. “We’ve lost every single job that we created since the bottom in 2009.”
Well, at least for one guy in Illinois, he is free to wander about the state at will. But for the rest of us, I am afraid that fear, conflicting information based on your news source, and a building resentment could flare up into ugly civil unrest.