re: #160 Belafon

And who was talking about cancelling Thanksgiving? I realize you’re job is to keep us on the facts, and it’s good that people here do that, but they’re itching to turn this into another round of going after things white people love.

Mayor Lightfoot wants to cancel traditional trick-or-treating given that it’s not a particularly good idea in the year of the plague for kids to be knocking on people’s doors asking for candy. Many homeowners are not enthusiastic about answering their doors at this time. And the speaker did allege that the next holiday on the hit list was Thanksgiving because the authorities might try to limit the number of people you can have at your dinner table.

This is all on Trump and his continuing refusal to treat the pandemic as a serious threat to human lives and health. There would not be this persistent pushback against health measures if he had been supportive from day one. Yes, libertarians would probably voice disapproval, but without Trump’s megaphone they would have had little impact.