David Krupa is struggling to make sense of the new COVID-19 restrictions put in place by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
“You’re more likely to get COVID from someone you know...in your home...so why in the hell are we closing businesses again?” Krupa said. “Let’s send in the state police to everyone’s homes and make sure they’re wearing their masks while they sleep. It’s just ridiculous how far (Chicago Mayor Lori) Lightfoot and Pritzker are willing to go and how many lives they are willing to destroy for political purposes.”
Citing rising infection rates, the governor recently moved to reenact COVID restrictions in counties across the state, triggering the ire of many small business owners still struggling with the effects of earlier shutdown orders. With a Facebook page dedicated to businesses planning to defy his order already created and launched, the governor is now threatening to send the Illinois State Police to the regions where restaurants and bars are deemed to be in violation.
Krupa, who formerly ran for Chicago alderman, has long taken a stance against what he considers to be the governor’s heavy-handedness in his handling of the pandemic.
“Everyone acknowledges he has crossed the bounds of what should be his power,” Krupa told Chicago City Wire soon after the governor moved to ban fall sports for high school student-athletes. "People have really grown tired of the restraints being placed on them that are coming at his whim.”
Krupa argues everything always seems to come down to the same motivations for the governor.
“It’s all about politics,” he said. “I really believe that, so much so that I think a lot of what you’re seeing every day with COVID will be completely gone after (Election Day) Nov.3. There’s no question it’s a real disease, but there has just been so much government overreach. We’re treating this as an all-or-nothing proposition and that shouldn’t be the case.”
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