Chicago City Wire

Street preacher and music artist Marcus Rogers is questioning the “common sense factor,” or lack thereof, used to enforce some of the COVID-19 regulations.

In a Facebook Live video posted Monday, Rogers walked up to a temporary structure set up for outdoor dining in Chicago and posed a question to his followers.

“Make this make sense to me,” he said in his live video, “I can't eat inside but I can eat outside, inside. That's kind of crazy to me. So, they set up a structure outside and it’s okay to eat in this.”

Rogers also highlighted the fact that malls are open and many people are shopping and allowed to eat in food courts in malls but cannot dine in at restaurants.

“Something ain’t clicking with the common sense factor, something is not adding up” he said.

Another example of a questionable COVID-19 regulation is how social distancing is mandated at airports only to have people cram into airplanes, he said.

“That’s why, even if you ain’t too deep spiritually…I think the common sense factor says that there has got to be more to this.”

Rogers made mention of the possibility of the pandemic being a social experiment or, as some people claim, a conspiracy theory.

“Why do you gotta get a vaccination for a virus that has a 98 percent recovery rate? That don't make no sense!” he said. “Why do I need that if I get [COVID] and you’re telling me, CDC, that I got a 98 percent, 99 percent chance to recover? It ain't making sense. Something is not adding up.”

What’s strange, he added, is that small businesses are shut down while large retailers like Amazon and Walmart are still making money. Also puzzling is that the protests and riots that peaked in the summer were said to not have caused a spike in the spread of the virus; neither did the crowd gathered to celebrate President-elect Joe Biden – all pointing to the fact that something is awry, Rogers said.

“But if him and I go to church and we [are] having a church service and travelling, people are going to get mad about a church service and say, ‘Oh, you’re going to make a COVID spike,’” he said, “It’s not making sense.”