Chicago Considers Hiring Workers
to Enforce Social Distancing
NBC5-TV (Chicago),
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
5/8/2020 4:38:48 PM
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot has floated the idea of hiring workers to enforce social distancing as she continues to decide how to safely open the city's lakefront, riverwalk and walking trails amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Lightfoot was asked about her plans for reopening the lakefront at a news conference Friday where she announced the city's five phase reopening plan.
The mayor stated that the reopening plan must be "guided by science," and she's considering multiple possibilities, such as a phased reopening and employing the use of "social distancing ambassadors." Ambassadors have been added in cities like Seattle to remind people about social distancing and to record data on park usage
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 5/8/2020 4:41:34 PM (No. 405325)
The article poster's idea is a lot kinder and gentler than mine, but makes a lot more sense than hiring unlimited number of new workers to do more made-up jobs.
3 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 5/8/2020 4:43:09 PM (No. 405326)
Insanity.
7 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
watashiyo 5/8/2020 4:53:20 PM (No. 405331)
Why do people live there?
9 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
john56 5/8/2020 4:54:19 PM (No. 405332)
Brown shirt uniforms to be issued.
15 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
tsquare 5/8/2020 4:55:27 PM (No. 405334)
Being “being guided by science” appears to mean not listening to economists, businessmen, constituents, etc in the complex of ALL of the voices that should be considered in public decision makers...ceding these valuable points of view to a limited point of view.
6 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
pros7767 5/8/2020 4:56:11 PM (No. 405335)
That's it! Add more people to the pension system!
5 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/8/2020 4:59:18 PM (No. 405338)
There may a role for them after Covid. Like asking you how many calories are in that hamburger. Or demanding to know why you are driving solo. Or telling you that your porch light was on all night. Or snatching away your cigaret. Or asking how much you weigh. Yes, what we need to have in the flight to save the planet is professional busy bodies to keep us all in line. And report us to the authorities when we are not.
11 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/8/2020 5:01:30 PM (No. 405341)
Shoot'em on site !!!! /s
4 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 5/8/2020 5:09:56 PM (No. 405350)
Where are they going to get the money to hire those people? Supposedly, Chicago is broke, and is begging money from the feds.
Democrats are going way past their authority. I hope the next elections change things for the good people of Chicago, that have to live under this oppression.
7 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
franq 5/8/2020 5:11:51 PM (No. 405352)
I'm sick of these virus buzzwords.
14 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
learner 5/8/2020 5:19:53 PM (No. 405364)
Will these new workers get paid exorbitant salaries and be enrolled in the criminally underfunded pension plans?
7 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/8/2020 5:34:50 PM (No. 405377)
OK the Chicago Social Distancing Police Department will be armed manned up and ready for action. Big Brother will be watching and if you don't comply you will get social demerits on your Facebook and Instragram accounts and public shaming. So better watch it.
7 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
JL80863 5/8/2020 5:43:01 PM (No. 405380)
They plan on borrowing armored vehicles from the Army.
3 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
varkdriver 5/8/2020 5:48:39 PM (No. 405383)
This will never stop. You gotta have an 'emergency' to wield dictatorial powers, and that
emergency' can't have an end date!
5 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 5/8/2020 6:13:27 PM (No. 405389)
Do they get to wear brown shirts? Do they pass out yellow Covid-19 patches?
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/8/2020 6:23:32 PM (No. 405393)
Well I got all hacked off a little earlier today. Went to a furniture store to shop and some guy with a mask was at the door waving a thermometer. He said he needed to take my temperature. I said no. He said well you can't come in. Now - he obviously has no medical training. He didn't appear to be cleaning the thermometer between people he was checking. What if I did have a temperature, which I don't, but what if I did. Then what would he do? This is all virtue signaling to look like they care more than anyone else. No one has the right to check anything medical on their customers. I'll shop elsewhere. Large democrat run cities have lost their minds, too. Can't believe anyone wants to live there.
9 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
or gate 5/8/2020 7:21:47 PM (No. 405441)
Give everyone a six foot stick, then they know how far six feet is.
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Take that creepy “social distancing” crap and shove it!
It’s a PLANDEMIC....
Ask bill gates!
This was planned!
2 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
hershey 5/8/2020 8:33:59 PM (No. 405470)
I can see it now...'Hey homie, yu ain't 6 foot apart (waving gun) move your stupid azz 'way'
1 person likes this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
msjena 5/8/2020 8:43:59 PM (No. 405472)
Chicago doesn’t have the money to hire additional workers. Lori is turning into a nanny-in-chief.
0 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/9/2020 12:28:27 AM (No. 405537)
Your papers,please.
0 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/9/2020 2:48:45 AM (No. 405583)
But, but, but, isn't Chicago broke? Who's paying for it? Soros? Gates? The Butcher? Oh wait, scratch that. She'll never part with any dollar she got through corruption.
0 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
weejun 5/9/2020 3:51:44 AM (No. 405604)
Add swastika armbands and jackboots, #4.
0 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/9/2020 4:45:47 AM (No. 405613)
It seems to me that this crisis is exposing those who are politicians and those who are leaders.
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Two comments, first one shouldn't be put in print. Second comment, libraries have been closed since early March, put the librarians to work as "ambassadors".