State Senator Jason Plummer and State Representative Blaine Wilhour are both frustrated with Governor JB Pritzker for requiring schoolchildren to continue wearing masks despite their harmful effects.
Plummer is saying shame on Governor Pritzker, the State of Illinois, and decision-makers at schools that continue to force our defenseless children to mask. He says we are only beginning to see the damage being done to our young people—damage that was predicted and that will continue to become more apparent and more tragic as time passes.
Plummer says for two years he has been calling on the Governor to work with the legislature and local authorities, to operate transparently and share data, and to trust Illinoisans to live their lives while we all work together to protect the most vulnerable among us. Instead, Plummer says he continues to unilaterally run the state by executive order, making decisions based on the only type of science he cares about—political science. He believes the entire state is now recognizing none of this is about true science. Plummer says the first restrictions removed should be restrictions on our children.
Wilhour says the Governor has had unchecked power the past two years and parents have had enough. He is encouraging them to rise up and demand a normal school experience.
“The observed science, scores of studies, real-world observations, have told us there are absolutely no observed or clinical data that indicates any benefit whatsoever of masking K through 12 students in schools. But as parents, we can all observe the harms this nonsensical policy has brought us.”
Wilhour says parents like himself are fleeing public education as a result. He says this Governor has two years’ worth of experience that he and his unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats can inflict any unlawful decree on the residents of this state without any accountability.
A circuit court judge last week ruled the Governor had overstepped his authority in crafting the mask mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions on school students. An immediate appeal was made to the Appellate Court to overturn the temporary restraining order, but so far the appellate judges have not taken action.
