The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles says it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Democrats politicians are not abiding by their own rules during the coronavirus lockdown. He says their motto should be: “Do as I Say, NOT as I Do.”
Consider New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who went to his favorite YMCA accompanied by a police security detail just hours before New York began to shut down all gyms and other businesses.
Then there’s Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot who had to explain at a press conference why she had to visit a beauty salon despite filming a commercial for Illinois’s statewide stay-at-home order that closed salons and other nonessential businesses.
When challenged about her decision to get a haircut despite the stay-in-place order, Mayor Lightfoot incredulously retorted, “I’m the public face of this city. I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye … I take my personal hygiene very seriously. As I said, I felt like I needed to have a haircut. I’m not able to do that myself, so I got a haircut.”
So, while the citizens of Chicago have to forgo haircuts and other salon services the mayor takes her “personal hygiene very seriously” (which implies the rest of the people in Chicago do not).
Watch the video to learn why Michael Knowles says the COVID-19 shutdown laws must dealt with evenly and fairly—and why they are not. Notice which entities have been considered ‘essential services’ and which have not.
