Anti-stay-home rally in Springfield

Posted on April 26, 2020
Protesters braved the rain in Springfield to speak their piece against the “stay home” order. (Dave Dahl/WJBC)

 

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – About a hundred protesters braved a chilly drizzle Saturday for a rally outside the Capitol in Springfield. The “Orphans of the American Dream” are against the “stay home” order Gov. JB Pritzker is extending through May 30.

Organizer Matt Walder said, “We can take care of ourselves. We don’t need Big Brother Daddy Government to take care of us.” Walker says where he lives — Cissna Park, a town of 800 in Iroquois County — you don’t need the same coronavirus guidelines as a city the size of Chicago.

Jim Muncy of Peoria rejects most of what he’s heard from the government. “We should be letting this thing blow through the population so we get herd immunity and get it behind us,” he said. “When we come out, the virus will be there.”

Muncy said Pritzker should take his own advice: “Listen to the science.”

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected]

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