Board of Aldermen 11-24-2020 Page 43
President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderman Laws?
Alderman Laws
Thank you, Madam President, my connection keeps dropping, so someone just wave to me if | start
dropping. | just want to make a few comments, first off Happy Birthday Trish. | appreciate the concern
about the abuse that we take, but that honestly is part of the job and we are used to it. Second of all, | can
handle the abuse, | can’t handle the guilt that | am going to feel if | find out that the bar | work at or not even
the bar | work at, at any bar that could have affected, and it ends up being the spot where this community
transmission and somebody ultimately died as a result of it. That’s kind of what | am championing this
cause for the last couple of weeks.
| am sure all of you agree with me that nobody wants to feel that way, especially as close to the holidays,
especially after what a crappy year this has been for every single one of us, you know? That being said, |
am a little (inaudible) right now because the feeling | am coming away from is that nothing is going to
happen. It might happen a couple of days from now, but a couple days from now will be a couple of days
after the second busiest drinking holiday of the year. People are going to go out tomorrow night, they are
going to go out in droves, they are going to stand in line outside of bars while they wait because there’s
capacities now. They are not going to wear masks, they are going to hug each other because they haven't
seen each other in forever. People are going to spread the virus around, they are going to take it home
and they are going to give it to their parents, they are going to give it to their sick housemates and people
are going to be in the hospital because of this.
We really need to do anything to prevent this from happening. And | understand that there are drastic
economic implications from it and the last thing in the world | want to do is take any more money out of the
wallets of people who are already hurting from the last eight months because of this disease that is going
around. But when (audio cuts out)....
President Wilshire
We lost you Alderman Laws.
Alderman Laws
... our responsibility at least in this crazy situation. | have a point but | don’t other than if there’s anything
that we can do, can we please do it before it is too late, because we don’t want to have this conversation in
a couple of days and realize that we really missed an opportunity. That being said, | love you all, and | hope
you all stay safe and | wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.
President Wilshire
Thank you, Alderman Laws. Anyone else? Alderman Cleaver?
Alderman Caron
Alderman Caron?
President Wilshire
Alderman Cleaver?
