“At a time when politicians in some places have dipped their toes into the waters of sedition, or pulled chairs up for the ghosts of Jim Crow, or spurned the fires of educational curiosity in favor of book banning, or are telling women you have to take your reproductive health choices back to the 1950′s, at a time when some would question the very foundations of science and medicine, at a time when some would condemn simple acts of courtesy and kindness like wearing a mask so that fewer people die, this government in this state said, ‘Not here,’” Pritzker said.
