The health dept called him and asked him to voluntarily stop seating customers. I Googled for it and found this article, I think this was the guy. It says he closed ... when he ran out of food.
I am not aware of any actual enforcement actions in Illinois other than Chicago police breaking up some parties, even then, they told people to disperse, I don't think they arrested people. Compliance actually seems voluntary, you hear Andrew Cuomo say the same thing, if 19 million people decide not to wear masks, what is he going to do, arrest them all? https://www.wcia.com/news/restaurant-owner-says-hell-sue-health-department-over-dine-in-refusal/ Read the article for yourself. Sounds like he was looking for the attention, otherwise he could have just opened for business without all the publicity and threats of lawsuits. People don't like being told what to do. -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 2:40 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] COVID liability Did they shut him down? Sent from my iPhone > On May 10, 2020, at 1:27 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > I heard on the radio a restaurant owner in downstate Illinois opened > to a full sit-down crowd, citing his rights as an American. He > apparently forgot that restaurants are already subject to lots of > rules, and the county health department can pull his health permit. > Heck, they regulate how big your sign can be, what hours you can be > open, maximum occupancy, whether you can serve liquor (or sprouts or > foie gras), whether you can hand out plastic straws. The idea that a > business is free to do whatever it wants, free of government regulation, is > kind of divorced from reality. > > I don't necessarily agree with the way any level of government is > handling this, but not because of my rights and freedoms. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes > Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 1:53 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>; Steve Jones > <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] COVID liability > > To those saying "why should I have to wear a mask when in public".... > do you also complain about "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service"? > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
