I get that people are scared. This Omicron surge is real. And we're doing everything that we can across our city to mitigate it.
Lori Lightfoot: “I get that people are scared. This Omicron surge is real. And we're doing everything that we can across our city to…”
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Lightfoot acknowledges the concerns surrounding the Omicron surge while advocating for students to return to school.
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Look, every mayor's going to tell you that they need more resources. What we've seen that's been successful is the things that I talked about before, but we've also I think done a lot with diversion at the police station.
It's disgusting. There are kids waking up today in California with this news thinking that their governor hates them, and rightly so.
The White House says they've been in touch with both you and the governor to quote, assess your needs.
Unfortunately, some people like to politicize the pandemic. And that's not just something that happens on one side of the political divide.





