Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Just Put Out the Most Cringeworthy COVID Safety Ad Ever

Brittany M. Hughes | November 12, 2020
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Rather than, say, getting a handle on the rampant crime and murder that’s still raging through black communities under her watch, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot instead took time out of her not-so-busy schedule to film perhaps the most cringeworthy COVID safety ad imaginable.

It’s bad. As in, really, really bad.

The 30-second infomercial, paid for by Chicago taxpayers and apparently filmed on someone’s 5th generation iPhone and edited in 1997 Microsoft paint, starts with a black-and-white shot of Lightfoot asleep on a couch, appearing to have a bad dream.

After a moment, the mayor "wakes up," looks directly into the camera and says in total monotone, “Science is back, baby.”

And it only gets worse from there.
 


Only after one shakes off the goosebumps that only come from being utterly embarrassed for another person does the irony set in: that the party that believes babies aren’t people, that women can have penises and that men can give birth think they have a monopoly on following the “science.”

 

 

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