“Don’t believe everything you read.”
That was Mayor Langfelder’s response to online rumors of additional COVID mitigation measures coming in the wake of Sangamon County’s report of a new single-day record: 460 cases Tuesday.
Langfelder made his remarks during the final city council meeting of the year.
The Mayor did not rule out added restrictions, however, based on information he would get from the Sangamon Department of Public Health or hospitals.
“If need be . . . if hospitalizations accelerate and capacities are limited, we will probably come back with a mask mandate. But we’d do our due diligence and ask people to keep the general public safe.
The Mayor’s frustration was palpable. “All of us have been through enough,” he said, so we need to take some personal responsibility to make sure we can manage our way through it—which we can—to keep businesses open and keep people healthy and safe as much as possible during this season of illness.”
The Mayor called on people to get vaccinated, boosted, and wear masks when and where advised.
Sangamon County’s rolling daily average of new coronavirus cases also hit a pandemic-era record Tuesday. The new number? 280.