Response from New York mayor to those New Yorkers who want to return to their religious services

I saw this on the Catholic New Service.  So, the mayor has compassion for one group of people, which includes his daughter, and no compassion for another group, saying that it is not the same thing and he judges our needs as not as important.  Now I know why I burst out crying yesterday, thinking of all of that: 

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that ongoing protests in the city merit exceptions to coronavirus regulations, while religious services do not. The mayor’s remarks have drawn criticism from New York’s archdiocese.

“When you see a nation, an entire nation simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary crisis seeded in 400 years of American racism, I’m sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services,” de Blasio said at a June 2 press conference, while defending his policy of allowing mass protests while continuing to restrict religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.