Despite the constant increase in Covid 19 virus, cases, Greg Abbot thinks it is more important to bow to Trump and open the state for business as usual than it is to listen to the experts and wait until infection rates start to fall. How many more will unnecessarily die just so Abbot can get his brownie points from Trump?
Texas hit a third straight day of more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases Saturday as the state charged into its first weekend of re-opening the economy
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From April 2020 to August 2022, the Texas Tribune used data from the Texas Department of State Health Services to track coronavirus hospitalizations, vaccinations, cases and deaths. We stopped updating these numbers in August 2022.
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The death count is not a concern by those who wish to push that argument. Its an excuse to reopen the economy which does show fear of many when faced with not having money and living on borrowed time. People really must want to eat at there favorite restaurant. They will ignore the real issues which is lack of a treatment, inability to test large number of people, lack of a cure. and the fact we are still in a learning curve with this virus. It is a safe bet. There is strong evidence that having a hardy immune system can defeat the virus. Eventually one day they will have enough knowledge to treat this virus. Still it is an individual choice of how you interact in this world and at this point in time. The shutdown was across political lines. How fast we get back on track will have political ramifications but will change no ones mind. The long term effects of having the virus is unknown. Humans are born with fear and it motivates avoidance of certain dangers and strategies to deal with the fear. Republican fear that trump will lose is higher than the fear of dying from this virus. A safe bet either way.
But from all the viruses in the past and the experience we have with COVID-19 all over the world, the least deaths happen when you achieve herd immunity the quickest.
Lock downs only slow down infection rates, so can not ever possibly save any lives.
Lock downs instead instead the death total by slowing down infection rate, so that herd immunity takes longer.
And the longer it takes, the more die.
That is because we have to sequester the vulnerable in the mean time, and as time goes on, that fails.
You do not need or want a treatment because there almost NEVER is any treatment for any virus.
There will never be a cure, as there is no cure for any virus.
Testing would be nice, and we could have it because China has it, but we refuse to use the China testing.
But we don't need testing in order to achieve herd immunity.
And we know for certain herd immunity works.
Not only has it always worked, but the animal that it came from has to have immunity or else it would be extinct.