Thursday, June 25, 2020

“It’s Absolutely Horrifying”

Yes, yes it does.

Hotez: "We have to implement a significant level of social distancing. Now, we have no choice. We have to take action before the weekend. At the minimum, we must focus on the metropolitan areas--Houston, San Antonio and Austin. We are already reaching a dire health crisis in Houston, and it will only get worse."

Question: Do you think after yesterday’s high numbers that Houston should actually be at a red alert on coronavirus threat level?

Hotez: "I think we should be red alert for coronavirus threat level. We need to head in that direction. Six months into this epidemic, and we're basically to square one."

Question: During a U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee meeting yesterday, Rep. Pete Olson (R-Sugar Land) warned that the current trajectory in Houston has the city on pace to be one of the worst affected cities in the U.S. comparing it to Brazil. Olson even called it, "damn scary." Thoughts on this?

Hotez: "I think the congressman has been reading my social media page. That unfortunately is the situation we may be in, unless we do something. The default plan if we don't do anything is that the cases rise until we reach herd immunity. Those numbers would continue to rise vertically."

Question: What is your message to Texans and all Americans about the COVID-19 surge?

Hotez: "Nationally, this is one of the biggest public health failings in the history of the U.S. We have a vaccine that we are hoping to advance this time next year. This pandemic is not getting better on its own. This is a public health crisis that we share with Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. We need to make an urgent plan to take action before the weekend."
This is fine.


But you know what the real problem is? The statues. That’s what we should be worried about.

"You can talk about going back to school, remember we showed that poll some time ago, and something like 80 percent of Americans with children were not ready to send their children back to school, and at the same time the president was pushing for them to send their children back to school,” Scarborough added. “Not because of education, but because workers needed some place to park their children to get back to work. But even small business owners understand that if we have another round of deadly waves of coronavirus, they’re going to have to shut the businesses down again, and it’s already happening in some parts of America.”

Cases are on the rise, and spiking dangerously in Texas, where the administration’s plan to scale down testing would shut down seven testing sites.

“When you look at [Sen.] John Cornyn from Texas, actually criticizing the president of the United States for stopping funding of testing sites, think about this,” Scarborough said. “He wasn’t joking. He’s now calling for the stopping of funding of testing sites as we go up.”
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“We can add Texas and Georgia to the states that are also in danger, because some recent polls have showed that he’s tied there,” he said. “So I guess the question is, what’s the dynamic that’s going to change? What dynamic is going to change? How are these numbers going to get any better if he continues to spout out information that’s false about the worse pandemic in over 100 years?”

Or if he just continues to pretend it doesn't exist, and our biggest problem is statues?

But somebody somewhere is refusing to wear a mask, so “winning,” right? You know the number of people who are refusing to wear masks is about the same number of people "protesting" to "reopen" the economy.  They got all the attention, however; and how'd that work out for the rest of us?  Really gotta rethink this whole "Democracy" thing.  It's not about you.  It's about us.  We have forgotten that.

And woe is us, because we are paying the price for that now.
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