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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Gov. Greg Abbott Caught on Recording Saying Reopening Will Increase Spread of Coronavirus
Days after enacting a plan to re-open Texas' nonessential businesses on May 1, a leaked recording appears to reveal Gov. Greg Abbott acknowledging the order would lead to more COVID-19 infections.
The recording, provided by the group Progress Texas, is purported to be audio of a May 1 call between Abbott and Texas lawmakers about the reopening plan. The recording was supplied by a person on the call to the Texas Democratic Party, a Progress Texas spokeswoman said
Abbott's office was unavailable for immediate comment on the recording.
How do we know reopening businesses won't result in faster spread of COVID-19?" Abbott asks on the audio. "Listen, the fact of the matter is, pretty much every scientific and medical report shows that whenever you have a reopening ... it actually will lead to an increase in spread. It's almost ipso facto ... The goal never has been to get COVID-19 transmission down to zero.
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https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/05/05/texas-gov-greg-abbott-caught-on-recording-saying-reopening-will-increase-spread-of-coronavirus
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)fuck the both of them
brush
(53,845 posts)Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)What the blissfully willfully ignorant fucker missed was that by not insisting Texans wear masks and social distance Texans will needlessly die. Fuck him.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)What's the big deal? He's right.
Takket
(21,625 posts)his fault is that he opened too soon and didn't flatten the curve enough but everyone knows and has always known that no one is getting the cases down to zero.