I think RWNJ world is up to their drink the Jonestown Kool-aid moment.

[ffr]

Link to tweet

If @GregAbbott_TX tries to shut down the economy again, an option he says is on the table, people should not comply. Keep your businesses open, visit your friends, organize kids play groups. Ignore this petty tyrant. - Matt Rinaldi - former conservative Texas State Representative

They're telling themselves there's a 99.98% survival rate. Not sure there's any science backing that claim nor the long-term side effects of contracting C19, nor the implications of infecting others and the health risks associated with that for the innocent victims, but...

What are they responding to? - As Texas sets 3 more single-day records on coronavirus, Gov. Greg Abbott predicts next week will ‘look worse’ - Dallas Morning News

[Nevilledog]

1. They got that 99% shit from trump.

[BigmanPigman]

4. And Fux Ruse...but they are the same thing, aren't they.

[Nevilledog]

10. Yes *sigh*

[live love laugh]

12. That lie's been circulating on RW sites since March. nt

[waddirum]

2. Georgetown?

Do you mean Jonestown?

[ffr]

3. Yes

Thank you.

[Midnight Writer]

5. I'm in Illinois. Talked today to my niece, a teacher. She may not go back to work.

She has talked to the Superintendent of Schools, a couple of Board members, and there is no plan to open schools safely.

The attitude is this is overblown, kids are immune, it's just like the flu, and if you aren't already at death's door you have no worries.

She's been teaching 25 years, loves it, has built up seniority, but she has kids of her own and she says there is no way a teacher can enforce distancing, mask wearing, when you put 35 to 40 kids in a classroom.

She's not rich, but her husband works and will support whatever she does.

I've also talked to a local bartender and a local musician, both who want to work, have opportunities, but don't want to risk being in a bar or party environment.

[VMA131Marine]

6. If you have a confirmed case of COVID19

according to John’s Hopkins your chance of dying is 4.3%. However, this varies by age and we know older people and those with co-morbidities are more at-risk.

However, your chances of ending up in the hospital and then possibly the ICU are much higher. If you only look at the chance of dying you ignore the massive health car costs incurred in a hospital stay which could be burdensome even if you have health insurance. Then there are all the people who seem to have permanent damage to the lungs, heart, kidneys, and other vital organs. You might not die, but you could be permanently disabled.

The bottom line is that the raw survival rate doesn’t adequately encompass all the risks associated with getting COVID19.

[Make7]

7. Of the confirmed Covid-19 cases in Texas which had an outcome, 2.5% resulted in a fatality.

There are still 119,641 active cases - out of a total of 241,013 cases.

(using numbers from Worldometers)

[LudwigPastorius]

15. Texas is testing a percentage of its population well below the national average.

So, who knows how many cases there really are in the state?

And, who knows how many actual covid-19 deaths are being attributed to flu, pneumonia, old age, etc.?

I have a feeling that we won't know the extent of this thing until years down the line.

[BannonsLiver]

8. Ohh nut job on nut job violence!

[stonecutter357]

9. good chug away racist pigs !

[cayugafalls]

11. I'm surrounded by racist, anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, anti-critical thinking ASSHOLES.

They refuse to accept science. Except when it is convenient for them, like airplanes, cars, a/c, etc...

I just don't get it.

[Lock him up.]

13. Once again, one of the points is to prevent hospitals (and medical staff) to...

... get overwhelmed to the point of them having to select who they will try to save and who they will not try to save.

They can't get that obvious reason into their pea brains and they just follow their Dear Leader.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. Abbott and all the other Trump-humping enablers are starting to realize...

the political consequences of their complicity.

You can't support Trump and sane policies that treat people as anything other than political meat for his grinder at the same time.

You signed up for this, Greggo. As Trump's hydrocephalic base turns on you for contradicting their God-emporer, you'll realize that you threw it all away. You threw your political career away for a mentally-ill, criminal con man who wouldn't pee on you if you were on fire.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

16. "Survival" does not mean "recovery."

Scientists (remember them?) are discovering a plethora of side effects from the corona virus, with serious damage to the heart, lungs, and even the brain. You may get to the other side alive, but you might not be the way before you got this disease.

Trump will go down in history as a mass murderer.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. Politicians who make such statements ARE petty tyrants.

In the old days, a "former" state representative might get a small audience for his/her bullshit in the town newspaper or an interview on the local radio station. Therefore, their bullshit stayed local where it belongs and caused minimal damage.

However, in this day and age, any petty brainwashed tyrant can simply pick up a smart phone and broadcast extremely dangerous rhetoric literally to the entire planet on social media without even getting our of their pajamas and suffer no consequences.

Something is horribly wrong with this picture.

KY.......

[usajumpedtheshark]

18. Sounds like he is calling for a rebellion against the state government