Conservative think tank leader says schools should reopen since most Texans dying from COVID-19 are

[RandySF]

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Vance Ginn, the chief economist for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is facing fierce backlash for a recent racist tweet that said schools should open since most of the people dying from coronavirus in Texas are elderly or Hispanic.

Before Monday, the state’s racial and ethnic breakdown of deaths had large gaps, with up to 18% of deaths last month recorded as “unknown.” A revised count of the data released on Monday by the Department of State Health Services, however, shows that Hispanic Texans are overrepresented in the state’s updated fatality count.

Citing the revised data, Ginn tweeted that the people most likely to perish from the deadly virus are people older than 50 and Hispanics, whose death rate is up from 24.8% to 47.4% from May 27 to July 27. Hispanics make up about 40% of the state’s population.




https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/28/vance-ginn-texas-coronavirus/

[dchill]

1. Proving that the phrase "Conservative think tank" is an oxymoron.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. That's Where I Went, Too

"Think" tank?
There isn't much thinking going on in that joint.

[stillcool]

2. So...the virus is doing a good job in Texas

[dalton99a]

5. Kick