'Abbott has failed us': Doctors lash out at Texas GOP for reckless COVID-19 policies

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Greg is killing his voters

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One of Abbott's outspoken critics is Sugarland, Texas-based cardiologist David Portugal, a member of the group Committee to Protect

Health Care. Portugal is urging Abbott to reverse his executive order forbidding public schools from having mask mandates.

Portugal told Texas Public Radio, "Gov. Abbott has failed us. A Republican state legislature has failed us. These leaders should be held accountable and be asked to explain how they can justify taking actions that are killing their fellow Texans."

Dr. Elena Jimenez-Gutierrez, who practices internal medicine in San Antonio, is warning that hospitals are being overwhelmed by COVID-19 in Texas.

Jimenez-Gutierrez told Texas Public Radio, "Hospital staff and resources are stretched to the breaking point…. Doctors and other health care workers see every day how too many Texans are needlessly getting sick, including many children when we know this disease can be prevented."

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who has no party affiliation, fears that the crisis in Texas hospitals is only going to get worse in the weeks and months ahead.

[Hekate]

1. KnR

[Tree Lady]

2. What is amazing to me is he hasn't

Gone down in the polls as much as Florida governor.

[IcyPeas]

3. Why arent the media blasting this fact hourly

We have at least 2 governors responsible for the deaths of, who knows how many, people every damn day.

[elias7]

7. They're too busy trashing Biden on Afghanistan

[LeftInTX]

4. Yet, they endorse this turd and donate to him over and over and over

I will wait until 2022 and see how they endorse.

Doctors unfortunately are a very right wing group.

[dchill]

5. This shit's gotta be illegal. Right?

[duforsure]

6. Abbott's history of killing people grows every day he's in office,

And his covid policies from him and the GOP , and failure to protect the energy grid causing more to die will come back to haunt him and the GOP for a long, long time. The only way he and some others will get re-elected is by fixing the election. This war on women, and children is only making it worse for them too, so what's next, taking women's right to vote away? Texans voting for him are really really ignorant people, and show it when they vote for this monster.

[area51]

8. Gov. Greg Abattoir. n/t