Abbott's Body Count

[TexasTowelie]

Inmates from the El Paso county jail zipping up dead bodies in white plastic bags and stacking them like sacks of leaves inside metal containers that have become makeshift morgues. This is Governor Greg Abbott’s legacy: too inept to respond effectively, too petty to work with others, and too weak to make hard decisions. How many of the nearly 22,000 Texans we lost this year from COVID-19 could have been saved under stronger, better leadership?

While the media latches onto the easy horse race narrative of political posturing, eating up obvious comments that he is running for re-election, Abbott’s body count continues to increase at a rate worse than most other states. COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death in Texas and its mortality rate is higher compared to other states. More than six times as many Texans have died from COVID since just March than died during the entire twenty years of the Vietnam War.

Like Donald Trump, Abbott was ill-prepared to respond to this pandemic and he has dithered and blundered all year, concerned more about his personal politics than the deaths and economic fallout hurting every Texan.

Precious Time Wasted

In March, as the nation watched the virus spread like wildfire in Europe and New York, Abbott wasted precious time. Medical professionals made it clear we were not prepared to trace and stop the spread and we were woefully short of medical supplies. The lack of testing meant that the only real way to slow the spread was to implement safety measures like strong social distancing and mask wearing. Abbott did neither. Instead he froze like a deer in headlights, scared of unhinged extremist outrage about wearing safety gear that would have slowed down the virus and done less damage to the Texas economy.

Read more: https://lonestarproject.net/2020/11/24/abbotts-body-count/

[sprinkleeninow]

1. Immoral. Sickening. eom

[keithbvadu2]

2. Abbott said Texas has plenty of hospital beds.

Abbott said Texas has plenty of hospital beds.

[beachbumbob]

3. Abbott, DeSantis, Noem, Reynolds, etc all sat on the sidelines when any effort on their part would

have saved lives. The list of Governors who failed their states are almost ALL republican.

[Paladin]

4. Never forget.

And save some long-term scorn for that piece of shit Lt. Gov. Danny Goeb "Patrick," for his expressed desire that old Texans like me die of Covid, to keep his stock portfolio profitable.