SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives talk coronavirus, week 16

July 14, 2020

Texas Progressives talk coronavirus, week 16

The hospitals were filling up in Houston by last Friday, but Gov. Strangeabbott still refused to cede any ground to local control on COVID response. Meanwhile, the Texas GOP was on its merry way of suing Mayor Sly Turner for grounding the state convention. (And they lost. And again on appeal to the state Supreme Court.)

That's even as a SIX MONTH OLD baby died in Corpus. While John Cornyn claims "we don't know" about kids catching or transmitting COVID.

Many nursing homes, especially big chains, just want your money; they don't care about the health of your COVID-positive loved one.

The Chronic notes how Abbott is facing flak from both GOP wingnuts (Montgomery County GOP exec board unanimously voted to censure him) and more and more Dems. It rightly noted in an editorial that, starting with him cutting off his own balls in the Shelley Luther case, these wounds are all self-inflicted. The political wounds. The thousands of dead and a state death rate now above 100 per 1 million, are inflicted on others.

Off the Kuff catalogs the many ways Greg Abbott failed during the COVID crisis.

Abbott has mentioned the possibility of a new "lockdown." He doesn't have the balls or the ethics to do it, though.

Meanwhile, some counties are now ordering refrigerated morgue trucks and trailers.

COVID is surging in rural areas and smaller counties, too. Beyond the story, the state school in Gainesville has been hard hit. The story also reflects the problems with a for-profit health model, and that includes doctors and hospitals, not just insurers.

Rick Casey posits that Greg Abbott misses having Joe Straus around to serve as the main punching bag for the wingnut coalition in the GOP.

Festivals and events continue to be cancelled. Fiesta San Antonio joins the State Fair of Texas, cancelled for the first time since World War II.

Big Tex says we'll meet again at the State Fair in 2021.

Paradise in Hell was sad to see that happen.

Reform Austin lists a number of prominent Texans who have contracted COVID-19.

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