Do you have any idea whatsoever just how much members of the Texas Legislature are paid? In your effort to paint with as broad a brush as possible, you might consider doing a little research yourself. I know that’s an idea foreign to you, but it would be helpful, in my opinion.
Part of me wishes they'd actually re-open so I can rub all their faces in it when it blows up on them, but they'll all just pretend they were against reopening and won't take responsibility. They've mastered the art of lying to themselves and forgetting inconvenient events. Also a bunch of innocent people will die, which kind of takes all the fun out of the schadenfreude. Maybe we can start by opening only for Donald Trump campaign rallies, gun club meetings, and Cato institute round table events for about 6 months, and reevaluate the situation.
They are paid $7,200 plus per diem to make decisions that impact the public's best interest... and a big part of that "best interest" is the public's safety. They aren't "deciding which citizens can and can't earn an income who themselves are earning an income." You should be focusing your anger on why these decisions weren't made sooner so that we would have been further along in our public health and economic recovery.
They most certainly are deciding who and who can't work (essential/nonessential), how is that even in dispute? If you are a public servant decreeing other citizens must forego income, you should do so as well. The income amount is irrelevant.
perhaps I’m just a cynic, but I don’t think a politician’s salary is a good indicator of what they “earn.”
He has made 10's of millions (if not more) siphoning money from taxpayers to himself and his family, not to mention his friends.
Remdesivir is promising, but it's going to be an issue with supply and patents if it proves to be the best/only medicine for Covid19. Gilead is not known to pull punches regarding drug prices. That's the company that charges $90,000 for a course of Hep C treatment with Solvadi and Harvoni. If hydroxycloroquine works, then it's pretty much the best case scenario since it's an easy to make a generic drug that's easily produced. I hope SD's trials give us good data and that the politicians keep their hands off the trials and results to try to score political points.
This is old news. Now France has changed their mind. Macron visited personally the good doctor in Nice a few days ago, and said what a brilliant mind he is and they resume all hydroxycholoroqinue trials. He said "It's not my place as a president to say what works and doesn't work, that's for the doctors and scientists to find out"
Not at all. Certainly in Texas. Just as political affiliation isn't a good indication of how they feel about the virus, or shouldn't be.
So... if a chemical plant explodes and the local government closes the plant and all surrounding businesses... did the local government "decree that people can't work"? Or... did they close the local businesses to protect the local community? And, should the mayor forgo his salary? Again, your anger is targeting the wrong government... I'd be more mad at the guy who played golf, held campaign rallies, and traveled to India... while playing down the pandemic.
The mood is shifting and the dam is about to break - people are just going to start ignoring the lockdown. I already have. There's no evidence to support that it works. At all. And the reason for the lockdown - overwhelming the hospital's ability to treat patients - is no longer a threat.
