Texas, Florida and Arizona officials say early reopenings fueled explosion of coronavirus cases
Source: MSN
Local officials in states with surging coronavirus cases issued dire warnings Sunday about the spread of infections, blaming outbreaks in their communities on early reopenings and saying the virus was rapidly outpacing containment efforts.
“We don’t have room to experiment, we don’t have room for incrementalism when we’re seeing these kinds of numbers,” said Judge Lina Hidalgo (D), the top elected official in Harris County, Tex., which encompasses the sprawling Houston metro area. “Nor should we wait for all the hospital beds to fill and all these people to die before we take drastic action.”
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Frustration about the pandemic response has mounted among local leaders, who say they have had to grapple with conflicting orders and frequently changing guidelines from governors and the White House as they try to curb sharply rising infections.
After Texas reported another single-day record for new coronavirus cases over the weekend, Austin Mayor Steve Adler (D) told CNN’s “State of the Union” that there won’t be enough medical personnel to keep up with the spike in cases if the rate of increase continues unabated in his city.
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Even in California, you have some local governments pushing to reopen early due to Trump supporters showing up at meetings to bitch them out with made for Facebook tirades:
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Oy!
You got stumpy throwing farmers into the unemployment lines, thanks to tariffs
on usofa crops...thusly starving you, the traitor is giving you bad info on a killer
disease..your president is trying to kill you...And succeeding....
