I see that the Governor of Texas announced (with great glee) yesterday that all Covid restrictions were to be lifted (including mask wearing) and that businesses could "return to normal", meaning nightclubs, sports venues, restaurants and bars could resume trading as if things were "normal". It's baffling to me that such stupidity is celebrated? I sincerely hope that Texas will "get away with it", but, nature being what nature is, i.e. ruthlessly efficient, I fully expect this psychopathic decision to cost thousands more (if not tens of thousands more) Texan lives before that desired state of normality is reached. Texas is not alone, Michigan, Louisiana and Mississippi also lifted restrictions.
In cold hard numbers Texas has had 45,000 deaths against a population of 29 million and an estimated total infection number of 2.7 million, this represents a death-rate of 1.7% of people infected. So far it has vaccinated (1st dose only) around 6 million people leaving an unprotected population of around 20 million people. These aren't good numbers, Texas ranks 48th (out of 50) in terms of vaccination rates in the USA. It will be sobering to see what unfettered transmission potential does for a disease like this. If the virus were sentient, I'm sure it would be thrilled at the opportunity to exponentially reproduce, and since it isn't sentient, it won't care a jot about the 250,000 or so people (statistically), i.e. 1-2% of 20M, that will suffer long term effects or potentially die if they contract it.
It's fairly plain to see from the inevitable statistical outcomes and clear financial motivations of this move, it represents a resumption of income for the rich and a potential death sentence for the poor. I think there should be a basic universal law regarding fitness to govern, if you can't read a fucking graph then you can't be anybody's leader, end of argument.
Our species really doesn't stand a chance does it.
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