A New Study Confirms That Reopening Texas ‘100 Percent’ Had No Discernible Impact on COVID-19 Cases or Deaths

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

This has been debunked in a number of places online.

http://ncov.bii.virginia.edu/dashboard/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Got any sources? Neither of those links debunk anything in the article.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I read an article recently that discussed the congressperson's claims about Texas, showing that there have been additional cases and deaths after re-opening, as would be expected, and the congressperson is obviously lying in order to play politics. I have not provided that article for you, and I don't want to look for it at the moment. If you don't believe me, you can look for the article by searching for the contressperson's name, Texas and COVID. I'm sure that will locate the responses to the congressperson.

Moreover, consider your source - reason.com - which is devoted to "center-right" news. It's not as bad as other right-wing websites, but it's also not giving you a reliable assessment of COVID cases in Texas. This is because their audience wants to believe that there is "no discernible impact on COVID-19 cases or deaths." They don't care about the facts.

Thus, to help you with the facts that are not mentioned by the ironically titled, reason.com, I've kindly given you links to two of the various accounts of the actual COVID cases in Texas, so that you can take a look at the numbers. When you see the numbers, you will know that the headline and the article are not factual.

You ask, however, for sources, which can be easily located, while you also look at those numbers regarding COVID cases in Texas. This leads me to believe that you might not be interested in the facts. If that's the case, there's no immediate need to send you additional sources. I hope the two links I've provided will help, if you are interested in the number of COVID cases and deaths.

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Since you can't find the article or any other sources, I went back to the worldometers page you linked and found the cases chart: https://files.catbox.moe/vgb2qp.png

The point I have hilighted (March 2, 2021) is when governor Abbot lifted the mask mandate and opened Texas 100%. Doesn't look like much of a spike to me.

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It doesn't have to be a spike. Seems you refuse to look at the CDC records. Also, Texas controls what's reported to the CDC. At Saidit of all places, why would you trust the the government of Texas, or any government. In any event, what the CDC does know is that texas is still one of the worst-hit states re. COVID19, after the lockdown and beforehand.

EDIT: Also: I see that you chose a graph that is posted after "Total Coronavirus Cases in Texas" and before "Total Coronavirus Deaths in Texas", both of which show a rise in total numbers. Yes, you can look at the daily reports, which are controlled by Texas, but the two other graphs regarding total numbers are more important for understanding the bigger picture.

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"At Saidit of all places, why would you trust the the government of Texas, or any government."

Who TF are you

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Need I explain this? Really? The alt-right agenda - generally and on Saidit - is that government is bad, and that dictators are good, and that you should trust your dictators, the ones who know everything and tell you what to believe. Fox News supports the disctators and gives you their approaches on a daily basis. In that manner, you can distrust everyone else, the government, science, facts, Wikipedia, vaccines, medicine, environmental laws, funding for education, people who might not be heterosexual, all foreigners, people of color, etc. etc. Perhaps I've missed one of the categories you are meant to hate on Saidit, but hopefully you get my point. (Or - alternatively - look at what's considered 'best practice' in other states and countries regarding gun laws, and hope that your elected officials will look after you and not allow unlicensed lunatics to easily get guns and murder you [lest you purchase your own arsonal and carry a gun at all times]).