Local officials’ “abundance of caution” didn’t apply to your business or household

Funny how quick local officials were to put citizens under pseudo-house arrest, make people close their businesses, and put thousands instantly out of work all out of a sense of extreme caution, but in cutting local government spending, they can drag their feet and give it all plenty of study over time.

This is a perfect sign of either incompetence or hypocrisy of mayors and city councils.

Either they do not understand fully that actual spending must be cut immediately in order to mitigate the overall effects of the coming revenue plummet or, they think it O.K. to shut your business down and put you out of work instantly with little to no study, but refuse to apply the same to local government.

It seems to me another case of government considering us its servant instead of the other way around.

Nursing homes, assisted living centers in San Antonio, Lubbock, Texas City, Galveston and other places as well as the state supported living center in Denton make up very significant number of COVID cases and fatalities in the state. A Wednesday Express-News headline was: One nursing home now accounts for almost half of San Antonio’s COVID-19 deaths.

Since I wrote about how our full time local public health agencies wasted resources and time shutting down places under speculative ideas of Wuhan virus spread as opposed to putting their full push into hardening and intensively monitoring known, highly dangerous, nexus points for spread, headlines and experience around Texas continue to prove that I was on to the biggest story of this outbreak. The bureaucracies failed again and mostly only reacted with intensive intervention in these places after outbreaks began spreading.

Update:

• Nearly 300 municipal employees furloughed in San Antonio amid coronavirus fallout