I chuckled when I read this headline from the Texas Government Insider: “Texas cities, counties eligible to receive $11.24B from Coronavirus Relief Fund.”
The story began with: “More than $11.24 billion from the $150 billion Coronavirus Relief Fund is set to go to the state of Texas and several of its cities and counties, according to guidelines the U.S. Department of the Treasury published this week based on U.S. Census Bureau population data.”
No wonder so many of them are dragging their feet and refusing to call it quits on the local tyranny, it’s a financial windfall that might be a net gain even after a sales tax fall off and if they quit now they might not get as much in later “rounds” of Washington panic spending.
Social distancing
Social distancing was enacted not to reduce the number of people who catch the COVID-19 virus but only to spread out the time such infections happened in order prevent a run on hospital services. We are past most of the predicted “peaks” on the calendar and on Monday, Texas reported only 16,455 positive-tested cases of the virus.
…of the 1,150 confirmed coronavirus cases in Dallas County, 500 were hospitalized. More than 2,100 patients with the flu have been hospitalized over the same four-week period.
That’s not many compared to 29,000,000 people. But more importantly the number of Wuhan virus patients being treated in Texas hospitals dropped to 1,411, according to the figures reported the Texas Department of State Health Services.
There are over 54,000 staffed hospital beds in Texas. That’s less than 3% of Texas staffed beds. Flu seasons often see higher numbers than this and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson pointed out such last week when he reported: “…of the 1,150 confirmed coronavirus cases in Dallas County, 500 were hospitalized. More than 2,100 patients with the flu have been hospitalized over the same four-week period.”
This is one of the stupidest stunts ever pulled on the American people. We’ve had plenty of viruses before why is this one any different. To shut down everything was unnecessary. People die everyday to ruin the economy over power and control is pretty sad.
Sue, I have been saying this since it started. And I still have a feeling this was strategically planned. Time will tell .. [ my gut feelings are usually correct ] . Yes, …….totally unnecessary to shut down the country.
I have felt from the beginning this was an overblown hoax. It was the smoke and mirrors created by the Democrats to keep the Republicans from being able to campaign. I feel Trump will win re-election; however, we must have control of both Houses for the country to get its’ “sea legs” back. Each town, village, city should re-open according to the number of cases they have had. For instance, I certainly don’t feel Lubbock is ready because I understand we had a big increase today in the number of cases. Of course, the news had to say it was from nursing homes. If people can’t visit and HR are supposedly policing their employees – why is there an increase? I don’t think cities should be bailed out by the federal government, and the only people who should be helped are low income and single parents.
“Cases” are the wrong thing to track when the data shows most all who have the virus do not have serious complications. The case numbers more represent the increase in testing than an increase in the spread of the virus. The odds are, as other data are beginning to show, that the virus was in Lubbock for months before we knew and that many people had it. As to nursing homes, I was the first to write about this major failure of the public (gov’t) health service: https://prattontexas.com/2020/04/02/local-health-officials-wasted-time-on-the-speculative-early-on/