Why Is Everyone in Texas Not Dying?

 When the Governor of Texas called an end to the COVID lockdowns and announced that masks will not be mandated by the state, lots of mask-police out there said that thousands would soon die because of their blatant disregard for science and their lack of concern for their fellow humans.

It turns out that people everywhere in Texas are not dying!  The COVID numbers are coming down the same as they are in every other state.

This is going to make the mask-Nazis very unhappy.  Read below what many of the "We're all going to die!" Democrats had to say when Texas announced it was opening up.

I'm sitting at a bar in Texas, surrounded by maskless people, looking at folks on the streets walking around like life is normal, talking with nice and friendly faces, feeling like things in the world are more-or-less normal. Cases and deaths attributed to Covid are, like everywhere else, falling dramatically. 

If you pay attention only to the media fear campaigns, you would find this confusing. More than two weeks ago, the governor of Texas completely reversed his devastating lockdown policies and repealed all his emergency powers, along with the egregious attacks on rights and liberties.

There was something very un-Texan about those lockdowns. My hotel room is festooned with pictures of cowboys on horses waving guns in the air, along with other depictions of rugged individualism facing down the elements. It’s a caricature but Texans embrace it. Then a new virus came along – as if that had never happened before in Texas – and the new Zoom class took the opposite path, not freedom but imposition and control. 

After nearly a year of nonsense, on March 2, 2021, the governor finally said enough is enough and repealed it all. Towns and cities can still engage in Covid-related mischief but at least they are no longer getting cover from the governor’s office. 

At that moment, a friend remarked to me that this would be the test we have been waiting for.

A complete repeal of restrictions would lead to mass death, they said. Would it? Did the lockdowns really control the virus? We would soon find out, he theorized. 

I knew better. The “test” of whether and to what extent lockdowns control the virus or “suppress outbreaks” (in Anthony Fauci’s words) has been tried all over the world. Every serious empirical examination has shown that the answer is no. 

The US has many examples of open states that have generally had better performance in managing the disease than those states that are closed. Georgia already opened on April 24, 2020. South Dakota never shut down. South Carolina opened in May. Florida ended all restrictions in September. In every case, the press howled about the coming slaughter that did not happen. Yes, each open state experienced a seasonality wave in winter but so did the lockdown states. 

So it was in Texas. Thanks to this Twitter thread, and some of my own googling, we have a nice archive of predictions about what would happen if Texas opened. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom said that opening Texas was “absolutely reckless.”

Gregg Popovich, head coach of the NBA San Antonio Spurs, said opening was “ridiculous” and “ignorant.”

CNN quoted an ICU nurse saying “I’m scared of what this is going to look like.”

Vanity Fair went over the top with this headline: “Republican Governors Celebrate COVID Anniversary With Bold Plan to Kill Another 500,000 Americans.”

There was the inevitable Dr. Fauci: “It just is inexplicable why you would want to pull back now.”

Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke of Texas revealed himself to be a full-blown lockdowner: It’s a “big mistake,” he said. “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that it’s also a cult of death.” He accused the governor of “sacrificing the lives of our fellow Texans … for political gain.”

James Hamblin, a doctor and writer for the Atlantic, said in a Tweet liked by 20K people: “Ending precautions now is like entering the last miles of a marathon and taking off your shoes and eating several hot dogs.”

Bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald flipped out: “Goddamn. Texas already has FIVE variants that have turned up: Britain, South Africa, Brazil, New York & CA. The NY and CA variants could weaken vaccine effectiveness. And now idiot @GregAbbott_TX throws open the state.” He further called the government “murderous.” 

Epidemiologist Whitney Robinson wrote: “I feel genuinely sad. There are people who are going to get sick and die bc of avoidable infections they get in the next few weeks. It’s demoralizing.”

Pundit Bill Kristol (I had no idea that he was a lockdowner) wrote: “Gov. Abbott is going to be responsible for more avoidable COVID hospitalizations and deaths than all the undocumented immigrants coming across the Texas border put together.”

Health pundit Bob Wachter said the decision to open was “unforgivable.”

Virus guru Michael Osterholm told CNN: “We’re walking into the mouth of the monster. We simply are.”

Joe Biden famously said that the Texas decision to open reflected “Neanderthal thinking.”

Nutritionist Eric Feigl-Ding said that the decision makes him want to “vomit so bad.”

The chairman of the state’s Democratic Party said: “What Abbott is doing is extraordinarily dangerous. This will kill Texans. Our country’s infectious-disease specialists have warned that we should not put our guard down, even as we make progress towards vaccinations. Abbott doesn’t care.”

Other state Democrats said in a letter that the decision was “premature and harmful.”

The CDC’s Rochelle Walensky didn’t mince words: “Please hear me clearly: At this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. I am really worried about reports that more states are rolling back the exact public health measures we have recommended to protect people from COVID-19.”

Here;  https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-everyone-texas-not-dying

Did COVID kill people in America?  Yes, of course it did.  But you don't shut down the whole world and lock every single person up! If people are high risk then let them stay home.  Does drunk driving kill lots of people in America?  Yes, of course it does!  But you don't shut down every single road and make driving illegal until it stops!  Does the flu kill tens of thousands of Americans every year?  Yes it does!  But you don't tell everyone to stay home until flu season is over.

In the end we believe this was all about control.  The government wants to see how well everyone will do as they are told.  And for sure this was all about prepping us for the soon coming government of the Antichrist.

Short of the rapture, every single American is going to die of something.  The sad truth is that COVID killed mostly unhealthy, old people.  And unhealthy, old people are always going to die at a much larger rate than young, healthy people.  But bankrupting millions and forcing thousands of businesses to close forever is not going to stop mostly old and unhealthy people from dying.  

I'm truly sorry if your loved one died from COVID.  I'm also truly sorry if they died from cancer, heart disease or any other malady that killed them.  How many old people have died of loneliness and depression because the government has ordered that their own families can't be with them at all during their last years of life?