San Antonio’s surge this summer — tens of thousands of cases, thousands of hospitalizations, hundreds of deaths — is a direct result of this.
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Texas officials prevented local ones from shutting down again & mandating masks until the state was already on fire.
That doesn’t make up for bungled public health messaging early on that told people masks weren’t necessary & the flu was worse, ideas that have been disproven but still persist among segments of the population.
It was preventable. So are the long-term health consequences that thousands of others may now suffer from because they managed to survive a horrible disease. The financial ruin.
This, too, would be preventable.