Thread by @JacksonLeeTX18

1/5 I am more than disappointed and, in fact, stunned by the removal of the COVID-19 mandates in the State of Texas that has for many weeks been a hot spot for COVID-19. These are the numbers that are real: 504,499 deaths in the United States, 46,738 currently hospitalized, and

2/5 28,399,281 infections; 42,995 deaths in Texas, 5,611 currently hospitalized, and 2,647,845 cases. It is shocking that after meeting with President Biden, who made every commitment to provide more vaccines to Texas because of the large impact of COVID-19 amongst the state’s

3/5 population. That five days after that visit, the governor would pull the rug from underneath the people of Texas and steer us in the direction of COVID pandemonium by lifting the mask mandate and all restrictions. The state should instead maintain wearing our masks, social

4/5 distancing, washing our hands, getting tested if we do not have the vaccine and then ultimately getting vaccinated when we have access to it. So when we do return back to normal, we can stay open because we are fully recovered and we have done all that we could to save lives

5/5 and to make sure that we do not return to the disaster of COVID-19 infections. Lastly, does the governor not know that there are variants that are now expanding into the United States and that science does not know how deadly they will be. Enough is enough.