As Texas sees record coronavirus cases, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he won't listen to Dr. Fauci

[Mike 03]

Syracuse.com
Updated 8:41 AM; Today 7:56 AM

Coronavirus continues to spread in Texas, hitting a record 6,975 new cases Tuesday after three previous record highs last week.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick defended the state’s Covid-19 response on Fox News Tuesday night, insisting Texas is doing better than New York.

“We’ve had 2,424 people die and New York has had over 31,000. Even California has had almost three times as much (coronavirus deaths) as Texas,” Patrick told Laura Ingraham. “And remember, those states have been locked down the entire time while we have been open, so locking down doesn’t work. If it did, those states would be doing better than Texas.”

New York has reported 24,855 deaths from coronavirus as of Monday. It’s unclear where Patrick got the 31,000 figure from.

Patrick then criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, for saying Texas “skipped over” some reopening guidelines during a Senate hearing earlier Tuesday. Fauci warned cases could grow to 100,000 a day in the U.S. if Americans don’t start following public health recommendations, such as wearing masks and practicing social distancing.

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[Beartracks]

1. Texans, Dan Patrick is perfectly fine with you dying off...

... as long as more New Yorkers die than you. You're not people to him, you're just points in a game.

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[blm]

3. ✔️

[uponit7771]

12. 👍

[secondwind]

2. What an ignoramus!!

[dalton99a]

4. Reopening bars and gyms DURING a record spike worked real well for Texas

[treestar]

5. He is overlooking that the infections did not begin

At precisely the same time in all three states.

So he manages to be more well known than the governor by getting attention for such spectacular stupidity.

[LiberalFighter]

6. It should be legal to slap the idiot with a 2x4.

[Midnightwalk]

7. Electing idiots has consequences

New York City is extremely densely populated. People rely on public transportation because driving is expensive and inconvenient comparatively. They got hit early and shutdown maybe not as fast as they should.

People around the country watched national peak projections and believed we had one trajectory. You have to look at your own state's peak to understand where you are, and the national peak because people travel interstate all the time.

Comparing NY's total deaths after their peak to Texas's total deaths before the Texas peak is an amateur type mistake.

That's why responsible leaders ask real experts.

It's easy to throw together arithmetic on numbers. I do it all the time. It's harder to do it in a meaningful way.

Intelligent people rely on experts and ask questions until they understand.

But I bet taking a jab at New York played real well on Fox News and in Texas.

[Cha]

8. There really should be some extra special

KARMA zeroing in on these idiots who risk people's lives to make their stupid political points.

It's unfathomable how maliciously stupid they are.

[MrsCoffee]

9. All that tells me is they probably aren't testing and reporting.

I call bullshit on his numbers.

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. Tip of the cup to u - agree totally, controlling the numbers like counting the votes is key.

[Alacritous Crier]

11. Peak ignorance.

[Paladin]

13. Fuck you dead, Dan Patrick.

Failed sportscaster, failed bar owner, failed Limbaugh-wannabe AM radio hate spewer...and now, a failed state official who keeps a set of kneepads nearby for whenever trump visits Texas. An ignoramus who repeatedly states his wish that old people die from the virus to bolster the stock market. A piece of shit, even by Texas republican standards.

I trust I've made myself clear.....

[snowybirdie]

15. I agree mostly with you

But the sportscaster, Dan Patrick, is a different person, altogether. The tv guy is located in Connecticut and broadcasts daily on YouTube. Like his show.

[Paladin]

18. Sincere apologies for the confusion.

I'm aware of the GOOD Dan Patrick; I've been listening to him for years. As for the BAD SCUMBAG TEXAS RIGHT-WING Dan Patrick I was busy insulting: He did in fact have a brief and embarrassing career as a sports spewer on one of the Houston TV channels, after he moved to Texas from Maryland and changed his last name from "Goeb" to "Patrick."

Sorry about that; I generally make a distinction between the two Dan Patrick's.

[roamer65]

14. 🦠

Hold my beer.

[Initech]

16. What could possibly go wrong?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. New York has almost 4X the population density of Texas.

416 persons/sq.-mi. VS 108 persons/sq.-mi.

That simply means it takes longer for the virus load to permeate into their populace and it will. A number of rural areas in the U.S. are currently proving it.

That also makes the highly susceptible to complacency.......

Texans love big get-togethers in churches, bars, restaurants, night clubs and sports events.

Patrick is a typical cold-hearted, hard right-wing "laissez-faire everything" idiot.

[Ilsa]

19. Someone, please, give him the disease. nt

[central scrutinizer]

20. According to the Johns Hopkins site,

New York has had over 32,000 deaths. Where did the 24,855 come from?

[Phoenix61]

21. When the orange idiot said he was going to

shut down travel from Europe everyone there scrambled to get back here. A huge number landed in NY. This is why the covid virus in NY cases is the same as the one in Europe and not China. I really wish people would science more.

[duforsure]

22. He's just another example of why the response in Texas has failed so badly there.

He and Abbott tried to defeat the virus with their BS, and prematurely reopening from trump , and it had no chance of working , and now will cause worse economic problems in Texas, with greater spreading of this virus. They are really looking pretty stupid doing what they've done, and the medical experts should be calling all the shots, not them. trump and republicans have failed , and are now destroying the economy in the process from it. It will take many years , not months to return it to where it was. The American people will not forget who is responsible for a long , long time.

[Beartracks]

23. Patrick, bro, do you even science?