Gov. Greg Abbott wanted state lawmakers to ban mask mandates in public schools. They didn’t. As Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to punish any school district that defied Abbott’s ban on mask mandates, Republican legislators were largely indifferent on the matter. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/07/texas-legislature-school-mask-mandates-abbott/
Texas doctor blames Texas republicans for 'killing their fellow Texans' https://boingboing.net/2021/09/07/t...ublicans-for-killing-their-fellow-texans.html A doctor on the frontlines, battling Texas' massive summer pediatric COVID-19 surge, blames the Republican governor and state legislature for inadequately responding to the pandemic. "Governor Abbott has failed us. A republican state legislature has failed us," said Dr. David Portugal a cardiologist in Sugarland, Texas. "These leaders should be held accountable and be asked to explain how they can justify taking actions that are killing their fellow Texans." Portugal and other Texas members of the advocacy group the Committee to Protect Health Care called on the governor to rescind his executive order barring local governments from mandating masks in schools. They are just a few of the many healthcare workers and local governments frustrated by the state's lack of action on preventing the spread of COVID. State officials recently admitted the bans were unenforceable by them, leaving it to local district attorneys. But the continued litigation and threats to school districts has left confusion and patchwork of policies that many doctors see as exacerbating the COVID surge. "Hospital staff and resources are stretched to the breaking point," said Dr. Elena Jimenez-Gutierrez, an internal medicine physician in San Antonio. The surge has led to canceled surgeries, overwhelmed staff and preventable hospitalizations and deaths.
How many of these pediatric COVID cases are deaths? Go ahead, go back to the beginning of the pandemic.
In a mere eight recent weeks COVID deaths of children have increased by over 33% from the previous total over the previous 15 months. The highly infectious Delta strain is more of an issue for children -- both in hospitalizations and deaths.
How many is the 33% increase, GWB? What are the actual numbers? Because if you go to 4 from 3, that's a grand total of one death. and it's 33%. Liars always figure.
It's easy for you to look up the numbers. Hint: I posted them previously. So once again to you it doesn't matter unless the children are dead. Hospitalizations and children suffering from Long Covid mean nothing to you. SAD.
If you posted them previously, then the only reason to not answer would be because the numbers are so underwhelming (as they are everywhere else). But, as usual, you obfuscate because you know the argument doesn't work in your favor. Children are relatively and statistically safe from COVID. the data is overwhelmingly on my side.
So tell us for instance -- how does the number of children deaths from Covid compare to the number of children who die of the flu in a typical (or even bad) season.