Dems Blame Abbott for COVID Surge, Conveniently Ignore Place Cases Are Exploding

Texas is experiencing a surge in COVID circumstances that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is being blamed for, even supposing the state’s border is actually open due to the Biden administration’s immigration insurance policies.

Abbott is being savaged because the Lone Star State experiences a 3rd wave of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations. The scenario is reportedly so critical that Abbott has requested for assist from out-of-state, in accordance with the Associated Press.

Abbott on Monday ordered the Texas Division of State Well being Providers to make use of staffing companies to seek out staff from different states as two county-owned Houston hospitals arrange tents on their properties. The order got here amid a reported scarcity of nurses.

Moreover, the governor reportedly despatched a letter to the Texas Hospital Affiliation requesting state hospitals voluntarily postpone all elective medical procedures. Abbott is making an attempt to make use of the instruments at his disposal whereas Democrats in Texas and elsewhere blame the spike in circumstances on his ban on masks mandates and his refusal to violate civil liberties.

He actually has his share of critics:

It’s disgusting that Greg Abbott is asking for out of doors assist with Texas’s Covid surge whereas barring native officers from appearing to guard residents from that very same surge. He and Ron DeSantis have proven new depths of contempt for public service. My newest:https://t.co/o9NsJUoq0E

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 10, 2021

There’s a disaster unfolding in our public colleges.

In Garland ISD, 31 workers and 224 college students have ALREADY examined constructive for COVID-19.

We have now the facility to forestall many of those circumstances with masks, however Abbott and Patrick would quite Texans get sick and college be disrupted.

— Mike Collier (@CollierForTexas) August 8, 2021

I want the next assertion was over-the-top, hysterical rhetoric, but it surely’s not:@GregAbbott_TX is knowingly making selections that can lead on to Texans dying – lots of them youngsters.

Abbott is uncaring, incompetent, harmful.#txlegehttps://t.co/mgGchuTMTP

— Matt Angle (@LSPmatt) August 4, 2021

My son and daughter begin 1st and seventh grade in the present day. As they do:

-Covid circumstances/hospitalizations are surging in Texas, together with amongst youngsters.

-Gov. Abbott has banned colleges from requiring masks.

-schools gained’t be required to tell dad and mom of Covid outbreaks within the classroom.

— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) August 9, 2021

However Abbott on Tuesday pointed the finger for his state’s troubles precisely the place it belongs: on the Biden administration.

The governor shared a report from Breitbart News which identified that 20 % of migrant youngsters who’ve crossed the border and been launched by Border Patrol brokers have examined constructive for COVID.

“Biden did not safe the border. Now, the disaster he created continues to deteriorate as he knowingly imports COVID into our state. Texas will defend our communities & maintain Biden accountable,” Abbott tweeted.

About these Houston hospitals? It appears extra seemingly than not that the amenities’ tents are associated to President Joe Biden’s border disaster:

Beneath settlement, migrants transferred to Laredo from RGV not keep in metropolis. As a substitute, they’re processed by Border Patrol, launched to metropolis personnel and despatched elsewhere — Austin, Dallas and Houston — aboard contracted buses.

The method excludes COVID-19 testing. https://t.co/gvuEG1bQT8

— Valerie Gonzalez (@ValOnTheBorder) August 11, 2021

Tuesday was the primary evening that luxurious coach buses pulled in to choose up lots of of migrants launched by Border Patrol hours earlier. The buses have been headed to Houston.

A person directing the operation mentioned Catholic Charities funded the rides. pic.twitter.com/T5lVWZp0jo

— Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 7, 2021

An interactive map of circumstances surging throughout Texas from The Texas Tribune exhibits which locations are thought-about hotspots county by county. Within the final two weeks, the most important hotspot in Texas was Dimmit County alongside the border, with 21.8 COVID circumstances reported per 1,000 folks.

What’s happening in Dimmit County, you may ask? Let’s have a look:

Dimmit County, Texas. It consists of a big ICE detention facility in Carrizo Springs, which *could* assist clarify their extraordinarily excessive case price, which is disturbing.

— Charles #GetVaxxed! 💉 (@charles_gaba) July 15, 2021

Yeah, there’s a migrant detention facility within the county amid an unprecedented surge in migrants throughout a pandemic that Democrats would love us all to imagine threatens all of our lives.

Texas management isn’t accountable for the surge in circumstances the state is experiencing.

The White Home opened the border and might be laughing at Abbott and Texans because the collective left pretends there isn’t a correlation between COVID-positive unlawful immigrants being imported into the state and an uptick in circumstances elsewhere.