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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I am just baffled by all the people who act like the various government closures are the problem, rather than an effort to stop a disease that is killing people. It's not just political. The local news here will have stories about changes in the restrictions, and then they'll interview business owners who will complain about how the restrictions make it hard to do business. Sure, but hello? The problem is that there is a pandemic killing your customers, and if you open your bar you will make it worse. Do they simply not get it? Patrick may be happy to kill himself, but most people aren't, it turns out.
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The idiotic part of all of this is that none of the speakers were planning on showing up to the convention floor. They were all going to be simulcast.
Patrick has been the loudest in bitching about shutdowns, masks, etc since the very beginning. It's not surprising that he's leading the charge now.
The favorite bitch on social media about this is that the mayor let the George Floyd protest happen (and spoke at it), with 60,000 people, but won't let the Republicans meet. They're ignoring that the protests were outside, mainly masked, and at a time when there were about 400 cases a day, not 1600+ with an, er, robust census at pretty much every hospital in the region.
I'm sure that if the Texas Republicans asked for a marching permit, someone would give it to them.
