Keep Austin Sick
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I’ve been bringing up Florida a lot because of the convenient Lowry punchline, but the situation in Texas is similarly grim:
Thursday marked the seventh consecutive day that Texas reported a record number of hospitalized coronavirus patients, with 2,947 people currently in hospitals being treated for COVID-19, according to data released Thursday by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
The latest seven-day average for the number of people hospitalized is 2,468. Since the beginning of June, hospitalizations have increased almost every day. There’s almost twice as many people hospitalized because of the coronavirus than there was on Memorial Day.
Oh Texas, why didn't you listen? You are now New York in April. pic.twitter.com/PIIAvbviyA— Claire Potter (@TenuredRadical) June 19, 2020
The situation in Arizona is as bad or worse, and in all three states the governors are boasting about how they don’t plan to do anything except maybe make it harder for local governments to establish reasonable guidelines. It is going to get a lot worse in numerous states before it gets better.