Hey everybody that pandemics over
at least according to a couple of
states, red states.
That's Greg Abbott over there.
He's the governor of Texas and
apparently everything's cool in
Texas because last, yesterday he
tweeted, I just announced Texas is
100% open everything.
EVERYTHING.
I also ended the state
wide mass mandate.
So, I don't know it almost seems
like a guy who's confessing his
crimes.
But the thing is that we live in
a country where what he's doing
although it will kill far more
people than even the most ambitious
serial killer could ever expect to
be able to pile up everything
he's doing is legal, I guess.
And so that's what's happening and
it's not just Texas although we
will be focusing on Texas.
Shortly after that announcement,
Governor Tate Reeves announced that
he would end Mississippi's
statewide mass mandate,
effective Wednesday of this week.
So like, now.
And, look, Greg Abbott said that
the reason that they could do this
is because they were at a four
month low in Texas for cases,
hospitalizations and deaths,
which is good to see those
numbers go down.
They're still not great
nationally, though.
So let's take a look
at the most recent numbers.
You can see there that tests
are regrettably lower, and
we'll talk more about that cases
have certainly been following
are falling.
But they have the fall has kind of
stopped.
And you'll know that the number of
cases per day,
which has stopped falling is still
as high as that second peak was.
And you know what,
we did nationally right around then
is we started reopening, and
you know what happened after that?
A whole lot of people died in
places like Texas.
In Texas alone JR 44,353
people have died.
In just.
In Texas alone.
Well sorry up until now because now
they're reopening 100%, everything
reopened a full capacity,
no masks all of that.
>> So I'm curious because I'm not
in Texas, obviously.
What percentage were they opened
before the 100% because I
wonder what was left closed because
I'm sure it wasn't to the green
California I'm seeing many
people that live in Florida or
whatever the states and they're
hitting the gym and I was like wow
gyms are open in certain states.
This is amazing to me.
And it's mask wearing, but
in the gym.
It was like yeah,
I think I'll still avoid it.
But, it's up to them.
I wonder what's left?
What was the things in Texas that
we're like okay,
we can't open those though.
I mean bars were open in certain
states way earlier too.
Was bars the last realm?
What was the last hurdle?
That Texas had to reach to get
to 100 with all capitals every day,
what's the last thing that people
were still clamoring to get into
without their mask to make
sure they breathe and
spit on each other.
>> Yeah, look, I?
That's a good question.
I will also say that by the way,
we're focusing on the new states
that are fully reopening, but there
are other states including states
that are governed by democrats that
are not fully reopened.
They're not doing anything
like that,
but They are a good bit reopened.
I mean,
even you can get COVID outside of
Denny's right now if you want.
We feel somewhat reopened if you
want.
And so,
the thing for me is that it would
be one thing if this was a natural
response to the numbers going down.
If I thought it was actually being
driven by that even then it
wouldn't be as good as say,
waiting a month or two so
that significantly more people will
have the vaccine available.
This feels to me like the door is
closing on COVID deaths.
Let's just see how many
more we can get.
Come on.
We're almost losing our
opportunity.
We gotta get some more deaths but
it's the way he announced it, can
we briefly I apologize Brandon, can
we go briefly back to the tweet.
Everything, I also ended
the statewide mask mandate.
That feels to me like he wants
credit for, it's not that it's the.
>> Absolutely.
>> Best thing, he just wants to be
the guy who did it.
100% damn the deaths who cares
about the cases?
>> I did it, yeah, okay.
>> Just feels like.
>> So obviously because of that
nature, which is the first thing I
think everyone should notice about
these tweets, and the way that
Governor Abbott went about it.
This is a political move.
So they always talk about how stop
politicizing COVID you
talk about debts,
you talk about testing, you talk
about getting the numbers down.
You talk about mask mandates.
You talk about businesses closing,
you talk about relief bills,
you talk about people out of work,
all that stuff.
Let's stop politicizing COVID.
So when we talk about actually
helping people, mass
numbers of Americans that's great.
Politicizing COVID, but
announcing that you releasing
all restrictions, upping all mask
mandates and opening up everything,
with a tweet that says.
I just did this, I will do this.
I also did that,
that is a campaign style.
Politicizing up an event
to make sure that you are the one.
Remember he's been probably
President Donald Trump said,
I alone can do it.
This is the kind of talk and
rhetoric this is, it's me, it's me,
it's me I, I,
I you guys know it's me right?
You know when Texas was in that
deep freeze and then nothing was
being done and then all of the
power sources were unprepared for
the event did you see the governor
come out and going I did this?
It as me I'm the one
who was overseeing this.
I'm the one who took campaign
contributions and donations from
large corporations and let them do
whatever the hell they want.
Was he saying that then because he
was definitely him then too.
So it's very. >> Yeah.
>> Calculated into my who,
what they're going to openly and
boastfully take credit for and
if this doesn't work out, which.
I hope it does.
Let's keep it real. >> Yeah.
>> I hope people don't die in Texas
over this, and
that they were right.
And they can open up completely and
then the numbers don't go up.
It's just science doesn't really
lead to that direction and also,
previous history, just from last
year, doesn't really, make
us believe that's going to happen.
But, is it going to take credit
then if things go wrong.
We haven't seen that yet.
>> No, normally have to because,
I mean is just, they hate Trump,
for all the deaths like why do they
hate him?
Anyway?
Yeah, I hope that somehow
against all reason.
This doesn't lead to an increase in
cases that would be great, but for
a few reasons, one.
Because they're humans, and
I don't want them to die.
Two, because I have family in Texas
and lived in Texas for
a number of years.
And also, let's also acknowledge,
he's like, well,
we don't need all of this.
We can still exercise personal
responsibility.
But can you really?
So I'm not going to name names,
but I know that, so
the schools are totally reopened.
And they say that kids can't give
you COVID even though
they totally can and
they [INAUDIBLE] COVID themselves.
So they're not vaccinating, all the
teachers, I know a teacher in Texas
who's going to have to be there and
I'm sure he's going to wear a mask.
But he's still going to be
constantly surrounded by dozens and
dozens of people that might be
giving him COVID and he has to
be there, or else he loses his job.
So what is personal responsibility
in that case?
Is he supposed to stop his career?
>> I don't know.
>> I have another prediction
though, in addition to
the prediction that this is almost
certainly going to lead to
more cases and more deaths.
I guarantee that when it does,
someone on Fox news,
probably Tucker Carlson, will do
a segment about how hey, Biden said
we should all wear masks,
it was his dictate from the top,
and yet cases are going up.
Why is that?
And he'll pretend to not understand
that a bunch of Republican
governors are prematurely
reopening.
And not just Republican governors,
I'll remind you again but they
are the most out front about it.
This show that parallel to because
remember, and this is
a completely different issue,
but they can still use that type of
playbook when Obamacare was out.
And then all of the states had to
accept the medicaid exchanges and
make sure that they took in
the money.
Many of those states republican
states rejected it.
And it made it worse.
It made the healthcare situation
worse, it made Obamacare much more
ineffective in their state.
And after that happened they
look at Obamacare failing in my
state, bro.
You gotta accept it.
[LAUGH] You can't reject
the aspects of it and
then say how dare this not work?
Look at this bad plans.
Yeah, the bad plan was leaving it
up to you to accept the parts
that would be helpful.
That was the plan bad part
of the plan.
So same way that's just like you
were saying, though, things will go
badly, or could go badly.
And if they do, then we're going to
go ahead and blame the Biden
administration for what they did
somehow unrelated to this because
no one has to think clearly no one
has to have a real direct line
of thought process anymore.
This doesn't matter.
>> Exactly.
Now, really just a couple other
little tidbits of news that you
should know,
that could play into this.
There are of course,
more contagious variants of
the virus that are circulating in
the country that has the potential
to push case counts upwards.
So it's a great time to just tell
everyone to go out there and
not wear masks anymore.
Also, testing has fallen 30%
in recent weeks, which is
both objectively bad but also
when you have new COVID variants
ripping their way through America.
You probably want to be doing more
testing to track that down as
quickly as possible rather
than less.
And I also want to read one quote
from the director of
the CDC who said, please hear me.
me clearly.
At this level of cases with
variants spreading, we stand to
completely lose the harder and
ground we have gained.
>> Every time.
>> Yet we still have like 60,000
cases a day.
Do we want an April with 100,000
deaths?
because this is how you get in
April with 100,000 deaths I hope
against again all reason, but
that doesn't happen.
But if the Republican governors
in Texas and
Mississippi are doing this other
Republican governors are going to
want to get on that gravy train.
They're going to be pushing for
full reopenings a big state like
Texas started out see how
Mississippi followed suit and
that's exactly why it could work.
Now let's think about it also.
Well, my last thought on this,
this is the way just humans are it
doesn't have to be a liberal or
conservative or red and
blue state person in this stuff
to just be a human,
especially in American right now.
And we just kind of go with
the flow of how things feel.
It's like traffic, if everybody's
speeding, and you kind of go with
the flow next year, you're going 80
miles an hour, you're like I didn't
know I was going this fast.
But everyone is kind of relaxed.
I relaxed in some of
the things I was doing last April.
Not completely, but there's some
things that I don't do as like,
everything I've my finger has
touched.
I'm going to make sure that that's
in my pocket,
all that type of stuff, but.
In general, if you're releasing all
of these restrictions, and
saying wide open, everything's back
to normal, human nature's even when
they're not at the grocery store.
Whenever they're not going to
the gym, people are going to be
everything is fine again, hey,
everything has been lifted, and
it just becomes a normal routine.
So it doesn't always necessarily
have to be directed at the shops
and restaurants they go to just
their everyday daily lives and
interacting with each other.
It could be a problem.
>> Yeah.
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