he says for the most part we're going to continue to do what we've been doing through the end of May
They have a task force working on looking at all the facts and the numbers and the charts and everything and they're going to have another press conference on Monday to tell us what modifications or changes they might make to that
Also
Tito's vodka has been making hand sanitizer instead of vodka He's like some people are disappointed so they just dropped off 120 cases of advisor to the city
They're using an analogy for the idiots
The virus is a truck and it's driving along going 85 mph and it wants to go faster
And if we don't continue to apply the brakes it's just going to go out of control and crash
I'm pretty happy with that analogy
Wow they had to switch out the interpreter for the deaf I guess the other one's hands got tired
Wow burglaries are up 30%
The police chief was talking
They had at one point 200 policemen in quarantine
Office of emergency Management is talking now
Well he didn't really have that much to say
Oh White House gave us some hand sanitizer too
somebody just asked him if he was in lockstep with the governor and he said oh that's a pretty strong statement He's like let's just say I agree with his statement that we should close schools for the rest of the semester
I I really like him. we have term limits but he was just reelected in 2019 so I think we've got him for a few more years.
He's like we need ubiquitous testing we need faster results testing we need contact tracing and I agree with all of that stuff but I don't think Governor Abbott thinks we need any of that stuff and what's his f*** thinks we should throw everybody on the funeral pyres so I'm sure he doesn't think we need that.
The testing is the key piece he says and once you have that then you can determine how fast you can go.
See see we have a coherent leader in the city but the city is predominantly blue well purple but the state leadership is all like drinking the Kool-Aid.
Somebody asked him about the he called it a makeshift hospital but I guess it's a field more like a field hospital outside the NRG stadium he said now we're talking about opening everything up so we just built that is that sending mixed signals and the mayor was like look we're trying to be proactive Make sure we had the hospital space that we needed and because of the measures we've taken we didn't need as many as we could have needed but that doesn't mean it wasn't a good idea to do.
He's like you know we canceled the rodeo.
He's like you know we looked at what was going on in Washington State and some of the other places and we said well you know it's possible that our hospitals could reach capacity and he's like and you don't want to be in a situation where you've overreached capacity and everybody's like well why didn't you do something so it's better to overprepare than to underprepare so that's what we did.
So you see from these questions that people are asking You can tell that it's entirely possible and from all the protests nationwide with the freaky red hat people that you know where this is going is if it doesn't all blow up and get the worst it could possibly be in everybody die they're going to say oh this was all the big hoax and we didn't need to do any of it That's where I'm afraid it's going.
Somebody asked him are you making masks mandatory now and he's like let's say it's a very strong ask if I'm going to make it mandatory then I we'll be making them available to low-income and high-risk groups. Because when you make a mandate you have a correspondent responsibility to make things available to people who may not be able to afford them.
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Somebody just asked him if the governor is saying that everything should open back up which it's looking now like he's going to then will you open everything back up and he's like well you know he's the governor so his rulings trump mine and everybody has to take responsibility for their own decisions but I just want to say that this virus has not gone away and we need testing.
The health department guys talking now and he's saying that if we could do track and trace we wouldn't need to shelter in place but we need more testing and he was talking about Singapore and how how Singapore locked everything down but then things started to level off and they open back up and then they had a big problem and they're studying that because it's a completely different culture and they want to see kind of what they did wrong and what they did right since that seems to be the direction the state is going.
Health department guy says this virus since you have the asymptomatic shedders You really have to be able to track and trace where there's no way to get ahead of it.
So I mean these people are all talking sense.
The mayor says he wants doctors to become vocal advocates for what is the best thing for public health because you know he knows they're busy and they're doing a lot of important stuff but they need to contribute to the political dialogue so that the politicians don't make decisions that are not in the interest of the doctors and then we all end up paying the price.
And now he's off to go to a virtual prom so I mean that's kind of nice and he was also driving around to churches and writing down license plates of people who were churches since they weren't locked down so they would know that he did not approve cuz he told him not to gather.
So I don't know if that really made me feel less nervous or not because even though the people locally seem to be sensible I don't have any faith in the governor man I miss Ann Richards
Okay so now I'm about crazy man talk in the press briefing
