Flashback: Beto Says Tx. Gov.’s Move to Lift the Mask Mandate a ‘Death Warrant’ for State

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O'ROURKE: "I don’t know why he would do this. I know that in doing so, many more of our fellow Texans are going to die beyond the 44,000 who have already succumbed to Covid in the ill-prepared way that he met the pandemic and in the botched rollout of the vaccines. And it’s disproportionately hit the communities that are already struggling, the lowest income, communities of color, and we know that those on the front lines, including our health care workers, will bear the brunt of the cost and consequence of this decision. Anderson, one of the things that people should understand is that Houston, Texas, the largest city in our state, one of the largest in America is the first city to have every single variant of the Coronavirus in one place. And that’s just beginning to take off. We have no idea what the spread of these new variants are going to do, but we do know that keeping a mask on, keeping 6-foot distance, having some public health protocols are going to help save lives while we race towards the finish of having every single adult in America vaccinated by the end of May. Why he would give up now when we're so close to the end, I don’t know."