Smart comment from a great songwriter.
Texas is even worse ’cause down here if a bar tries to implement a mask mandate or anything like that, the state threatens their liquor license. Anybody that crosses [Texas Governor Greg] Abbott know it’s gonna get shut down. I don’t understand why the Fed’s tellin’ Texas what to do is government overreach, but the state of Texas tellin’ a private business what to do is patriotism somehow! It makes no sense whatsoever.
All it really is Abbott wants to get reelected, and he has to be the meanest Republican in the room if he’s gonna do that. ‘Cause if he does anything even halfway sensible on a public health law, he’ll be instantly labeled a RINO [Republican In Name Only] and primary’d out. That’s just how mean it is.
As far as not bein’ told what to do with regard to public health, it’s ridiculous! When we were kids, we didn’t go to school if we didn’t get vaccinated for measles. That’s just how you do public health. It’s a collective threat, and it requires a collective response. And that requires government mandates. Part of what government has to do is protect the wise from the stupid. Texas hospitals are full! I better not have a car wreck or a heart attack ’cause I’m not gonna get a bed they’re jammed full of unvaccinated morons who got COVID!
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