Lieutenant Byrd will need extra eyes watching out for him and his family, for sure, until things settle out more.

At no point could this have been me - I’ve never considered law enforcement as a career to start with, but if I had there’s no amount of money that would have me potentially taking bullets for people like Ted Cruz or Margarine Trash Goober.

For all the morons that are bashing this man for revealing his identity did you ever consider that people had informed him that conservative news outlets were going to out his identity and that he needed to get out in front of that before he was put even more on the defensive? I guess we will see how many of those…

Nailed it.

Glad to hear it, and admire the effort.  I still believe there is benefit in making the effort, I just have no energy to do it or tolerance for their willful ignorance.  Kudos!

Yes, that has worked for me for the past few weeks as well. I noticed after my initial disgust at speaking with friends and family members (over the phone) and finding them vax -averse, I just shake my head, don’t invite them to things and don’t think about them anymore. It has taken my stress levels down significantly

I work with some folks who were hesitant, so I focused on people I care about and/or don’t want to have to replace. Narrowed that number down to a manageable population and kept hammering at it.  It worked.

I calculate it at 29.33% of black folks getting vaccinated in TX compared to 38.5% of white folks getting vaccinated in TX. It’s certainly a notable discrepancy. However, that’s just a difference of 319K black folks getting the vaccine. Whereas the difference between TX vaccination rate vs. the national average is…

Make sure you add “You can cure it with horse dewormer” at the end because we have truly come full circle

I mean his statement is bullshit anyways because black people make up 12% of the population so even if 0 black people were vaccinated in Texas it would still be less people unvaccinated than white or hispanic people.  So the fact that the % are even close is him just trying to throw black people and democrats under…

There’s also the discussion of resource allocation and access to places that even offer vaccination. Not to mention other factors like if your job will give you time off to recover after getting the vaccine, plus the recommended 2 week quarantine after your second dose.

Boy this has been a real roller coaster 

Patrick is a racist asshat that is actively doing things that will cause people to get sick and die. He does not care about those people because it will help him get elected.

Yeah, Patrick’s not wrong that (currently) the vaccination rate in the black population is less than the rate in the white population... it just doesn’t support any of his conclusions. He said “biggest group” which is not a statement about rates. It’s a statement about size. And the biggest group, by size, of…

That’s the reason I’m not freaking out about all the ways they’re trying to game the voting restrictions. It’s not going to make a difference; the votes we’ll lose through the restrictions will be made up for by the lopsided death ratio Covid is giving us. It’s just another indicator of the slow death the GOP is…

Not just killing their supporters, but their leaders as well.

Not just voters, but the leaders as well. Google “GOP politicians who died from covid”

Can someone explain to me why DeSantis and Abbott continue to push policies that they must know are killing their constituents? What exactly do they think they are gaining from this ridiculous game?

I appreciate all your hard work on this article, but it doesn’t even have to be said. Throw Fox News, Texas and Covid in a big bag, mix it up, and it’s gonna come out “lie.” The people that need to know the truth of this don’t WANT to hear the truth of this.