Protecting kids not political
Abbott’s got COVID
Regarding “Editorial: How can Abbott protect Texas from COVID when he can't protect himself?” (Aug. 17): I have been struggling to come up with the right words to express my feelings about the news that Texas’ governor has come down with COVID. I think reveling in the immediate feeling of schadenfreude would be bad form. Instead, I want to encourage those opposed to simple precautions for our children to wake up. Kids aren’t vaccinated like the governor. Regeneron therapy is not widely available and is not for children. COVID is not — let me repeat — COVID is not political. Health precautions for children are not political. By banning schools from mandating masks for children our putative leader may have sentenced a number of our children and grandchildren to death.
The failure to lead, demonstrated by his political pandering with the mandate ban, is reprehensible.
As stated by the Houston Chronicle in its editorial, our governor is not “a champion of personal freedom” and is only “a mascot of incompetence.” My hope is that he recovers, but only after getting sick enough to realize that perhaps
he should do all he can to prevent our kids from suffering the same illness.
Tanner Garth, Houston
Your slam at Gov. Abbott in the Wednesday opinion section was predictably snarky and petty.
The fact that the governor has an asymptomatic case of COVID does not diminish the validity of his executive orders. Rather it only supports the efficacy of the vaccine as a prophylactic against COVID’s more serious consequences.
Jon Elmendorf, Houston