In response to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s decision to open Texas “100 Percent” and end Texas’ mask mandate, Protect Our Care’s Coronavirus War Room Director Zac Petkanas issued the following statement:
“Governor Abbott’s announcement is a disastrous decision that will put millions of Texans at risk and deliberately sabotage the nation’s effort to end the coronavirus crisis.
“Just days after being panned for his failed response to the weather and power crisis, Governor Abbott has proven once again his complete lack of concern for the health and safety of his constituents by unnecessarily putting their lives in danger. His decision to ‘open 100 percent’ flies in the face of experts who have explicitly warned that doing so will guarantee more cases and deaths, and comes just one day after the CDC warned that ‘now is not the time’ to lift coronavirus restrictions.
“While the Biden Administration takes aggressive measures to ramp up vaccinations, enforce mask wearing, get the virus under control, and bring our economy back, Governor Abbott and Republicans across the country continue taking measures that will lead to more cases, more deaths and prevent our country from putting this pandemic behind us.”