The Texas GOP convention will gather thousands of people indoors without a mask requirement. One of

[marble falls]

11. Its a mind set you have to be here to really appreciate. My wife and I would have left here ...

years ago except for her Trumpite 94 year old mom. Now we are getting too old to leave ourselves. We've lost friends from the politics of Covid. We've been masked and self quarantined for six months. We feel exiled. We've heard and seen things we can't believe. And now Covid is finally really hit here in the Hill Country.

My dad lives in Arizona. My daughter lives in Florida.

And I know if we had any leadership at all in these three states there would have been a mandatory extended shutdown with mandatory masks and things would not have been ended, but would have been a lot less deadly.

NYC certainly demonstrated that as bad as it could be, even with the little to no help or direction from the national executive government, by doing the right things and sticking to it, there could be relief from this pandemic.

Trump had so many chances to reverse his dumbass policies and the Governors would have followed right along. And we'd all be better off for it.