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  • 2020-04-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Texas' Lt. Gov. Say 'There Are More Important Things Than Living'? (en)
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  • Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick raised some eyebrows in March 2020 when he seemingly suggested during an appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight that exposing vulnerable, older members of the U.S. population to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic was a reasonable trade-off for getting the U.S. back to work and back to living: Patrick raised even more eyebrows the following month when, according to social media postings, he declared (in reference to the lockdowns prompted by the COVID-19 outbreak) that there are more important things than living: Indeed, on April 20, 2020, Patrick again appeared as a guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight and echoed his earlier remarks on that program in questioning whether the threat posed by the coronavirus disease was exaggerated and worth the trade-off of shutting down businesses for a prolonged period of time: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-texas-dan-patrick-fox-news-republican-lieutenant-governor-a9478181.html As NBC News reported of Patrick's controversial remarks, he is not alone in expressing the viewpoint that the importance of maintaining a functioning economy outweighed the dangers posed by the COVID-19 pandemic: Critics of that viewpoint maintained that the COVID-19 mortality figures had been relatively low precisely because of the social-distancing and lockdown measures put into effect, and that loosening those restrictions to allow closed-down businesses to start operating again would risk producing a significant increase in the number of coronavirus deaths. (en)
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