On member call with Govenor:

Abbott said contact tracing and public face cover essential to re-opening (experts strongly agree)...

Then spends the next 15 mins answering member questions about people wanting to refuse to cooperate with contact tracing.

#WereDoomed
1- this is how effective the Russian disinformation campaign is at altering America society.

2- this is how easy it is to manipulate our population (esp on the Right)

3- this is how easy our political leaders are swayed from doing what they know is right
We've been doing contact tracing for all diseases, long before #Covid19.

But somehow this suddenly became a "freedom" issue for the Right in the past few weeks.
Think about how insane this is... We have a substantial population now violently rejecting something that keeps us safe.

If we can find out who you may have infected, you could help protect their loved ones and work place before it becomes a problem. It's the right thing to do!
As someone who is paid money to be paranoid (attorney), let me just say: those questions were super paranoid.

Like, you may need medication type of paranoid.
For the record, Abbott pushed back on the questions.

His responses were medically and legally correct.

It's just depressing that we had to devote that much time to them.
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