Rep Crenshaw: ‘It’s Not a Binary Choice’, It’s Not a Choice Between Saving Lives OR Saving the Economy – By Elizabeth Vaughn (Red State) / April 12 2020
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) joined Fox News‘ Judge Jeanine on Saturday night to discuss opening up the economy.
We’ve got to balance fighting the pandemic alongside of fighting our economic downturn and it’s going to be hard, but I’ll tell you what. Houston has been through very hard times. Let’s not forget Hurricane Harvey with our entire city flooded and you know our hospitals are uniquely suited to disasters. Our hospitals are doing well. They’re not even close to being overwhelmed at all.
Our case rates are not growing exponentially. They are growing, of course, but we aren’t like New York…
And then we’ve got to be looking ahead…at how we open up the economy and take a more targeted approach to fighting the pandemic. I think too many people talk about a binary choice between letting the disease run free and closing down society for – for indefinitely. But it’s not a binary choice. We can do both and we have to think very carefully about how to do that.
Judge Jeanine said it’s a very difficult call and compared it to putting a thread through a needle. New York has been hit so hard and other areas have barely been impacted by the coronavirus. She asked Crenshaw how that should factor in to reopening the country and what happens if there’s disagreement between the President and a governor or even between, say, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC’s Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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