Texas has 250 counties.
Starr County is next door to hard-hit Hidalgo County.
For "daily new cases" in the 7-day, 14-day, 30-day, 90-day and since the beginning of the pandemic, Hidalgo ranks 4th, 5th, 5th, 6th and 6th.
For "daily new deaths" Hidalgo ranks 1st, 1st, 1st, 3rd and 3rd.
Starr County?
Daily new cases: 29th, 34th, 31st, 34th and 34th.
Daily new deaths: 16th, 19th, 27th, 33rd and 36th.
Hidalgo's had 14,529 cases to date, and 433 deaths.
Starr County? 1,519 cases to date, and . . . 20 deaths.
Twenty! Since the beginning!
Yet here's the headline from the geniuses at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
BY CHACOUR KOOP
I don't know what's worse, that the newspaper actually published this drivel, the money line of which is that "On Sunday, Gov.Abbott announced U.S. Navy teams will go to South Texas to provide medical assistance, including the hospital in Starr County", or that Drudge put this fourth in his lineup this morning.
The hysteria mongers never stop.
