No, I am not looking at it from the perspective of the unemployed or the economy. I am looking at it from the standpoint of facilitating more deaths verses saving lives.

First, note that the number of new cases in Texas is still increasing. Texas has yet to define any plan for reopening other than open as much as possible as soon as possible, per the Governor, beginning May 1 or sooner. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says "there are worse things than dying". The governor says he will do it safely but has not stated any conditions for reopening just that it is time.

How and when states or cities reopen is not about any one person. It is about all of us as one. The humane and responsible course of action is a reopening with an in depth plan of sufficient testing each and every day. It is a plan to measure, by adequate testing, the number of new cases and a sufficient number of personnel to trace back the persons the new case has exposed. Texas does not have the testing capability as yet nor the personnel to do the tracing. There may be job opening for that though I don't expect Texas will give either necessity consideration.

There is no verification for any percent of increase of deaths based on one percent increase of unemployment. The 40,000 deaths per increase of one per of unemployment originated from the movie 'The Big Short'.

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