Well Into A Third Month, America Still Under The Lockdown Gun And The Efforts To Empty Our Jails Go On

Starting month three, we are learning that the experts were guessing. Some things they got right, some wrong. The radical left however, remains relentless in pursuing their pre-Covid 19 agenda, beat Trump by killing the economy and empty the jails and prisons.

The story they told us was we were risking a catastrophe in our jails with thousands of deaths. So what has happened? In Harris County, 7,000 in jail, no deaths as of May 7, 2020. They thought they had one, but he died of a heart attack and just happened to be positive for coronavirus without any symptoms.

Recent data from mass testing of prisoners in Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia shows 3,300 prisoners tested positive for coronavirus and 96% of those positives had no symptoms. These numbers translate into a death rate from coronavirus of .15 to .2 percent. Maybe that's why the mainstream media and its leftist allies only tell us about positive tests, not who actually gets sick with the coronavirus.

Yet, the lawsuit in Harris County, Texas Federal Court, Russell vs. Harris County, is still pending and the radical advocates continue to push to empty the jails they say because of coronavirus, but the real reason is the agenda to decriminalize crime and drastically reduce those in jail regardless of crimes, an agenda being pursued by the left for years.

By the way, this effort is being repeated around the country. The traditional way to evaluate bond risk is irrelevant to those pushing mass jail release. We also notice a crime increase in the areas where mass release takes place. In Houston for example, we are on our way to a record murder year.

In Harris County, the culprits behind this mass jail release attempt are County Judge Lina Hidalgo, Commissioner Rodney Ellis, the Houston Chronicle and their radical allies.