Texas Lt. Gov. says coronavirus restrictions are worse than dying and America needs to 'get back to living,' despite what public health officials have said

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• Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick warned of an "economic collapse" and urged President Donald Trump to ease the travel and business restrictions for Americans across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.
• Patrick, who will turn 70 years old next week and is in the higher-risk category for contracting the coronavirus, said the lockdowns and shelter-in-place directives were a frightful undertaking — more so than the coronavirus itself.
• Patrick claimed that the restrictions were worse than dying, and said "those of us who are 70 plus" would "take care of ourselves."
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick warned of an "economic collapse" and urged President Donald Trump to ease the travel and business restrictions for Americans across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, despite the advice from public health officials that measures like this were needed to slow the disease.

Patrick, who will turn 70 years old next week and is in the higher-risk category for contracting the coronavirus, said the lockdowns and shelter-in-place directives were a frightful undertaking — more than the coronavirus itself.

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