Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo is sticking with her COVID threat level "red" despite plunging numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths since the vaccine rollout began.
Now some of her colleagues on commissioners court are questioning her metrics.
“I would rather follow the advice of these folks that keep looking at it, that are not political at all,” Hidalgo said Tuesday. “I really hope I'm wrong. I really do. It's the kind of thing you can't win.”
Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle argues Harris County residents have become deaf to Judge Hidalgo's constant doom and gloom outlook on COVID, while Fort Bend County and others have lowered their threat levels to reflect a change in local COVID numbers.
“With so many folks now resuming normal life and we're still at red, how do we let them know if there's a change?” Cagle asked an epidemiologist. “The answer was 'that's a good question.' So even the experts are saying there's a problem when you're always at top level and you never turn the sirens off.”
That leads us to our poll question.