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Last week, El Paso, Texas, county officials sent out a plea asking for additional morgue workers to deal with surging COVID-19 fatalities, which prompted the Texas National Guard to step up and help cope with the harsh reality of a “fatality management plan”:
Meanwhile, Sen. Ted Cruz seemed to be more worried about someone wrestling away his turkey leg:
The Texas senator was called out for his “come and take it” message, which was widely viewed as a tone-deaf salvo in the culture war dividing both sides of the political spectrum:
Cruz’s message also seemed to fly in the face of the CDC warning against traveling for Thanksgiving gatherings as coronavirus cases continue to spike.
His peers on the left side of the aisle were quick to chime in:
This “bad COVID-19 take” also made the Twitter TWTR, +2.43% rounds:
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