As a Texan, if you depend on our elected people to keep you informed about anything important you're probably backing the wrong horse. Unelected people like pu

As a Texan, if you depend on our elected people to keep you informed about anything important you're probably backing the wrong horse. Unelected people like public health experts should always be important parts of any discussions about issues that affect the health and safety of all members of a community. They can work with elected representatives to help define policy and guidelines that protect our property and keep us all employed and healthy. Ignoring the input of unelected experts is dangerous to society and leads to exactly the conditions we have now where people chose sides based on partisan identity politics instead of solid pandemic management principles. We can't elect everyone who should have a voice in defining policy but we can consult them and take advantage of their expertise and skills when bad things happen. You don't gripe when other disasters like prairie fires require evacuation notices do you? Those people are also unelected. They are also recognized experts at their trades who spend their careers trying to keep us all safe.