Where are YOUR stats? A vast majority of the new cases are among the unvaccinated or the partially vaccinated. Abbott didn't mask up, and he spread vaccine disinformation - that more than anything is the focus here.
You see, the vaccine isn't to IMMUNIZE against COVID - it's always been to MITIGATE RISK and minimize any potential infection. The vaccinated are far less likely than the unvaccinated to wind up infected. Those who voluntarily wear masks likewise minimise the risk of transmitting or having the Covid virus transmitted to them.
Thanks to the wilfully ignorant fools and politicized vaccine debates, the United States leads the developed world in new infections, and deaths. That's about the only leadership Trump is responsible for.
By looking for excuses to minimize guidelines that even Tucker Carlson's personal hero Erdogan has implemented in the Fascist Republic of Turkey, all you and your ilk are doing is prolonging the crisis, and demonstrating how short-sighted and selfish you are, individually and collectively.
Stop pooh-poohing peer-reviewed, internationally approved and wholly understood science.
The life you save might be your own.