Opinion

Nurses are often the first people patients see when visiting hospitals. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources Services Administration, there were 2.8 million registered nurses, including advanced practice RNs, and 690,000 licensed practical nurses, or LPNs, in the United States between the years of 2008 and 2010.

A pandemic policy that has swung between public health and the economy has a third leg now, with complainers inside and outside of public office arguing that government shutdown orders designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus violate civil liberties and might even be unconstitutional.

Editor's note: This column is in response to an opinion piece featured in the Daily Record on March 11: "Texans need the Grand Old Pipeline"

Editor,

While the rest of us are fretting about the pandemic, a couple of state agencies are busy with big, unrelated stuff. Government never stops.

“Look around me/ I can see my life before me/ Running rings around the way / It used to be…” – Crosby, Stills & Nash

Would you like a guardian angel for your health during the pandemic?