This week on Polilogue, we examine the questions and conversations about the crisis in Texas. Millions of people were without electricity or water for days during a winter storm. In less than a week, dozens of lives were lost, people suffered and went hungry, and billions of dollars in property and infrastructure were damaged. How did an energy-rich state like Texas drop the ball the minute the temperatures dropped?

We also continue to look at the language and recommendations by public health officials to Americans regarding COVID mitigations.

Chapters

• Introduction

• Questionable: Fauci on Safe Behaviors

• Questionable: Too Much Trump

• Quality: Fauci on the 1-Dose Vaccination

• Quality: The Direct Teacher COVID Question

• Journalism: FTN’s COVID Exit Interview

• Journalism: Tough Biden Admin Questions

• Politics: The Case for and Against Relief

• Politics: A Failure on Texas

• Show Ratings

• Dialogue Challenge

Shows discussed 

• State of the Union on CNN

• Fox News Sunday on FOX

• This Week on ABC

• Meet the Press on NBC

• Face the Nation on CBS

Resources

• How Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster (NYT)

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