'You have to be very careful if you open up too soon, you'll undo all the sacrifices that people made,' Mayor Sylvester Turner said.
Patrick drew controversy back in March after he first suggested that elderly people in the U.S. were willing to risk dying to keep the economy open.
"I just think there are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me—I have six grandchildren—that what we all care about and what we love more than anything are those children, and I want to live smart and see through this, but I don't want the whole country to be sacrificed. And that's what I see," he said at the time, in an interview with Carlson on Fox News.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks onstage ahead of the third Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas on September 12Despite the sentiments expressed by Patrick and many demonstrators, polling has consistently shown that the majority of Americans prefer the government to focus on addressing the coronavirus pandemic over the economy.
Polling data from Morning Consult published last week showed that majorities of Republicans, independents and Democrats believed it was more important for the government to focus on dealing with the coronavirus than the economy. Overall, 75 percent of voters said they prefer the government focus first on the public health crisis. That sentiment was shared by 88 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of independents and 65 percent of Republicans.
A survey by Pew Research Center, which was conducted from April 7 to 12, also showed that 66 percent of respondents said they were concerned that their state government would move too quickly to reopen businesses. Only 32 percent said they were concerned this would happen too slowly.
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