(CNN) Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is at it again!

Here the Republican is explaining his logic on why the country need to reopen even amid warnings of a second coronavirus infection bump in an interview Monday night with Fox News' Tucker Carlso n (bolding is mine):

"When you start shutting down the economy, and people start losing their paychecks, and businesses can't open, and governments aren't getting revenues, and go on and on and on. I'm sorry to say I was right on this. And I'm thankful that we are now, Tucker, finally beginning to open up Texas and other states. Because it's been long overdue. You know they told us, Tucker, to follow the science. Well, what science?

"I mean, at the end of January, Dr. Fauci, who I have great respect for, said this wasn't a big issue. Three weeks later, we were going to lose 2 million people. Another few weeks later, it was 1 to 200,000. Now it's under 60,000. And we've had the wrong numbers. The wrong science. And I don't blame them. But let's face reality of where we are. In Texas, we have 29 million people. We've lost 195. And every life is valuable. But 500 people out of 29 million. And we're locked down. And we're crushing the average worker. We're crushing small business. We're crushing the markets. We're crushing this country.

"And what I said when I was with you that night, there are more important things than living. And that's saving this country for my children and my grandchildren. And saving this country for all of us. And I don't want to die. Nobody wants to die. But man, we've got to take some risks. And get back in the game. And get this country back up and running."

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