Texas Governor Greg Abbott Ends Statewide Mask Mandate, Opens State 100%

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    Herd immunity developed months ago.
     
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    Did it? How many people in the States have had Covid?
    Has everyone you know had it? Have you had it?
     
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    Birx shares her chilling conclusion as America arrives at a moment of introspection on the coronavirus

    (CNN)The US may finally be getting a handle on the coronavirus pandemic, but for so many Americans, it's too late, and that disconnect is raising fresh questions about why the US couldn't have done more earlier.

    Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House coronavirus response coordinator under the Trump administration, reveals her chilling conclusion in a new CNN documentary that the number of coronavirus deaths could have been "decreased substantially" if cities and states across the country had aggressively applied the lessons of the first surge toward mitigation last spring, potentially preventing the surges that followed.

    It is a bracing retrospective from one of the top doctors who was tasked with halting the pandemic, and it comes at a time when many grieving families are still trying to understand how one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations in the world was unable to prevent the loss of nearly 550,000 lives.

    ... https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/27/politics/covid-war-deaths-preventable/index.html

    The buck stops where?
     
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    There can be little doubt that Trumps attitude towards Covid had a definitive effect on the results you see in America. Will ever accept responsibility for his actions or be bought to book for them. NO definitely not.
     
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    I've lost track of the number of people I know who've had it. It's well over 100, and I still don't know anybody who has died from it. I don't know anybody who has been hospitalized for it, but I understand and accept that some have died from it and others have been hospitalized. A Covid diagnosis on a patient is worth $13000 to the hospital, $39000 if one is placed on a vent.

    No, I seem to have escaped it, even though I don't wear a mask and I have been exposed. Good nutrition keeps the immune system in good shape.
     
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    Can we all finally agree that we should kill the stupid mask mandate?
     
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    Only reasonable and unfrightened people can agree to that.
     
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    WTH?
     
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    Can you think of a reason?
     
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    Plenty of people still are getting sick and some are dying, and COVID continues to try new variations to find new options for for expansion.

    Remember when people in the USA were criticizing China for not completely preventing COVID to grow BEFORE it spread everywhere?

    Well, that is how we are right now. COVID is NOT active, but everywhere is being unleashed again and the new variants are busily brewing variants that may reduce or defeat the current vaccines.

    In even just a few more months of caution, further reducing the COVID and perhaps preventing more variants to be growing.

    Sadly, we even still have plenty of locations where the COVID is expanding. That may may a tragic impatience. Its just like stopping a course of antibiotics early before there is a complete removal of the disease, which allows remnants of virus and bacteria to develop immune variants.
     
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    Well that prediction didn't age well.

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    Beto the Clown​
    It has been 66 days since Beto tweeted that Gov. Abbot is killing Texans and the state reported zero deaths from covid-19 yesterday.
     
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    Has anyone posted this ?

    There were liberal city, county, school district hold outs who were still mandating masks... so today Gov Abbot issued an executive order to forbid them from mandating masks. School districts have until June 4 to comply.

    Texas Gov. Abbott bans mask mandates from public schools, local governments
    Abbott's order makes it illegal for schools, governments to require Texans to wear a mask


    The new order was announced in a press release on Tuesday and prevents school districts as well as local and county governments, public officials and public health authorities from requiring or mandating Texas citizens to wear a face mask...

    ... Additionally, starting May 21, any local governments or officials that try to impose a mask mandate or "a limitation inconsistent or conflicting" with Abbott’s new executive order will face a $1,000 fine.


    more at link

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-greg-abbott-mask-mandate-banned-public-schools


    Gov. Abbott bans mask mandates in Texas public schools, cities and school districts, public health authorities and other government officials from requiring people to wear masks

    more at link

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/po...s-masks-mandates-in-Texas-public-16185845.php


    Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Tuesday prohibiting state governmental entities such as counties, public school districts, public health authorities and government officials from requiring mask wearing.

    more at link

    https://www.fox10tv.com/news/us_wor...cle_d646df0e-271e-5a83-96d4-2f3b702f6099.html

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    ABSOLUTELY NOT. My mask is my symbol of moral superiority and Democrat voting. I like to wear it while riding my bicycle and motorcycle, while out in the Gulf of Mexico on my boat and even when alone in my car.
     
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    Retaliation.
     
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    Spent a week in Dallas this month, everyone everywhere was wearing a mask.
     
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    Dallas has become a Democrat voter location.
     
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    Certainly not by Abbot's office. On the other hand.....

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    "Texas Governor Greg Abbott Ends Statewide Mask Mandate, Opens State 100%"


    why did Texas have a Statewide mask Mandate? Thought republicans did not do this?
     
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    Masks are beautiful.

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    Because of Texas Democrats’ whining.
     
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    Texas did not do a mask mandate cause Democrats asked him too, lol
     

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