Welp. Texas is about to be off the chain!
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He's telling a whole state fresh off of a catastrophic week where the supply chain is broken, only 5% of the population is vaccinated, in a state with the 3rd most covid deaths that everything should be up and running in a week. Businesses were just at 50% capacity. a lot of people don't have running water. People on unemployment will be screwed just to take the heat off himself?
this crippled muthafucka is about to kill a bunch of people.
he would pull this shit with spring break right around the corner.
Cacs bout to be in walmart in mass without a mask doin all that screamin and shit.
gotta make sure that when i go to the store, its around 5am when noone is in there.
he would pull this shit with spring break right around the corner.
Cacs bout to be in walmart in mass without a mask doin all that screamin and shit.
gotta make sure that when i go to the store, its around 5am when noone is in there.
He didn't even give guidance to businesses who would like to keep the mask policy the choice to keep it a requirement. The cops are going to be busy march madness weekend. BTW the AAC Basketball Tournament and the PV Grambling game will be on the 13th
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this! he's just throwing shit at the wall to also move the convo away from the power grid disaster
I'm about to go listen to Van halen cuz it's a damn lot of dreams you're selling
These people have ceased to surprise me but they never fail to disgust me. They hate so bad they would imperil their lives and the lives of their circle to...what, exactly?
We already know Noem and Desantis are smoking meth. I guess they got Abbott chasing that dragon.
We already know Noem and Desantis are smoking meth. I guess they got Abbott chasing that dragon.
tell the fam in texas to hunker down as these cacs get wiped out
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A stupid ass cripple .....
He's Pissed Off Alot of Hwhite People in the State Many of Whom Have Walked From GOP After the Treason Attack on the Capitol....GOP Turnout is Gonna be Low These Next Elections Especially If GOP Is Not Held Accountable For That Fuckery...But Hey....What Do I Know....See You At the Revolution
seems most texans actually prefer it that way IMO. If you've ever lived here or spent time here their commercials are filled with Tough texans this, hardworking texans that..they have texas edition ford trucks, pagers, beer, etc. They lave law firms known as the Texas Law guns & the Texas law tigers (commercials). they even have the outline of the state of tx as it appears on the map, carved into their overpasses. shit is both corny and nauseating.
Honestly I'm surprised Georgia hasn't done this.
We've been open since June/July.
We've been open since June/July.
Texas always wanting to succeed anyway. Phuckem.
secede lol
I bet by the end of this week, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and Alabama will be next inline to drop restrictions. Every red voting state will do this. Spring Break is only days away from popping off, this is a horrible idea.
Preciate it!!!
Yeah...Ohio has been wide open for months too. We still have the facemask mandate......for now.
they aint alone cuz!
Texas isn't alone. These 15 states also do not currently have a statewide mask mandate.
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Texas will become one of 16 states across the country without a statewide order mandating masks in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus, under a new executive order from Gov. Greg Abbott.
The order will rescind previous safety measures implemented by Abbott that were intended to protect people amid a global pandemic that has resulted in more than 515,000 deaths across the United States, including more than 43,000 fatalities in Texas.
More:Can cities still issue local mask orders? What you need to know about Texas' new executive order
Abbott said on Tuesday that it is time for the state to completely reopen, as hospitalizations related to COVID-19 are declining across the state and more people are being vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Texas is not the first state to end a statewide requirement for people to wear masks in public. Fifteen other states either lifted their mask mandate or never adopted one in the first place, according to the AARP:
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Iowa
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
Texas becomes biggest US state to lift COVID-19 mask mandate
Texas is lifting a COVID-19 mask mandate that was imposed last summer but has only been lightly enforced
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press
March 2, 2021, 6:02 PM
• 6 min read
CDC director warns of possible 4th COVID-19 wave
As more people become vaccinated, Rochelle Walensky is pleading with Americans to keep their...Read More
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas is lifting its mask mandate, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday, making it the largest state to no longer require one of the most effective ways to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The announcement in Texas, where the virus has killed more than 42,000 people, rattled doctors and big city leaders who said they are now bracing for another deadly resurgence. One hospital executive in Houston said he told his staff they would need more personnel and ventilators.
Federal health officials this week urgently warned states to not let their guard down, warning that the pandemic is far from over.
Abbott, a Republican, has faced sustained criticism from his party in America's biggest red state over the statewide mask mandate — which was imposed eight months ago — as well as business occupancy limits that Texas will also scuttle next week. The mask order was only ever lightly enforced, even during the worst outbreaks of the pandemic.
“Removing statewide mandates does not end personal responsibility,” said Abbott, speaking from the crowded dining room of a restaurant in Lubbock, surrounded by several people not wearing masks.
“It’s just that now state mandates are no longer needed,” he said.
The repeals will take effect March 10.
The full impact of Texas' reversal was still coming into focus. Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, said he had no immediate plans to change the limits on fans at home games. Their biggest crowd so far this season was about 3,000 spectators.
Restaurant owners began confronting whether they, too, would relax COVID-19 safeguards in their dining rooms. And school administrators scrambled to figure out how the end of the mask mandate would impact the state's 5 million public school students.
“While we’ve made significant progress, I’d hate to have that go away,” said Tinku Saini, the CEO of Tarka Indian Kitchen, which has locations across Texas. He said Abbott's announcement left him with mixed feelings, and that he would now allow customers to go maskless but still require face coverings for staff and keep tables spread apart.
Abbott joins a growing number of governors across the U.S. who are easing coronavirus restrictions. Like the rest of the country, Texas has seen the number of cases and deaths plunge. Hospitalizations are at the lowest levels since October, and the seven-day rolling average of positive tests has dropped to about 7,600 cases, down from more than 10,000 in mid-February.
Only California and New York have reported more COVID-19 deaths than Texas.
“Absolutely reckless,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, tweeted in response to Abbott’s announcement.
Texas is doing away with the restrictions just ahead of the spring break holiday, which health experts worry could lead to more spread as people travel.
“The fact that things are headed in the right direction doesn't mean we have succeeded in eradicating the risk," said Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers, a professor of integrative biology and director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
She said the recent deadly winter freeze in Texas that left millions of people without power — forcing families to shelter closely with others who still had heat — could amplify transmission of the virus in the weeks ahead, although it remains too early to tell. Masks, she said, are one of the most effective strategies to curb the spread.
The top county leader in Houston, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, called the announcement “wishful thinking" and said spikes in hospitalizations have followed past rollbacks of COVID-19 rules.
“At worst, it is a cynical attempt to distract Texans from the failures of state oversight of our power grid," said Hidalgo, a Democrat.
Dr. Joseph Varon, chief medical officer at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, said he called the hospital’s top leaders immediately after Abbott’s announcement and said they will need more staff and ventilators.
“I am just concerned that I am going to have a tsunami of new cases,” Varon said. “I truly hope I am wrong. But unfortunately history seems to repeat itself.”
Early in the pandemic, Abbott stripped local officials of their power to implement tougher COVID-19 restrictions, but now says counties can impose “mitigation strategies" if virus hospitalizations exceed 15% of all hospital capacity in their region. However, Abbott forbade local officials from imposing penalties for not wearing a face covering.
Retailers and other businesses will also still be allowed to impose capacity limits and other restrictions on their own.
Abbott imposed the statewide mask mandate in July during a deadly summer surge. But enforcement was spotty at best, and some sheriffs refused to police the restrictions at all. And as the pandemic dragged on, Abbott ruled out a return to tough COVID-19 rules, arguing that lockdowns do not work.
Politically, the restrictions elevated tensions between Abbott and his own party, with the head of the Texas GOP at one point leading a protest outside the governor's mansion. Meanwhile, mayors in Texas' biggest cities argued that Abbott wasn't doing enough.
Most of the country has lived under mask mandates during the pandemic, with at least 37 states requiring face coverings to some degree. But those orders are increasingly falling by the wayside: North Dakota, Montana and Iowa have also lifted mask orders in recent weeks.
In Texas, it was only last week that emergency restrictions on restaurants and businesses were relaxed in the Rio Grande Valley, which has been walloped by the virus like few other places in America.
“I appreciate Governor Abbott's desire to return to normalcy, but I remained concerned that, at least in Hidalgo County, we may be moving too quickly," Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez said.
Texas is lifting a COVID-19 mask mandate that was imposed last summer but has only been lightly enforced
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press
March 2, 2021, 6:02 PM
• 6 min read
CDC director warns of possible 4th COVID-19 wave
As more people become vaccinated, Rochelle Walensky is pleading with Americans to keep their...Read More
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas is lifting its mask mandate, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday, making it the largest state to no longer require one of the most effective ways to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The announcement in Texas, where the virus has killed more than 42,000 people, rattled doctors and big city leaders who said they are now bracing for another deadly resurgence. One hospital executive in Houston said he told his staff they would need more personnel and ventilators.
Federal health officials this week urgently warned states to not let their guard down, warning that the pandemic is far from over.
Abbott, a Republican, has faced sustained criticism from his party in America's biggest red state over the statewide mask mandate — which was imposed eight months ago — as well as business occupancy limits that Texas will also scuttle next week. The mask order was only ever lightly enforced, even during the worst outbreaks of the pandemic.
“Removing statewide mandates does not end personal responsibility,” said Abbott, speaking from the crowded dining room of a restaurant in Lubbock, surrounded by several people not wearing masks.
“It’s just that now state mandates are no longer needed,” he said.
The repeals will take effect March 10.
The full impact of Texas' reversal was still coming into focus. Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, said he had no immediate plans to change the limits on fans at home games. Their biggest crowd so far this season was about 3,000 spectators.
Restaurant owners began confronting whether they, too, would relax COVID-19 safeguards in their dining rooms. And school administrators scrambled to figure out how the end of the mask mandate would impact the state's 5 million public school students.
“While we’ve made significant progress, I’d hate to have that go away,” said Tinku Saini, the CEO of Tarka Indian Kitchen, which has locations across Texas. He said Abbott's announcement left him with mixed feelings, and that he would now allow customers to go maskless but still require face coverings for staff and keep tables spread apart.
Abbott joins a growing number of governors across the U.S. who are easing coronavirus restrictions. Like the rest of the country, Texas has seen the number of cases and deaths plunge. Hospitalizations are at the lowest levels since October, and the seven-day rolling average of positive tests has dropped to about 7,600 cases, down from more than 10,000 in mid-February.
Only California and New York have reported more COVID-19 deaths than Texas.
“Absolutely reckless,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, tweeted in response to Abbott’s announcement.
Texas is doing away with the restrictions just ahead of the spring break holiday, which health experts worry could lead to more spread as people travel.
“The fact that things are headed in the right direction doesn't mean we have succeeded in eradicating the risk," said Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers, a professor of integrative biology and director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
She said the recent deadly winter freeze in Texas that left millions of people without power — forcing families to shelter closely with others who still had heat — could amplify transmission of the virus in the weeks ahead, although it remains too early to tell. Masks, she said, are one of the most effective strategies to curb the spread.
The top county leader in Houston, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, called the announcement “wishful thinking" and said spikes in hospitalizations have followed past rollbacks of COVID-19 rules.
“At worst, it is a cynical attempt to distract Texans from the failures of state oversight of our power grid," said Hidalgo, a Democrat.
Dr. Joseph Varon, chief medical officer at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, said he called the hospital’s top leaders immediately after Abbott’s announcement and said they will need more staff and ventilators.
“I am just concerned that I am going to have a tsunami of new cases,” Varon said. “I truly hope I am wrong. But unfortunately history seems to repeat itself.”
Early in the pandemic, Abbott stripped local officials of their power to implement tougher COVID-19 restrictions, but now says counties can impose “mitigation strategies" if virus hospitalizations exceed 15% of all hospital capacity in their region. However, Abbott forbade local officials from imposing penalties for not wearing a face covering.
Retailers and other businesses will also still be allowed to impose capacity limits and other restrictions on their own.
Abbott imposed the statewide mask mandate in July during a deadly summer surge. But enforcement was spotty at best, and some sheriffs refused to police the restrictions at all. And as the pandemic dragged on, Abbott ruled out a return to tough COVID-19 rules, arguing that lockdowns do not work.
Politically, the restrictions elevated tensions between Abbott and his own party, with the head of the Texas GOP at one point leading a protest outside the governor's mansion. Meanwhile, mayors in Texas' biggest cities argued that Abbott wasn't doing enough.
Most of the country has lived under mask mandates during the pandemic, with at least 37 states requiring face coverings to some degree. But those orders are increasingly falling by the wayside: North Dakota, Montana and Iowa have also lifted mask orders in recent weeks.
In Texas, it was only last week that emergency restrictions on restaurants and businesses were relaxed in the Rio Grande Valley, which has been walloped by the virus like few other places in America.
“I appreciate Governor Abbott's desire to return to normalcy, but I remained concerned that, at least in Hidalgo County, we may be moving too quickly," Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez said.
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'Opening Texas 100%': Gov. Abbott rescinds statewide face mask order, business restrictions
Gov. Greg Abbott made the announcement from Lubbock, saying effective Wednesday, March 10, most statewide restrictions would be lifted.
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'Opening Texas 100%': Gov. Abbott rescinds statewide face mask order, business restrictions
Gov. Greg Abbott made the announcement from Lubbock, saying effective Wednesday, March 10, most statewide restrictions would be lifted.
Gov. Abbott ends statewide mask mandate, opens businesses to 100% capacity
Author: Eline de Bruijn, Jennifer Prohov (WFAA)
Published: 12:01 PM CST March 2, 2021
Updated: 3:36 PM CST March 2, 2021
LUBBOCK, Texas — Updated at 3:34 p.m. to include reaction from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
Gov. Greg Abbott is rescinding statewide face mask orders and reopening all businesses starting next Wednesday.
Abbott made the announcement Tuesday afternoon, saying that any type of business is allowed to reopen 100%. Businesses are still allowed to implement capacity limits or safety protocols.
"Businesses don't need the state to tell them how to operate," Abbott said.
If COVID-19 hospitalizations stay above 15% for seven straight days, a county judge may use mitigation strategies in their county, such as face masks. Judges may not enforce penalties for countywide face mask restrictions, Abbott said.
"Make no mistake, COVID-19 has not disappeared, but it is clear from the recoveries, vaccinations, reduced hospitalizations, and safe practices that Texans are using that state mandates are no longer needed," Abbott said.
Now is the right time for Texas to be fully reopened, Abbott said, because Texas has the ability to administer over 100,000 COVID-19 tests per day and there are antibody treatments. He said as of Tuesday, the state has under a 9% positivity rate.
More vaccines are coming to the state, including the newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine. By next Wednesday, there will have been 7 million shots administered to Texans, the governor said.
"By the end of this month, every senior who wants a vaccine shot will be able to get a vaccine shot," Abbott said.
He also said that within a few months, every Texan who wants a vaccine shot will be able to get a vaccine shot.
Health experts, including a member of the statewide task force, a UNT epidemiologist and the past president of the Dallas County Medical Society, told WFAA last week now is not the time to relax restrictions.
Stephen Love, the president/CEO of the DFW Hospital Council, said that removing the mask mandate "is very unfortunate."
"The COVID-19 virus with variants is still here and we have not achieved herd immunity," Love said. "This decision will cause the community spread to increase, forcing our exhausted healthcare heroes to diagnose, treat and save the lives of newly infected patients."
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Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins also called the decision "unfortunate."
"It's unfortunate that on a day we record 25 deaths, which takes us above 3,000 [COVID-19] deaths for Dallas County since COVID began nearly a year ago, the governor has removed all of the state orders that he designed to protect you and the people that you care about from contracting COVID," the judge said. "But for us here in North Texas, and for all Texans, we need to focus not on what the governor tells you the law allows, but on what doctors and the facts and the science that we all know well at this point tell us is necessary to keep us safe and give us our best chance of reaching herd immunity as quickly as possible."
The most recent report from UT Southwestern says that mask usage in North Texas remains very high.
While COVID-19 case and hospitalization numbers have been ticking down recently, declines are starting to plateau, according to federal officials and UT Southwestern models.
Cases and hospitalizations still remain very high, close to the high levels reached in the summer months last year.
RELATED: Health experts, county officials weigh in on possible end to Texas COVID-19 restrictions
Abbott said earlier Tuesday that the state had reported a new daily record number of people receiving vaccines: more than 216,000 Texans a day, with 1 million vaccines going out each week.
But there is some important context to that. While Texas’ 7-day average of vaccinations is the highest it’s been, the state ranks last in the country in doses administered per person, according to the CDC.
RELATED: Texas officials expected to release details on 1C vaccine group in March
State officials had previously said they would announce at some point in March what groups of Texans would be included under Phase 1C of vaccine distribution.
More than 3.5 million Texans have so far received at least one shot of the vaccine, with 1.8 million fully vaccinated. But the state estimates there are still around 13 million people who are currently eligible to get the shot.
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UT Southwestern says the increased compliance with social distancing, face mask wearing, hand hygiene and restricting crowds is necessary to ensure there is still enough capacity in healthcare systems, especially as the more contagious variant which was first identified in the United Kingdom is confirmed to be circulating in Texas, including Dallas.
“If any of the more highly transmissible variants become entrenched in North Texas, they could substantially change the long-term trends in our region,” the report says. “Maintaining our current levels of compliance with prevention measures will help us continue the downward trajectory of cases in North Texas.”
Texas timeline: COVID-19 and reopening
March 9, 2020: First case of COVID-19 in North Texas was detected in a Frisco father in his 30s. He traveled to California for a business trip at the end of February where he came in contact with someone who had contracted the novel coronavirus.
March 12, 2020: Dallas County officials banned gatherings of more than 500 people starting March 13. At the time, 13 people were infected in North Texas.
March 19, 2020: Texans are asked to avoid social gatherings and groups of more than 10 people after Gov. Greg. Abbott issued an executive order.
The order also closed all schools, bars, dine-in restaurants, and gyms. He also said staffing at workplaces should be limited and encouraged working remotely.
March 24, 2020: Variations of “stay at home” orders are issued in Collin, Denton, Dallas and Tarrant counties.
March 31, 2020: Gov. Abbott issues an executive order that only allows Texans to leave their homes for essential activities. The order lasted through April 30.
April 3, 2020: President Donald Trump announces new federal guidelines recommending that Americans wear face coverings when in public. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued similar guidance.
April 17, 2020: In his reopening guidelines, Gov. Greg Abbott announced retail businesses could sell items to-go, via a drive-thru set up or delivery, starting Friday, April 24, Abbott said.
April 27, 2020: Gov. Greg Abbott says retail stores, restaurants, theaters, and malls can reopen May 1 with 25% occupancy.
May 5, 2020: Hair salons, barbershops, tanning salons, and nail salons could reopen on May 8.
June 3, 2020: Capacity is expanded to 50% for most Texas businesses. Bars, gyms and indoor wedding venues are limited to 25%.
June 12, 2020: Restaurants can expand to 75%.
June 26, 2020: Abbott scaled back reopening plans after cases and hospitalizations rise. He closed bars and reduced capacity at restaurants.
July 2, 2020: Abbott issued a statewide order to require all Texans to wear face masks if they lived in counties that had more than 20 cases.
Sept. 17, 2020: Hospitals in 19 regions can return to performing elective procedures.
Sept. 24, 2020: Eligible nursing homes, assisted living facilities and long-term care facilities will be able to designate up to two essential family caregivers for visitation.
Oct. 14, 2020: County judges can opt-in to allow bars to reopen for the first time since June, Abbott says.
Dec. 2, 2020: Restaurant capacity in North Texas to be reduced from 75% to 50% due to an executive order. The region reported its seventh straight day with COVID-19 patients making up at least 15% of the hospitals' total capacity.
Non-essential businesses like gyms and retail stores in the area also had to abide by this order.
Dec. 14, 2020: An environment services worker who cleans the emergency room at Methodist Dallas Medical Center was the first person in Texas to receive Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
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