President Donald Trump cheered on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Tuesday for ordering a lift on the state’s stay at home order and allowing some businesses to reopen during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Harris County Exec Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Police Chief Art Acevado have already weighed in causing Gov Yeah-but to have a tantrum:
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s order that required all residents over the age of 10 to wear face masks in public will now not carry a $1,000 fine, according to Gov. Greg Abbott.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo issued a warning for some people who refuse to wear masks in some businesses that have put their own requirements in place.
People who enter some private businesses without a mask could face criminal trespassing, Acevedo says
Gov can keep whining politically.
Harris County and Houston officials coming down on the right side of public safety.
So what you do you think Texans will do? Because I don’t think all these restaurants and theaters are going to see many people show up. I read too that restaurants in Dallas are in shock - they aren’t ready to open.
We will soon have more Americans who have died from Covid-19 than the number of voters in PA, MI and WI that tipped the EC to trump
That or the number of Russian agents, trolls, bots, etc. that achieved the same goal…
Let’s wait for two weeks. We’ll see what happens.
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Here’s the way this is going to work out.
Trump applauds governors who “open up”.
All is well for a week or two or three.
Numbers start going up.
Trump denigrates governors who “opened up” too early.
Trump’s actions are easily described with a very simple process diagram that illustrates the way Trump has always acted. It’s his “heads I win, tails you lose” approach to everything.
I can’t find the article now but this morning I read they are already seeing upticks in new cases in places (abroad) that have just recently partially reopened.
As that great epidemiologist Gomer Pyle used to say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise.”
I’m sure 25% occupancy is plenty to keep resturants going given the industries well known substantial operating margins so I guess this means there’ll be no need for these businesses to take on any of the small business loans Congress approved allowing those funds to be diverted to more deserving donor… I mean businesses.
They will be lucky to seat 10% of their former patronage until things improve.
Dallas Co. is not happy about this at all.
Metro Houston has adapted to the rules put in place (by Judge Hidalgo and Mayor Turner). Which have brought very good results to this point. Can’t say there have even been protests here-- to my knowledge.
Abbott wants to interfere in places that have been on-point. Due to Dan Patrick’s manipulative ways. We are one of those ‘ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ situations-- that Repubs just have to gum up.
Then when the shit hits the fan and cases go up he’ll have some other bad thing not to take the blame for. Give that man a noble prize, he’s got an igneous mind!
Another protest to let folks go back to work in Raleigh NC, but supposedly few folks this time…wonder if some of the previous folks are feeling under the weather or scared because of the leader that got diagnosed?!
He’s not fighting science, he’s making it up as he goes along!
And holy shit can he do this? Sending people into the mines to work next?
The virus is predictable. It has knowable properties, modes of transmission. It’s R naught is calculable and is dependent in part on crowding and extent of human-human interaction. If social distancing is relaxed, the R naught will rise above 1again and there will be another spike of cases. It’s like saying 1+1 = 2. The virus is not some PR problem to massage and manage.
Since most of the affected states (CO excepted) have republican governors, who will countermand the order? The employees would have to strike, or the plants would have to meet CDC guidelines (which, IMO would not preclude infection).
Don’t matter to me personally. I can live with or without meat. But endangering these workers, many of whom are minorities, is fundamentally a racist order.
Jesus. He wants to kill the workers in the plants.
Typical scientist. Once again you’re just saying that because it’s 1) true, 2) documentable, and 3) repeatable.