Posted on 04/10/2020 5:10:59 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Living in Texas is a blessing in so many ways. One of the best of those ways has been to enjoy the blessings of a state run by Republicans for the last 26 years, and current Governor Greg Abbott is proving in many way to be the best of them.
At a news conference today, Gov. Abbott announced that he will be among the first governors in the nation to issue an executive order to authorize businesses in our state shut down due to the Wuhan Virus to begin re-opening as soon as next week. Texas has been blessed to have been fairly lightly hit by the virus, with most of its counties outside of the major population centers experiencing either no cases or just a handful. Even the state’s huge cities, like Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, have been extremely lightly impacted compared to cities in other states.
Like President Donald Trump, Abbott promises the reopening will be strategically done in order to protect human life, and will no doubt include measures like self-quarantining by those who are most vulnerable to the virus. But the existence of a clearly effective treatment regime, thanks to the hydroxychloroquine/zinc combination, and social distancing measures that can be practiced by those in the workplace now make it possible for states to begin shifting from a shelter-in-place strategy to a quarantine-plus-treatment approach.
Here is an excerpt from a Fox News story on the matter:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday he plans to sign an executive order next week outlining guidelines for how businesses in the state can start to reopen after being shut down over coronavirus.
“Next week I will be providing an executive order talking about what will be done in Texas about reopening Texas businesses,” Abbott said during a Friday news conference, saying it will be done “in a way that will be safe for that economic revitalization.”
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He added: “We will focus on protecting lives while restoring livelihoods. We can and we must do this,”
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As President Trump has consistently emphasized, a strategy designed to safely reopen the nation’s economy will not involve a one-size-fits-all timeline. Texas, in large part to its advanced emergency management practices that have evolved from decades of practice dealing with major storm, fire, drought and hurricane events, has been able to weather this latest storm better than most.
This successful addressing of the front-end of this pandemic now positions the Lone Star State to be on the leading edge of the coming recovery – and make no doubt about it: The recovering is coming.
God Bless Texas, God Bless Gov. Abbott and God Bless America on this Good Friday.
That is all.
Texas leads the way, again!
SANITY!!
About time!
God bless Texas!
I was really surprised when he shut down the state parks. Hope he opens those first.
OPEN YOUR STATE!!!
Finally ! SANITY! YES!
I hope the SC governor sees this and gets a clue.
As always. Go Texas!
Thank you Governor!
From San Antonio.
God I wish I lived in Texas instead of commiefornia
Great news!
Open the truck stops for the truckers!
The statists who now run Colorado are already making up fake statistics to justify pushing this into May. They will not easily give up their new power.
It's like their globull warming crap. The official statistics don't show what's really happening. The real statistics are hiding, apparently.
That will put pressure on other Governors and Pres. Trump.-Tom
I work as a hotel shuttle driver by DFW airport, and I feel that I have already been infected, because I took a ton of people that I picked up coming back from China between November and January, when this first started.
Time for Fauci and HansBirx to be thanked sincerely or not and given a back seat consultation role or no role. Time for business to run the Corona task force.
I wonder if Mr Clay Jenkins is going to fight this in any way. He was pushing for an extention to the middle of May.
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