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After Lifting Mask Mandates Early March, Texas COVID Rates Continue to Plummet Despite Warnings That the Apocalypse Was Nigh
Red State ^ | 04/15/2021 | Brandon Morse

Posted on 04/15/2021 6:49:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

When Texas lifted the mask mandate, Democrats and leftists from both within and outside of the state cursed the name of Governor Greg Abbott and predicted that doom would befall the Lone Star state erelong. In foreboding declarations, they proclaimed from the mountaintops that COVID spikes would hit the state, killing its foolish people that didn’t heed the warnings of their god-king Fauci.

Exhibit A:

Calm down little girl. pic.twitter.com/ILUizb7d1a

— Art TakingBack 🇺🇸 (@ArtValley818_) April 15, 2021

Now, these prophets of death look like the guy on the corner wearing a cardboard sandwich board with “the end is nigh” scrawled on it with the marker they just got done sniffing.

In truth, since lifting the mask mandate, COVID numbers have gone down across the board.

According to WFAA earlier this month, Texas is hitting “record lows” of COVID infection cases:

Texas health officials reported fewer than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases Monday for the first time since early June 2020.

This is one of many statistics that have been declining across the states the past few months.Last Monday, the state opened up vaccines for all Texans 16 years and older. So far, 16,653,045 Texans have received a COVID-19 vaccine dose and 4,561336 people have been fully vaccinated.

State health officials reported 837 cases of COVID-19 Monday. This is the first time there have been fewer than 1,000 new cases since June 8 when there were 638.

Texas has had fewer than 5,000 reported cases every day since March 3.

The state’s current 14-day average is 2,225. This is the lowest it has been since June 6-19 when it was 2,158. The record-high 14-day average happened from Jan. 4-17 when it was 18,915.

So no spike. The self-proclaimed science followers of the left have new data to factor into all their scientism that I’m sure they’ll get right on to factoring as soon as they possibly can.

This does lead to more questions, however.

For one, we can plainly see that vaccines are working. As WFAA reported, over 16 million Texans have received the vaccine. Along with the ever-increasing warming weather, COVID is becoming harder to transmit. Then, on top of that, it’s been proven time and again that lifting lockdowns and mask mandates has little no effect on whether COVID is a problem. In fact, we have evidence that lifting lockdowns help alleviate COVID infection rates.

So now you have to ask yourself why people want continued mask mandates and lockdown measures. If vaccines are working, why do we need to still play by all the rules we were playing by when we didn’t know much about the virus to begin with?

Moreover, you have to wonder why the left isn’t overjoyed by this news. Why they seem to be clinging on to some hope that things will get worse.

Seems to me that people would be happier with further suffering if it meant their political side is proven right. Never mind that lockdowns ruin lives, cause massive depression, and destroy economies. All that matters is that those Republicans and conservatives get theirs.

This is what happens when politics becomes your life. It literally drives you insane.



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid19; infection; texas
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1 posted on 04/15/2021 6:49:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Do people in Texas cities wear masks?


2 posted on 04/15/2021 6:54:19 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SeekAndFind

The conclusion is clear. Chinese made masks cause Covid.

And let’s face it - the huge death rate at the beginning was caused by medical malpractice. Ventilators killed people, and the deaths didn’t drop until the hospitals quit using them as a first choice of treatment.

Then, of course, there was Godfather Cuomo, for whom killing grannies wasn’t personal, it was just business.


3 posted on 04/15/2021 6:56:17 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Then, of course, there was Godfather Cuomo, for whom killing grannies wasn’t personal, it was just business.>>> and Wolf in PA murder 60% of the deaths in our old folks homes as well. So with all that the stats are completely skewed and meaningless.


4 posted on 04/15/2021 7:04:16 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: SeekAndFind
The lefties in Texas wear their mask.

cnn & msnbc are still telling them they will die.

Black folks more so. They are really scared.

For a virus that has a 99.8% survival.

ALL the medical people I meet at their homes, none wear a mask and laugh 'cause my company requires me to wear a respirator.

5 posted on 04/15/2021 7:04:50 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: SeekAndFind

County Judge Lina Hidalgo is keeping Houston/Harris County at Covid Threat Level Red even though daily new cases are 10% of what they were in January 2021.

It’s not about a virus.


6 posted on 04/15/2021 7:06:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Mariner

RE: Do people in Texas cities wear masks?

Yes they do. But it is NOT COMPULSORY.

It’s like Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea long before we even heard of Covid. People who have cold or bad coughs have the habit of wearing masks there as a form of courtesy to others.


7 posted on 04/15/2021 7:13:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

In the deep blue North-east I still hear people talk about the any-day-now surge that will wipe out Texas and set us back as a country when we were so close to ending if we just hung on a bit longer because they were so reckless.


8 posted on 04/15/2021 7:19:56 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Mariner

What did anyone expect with Biden allowing illegals, many Covid positive, infiltrate Texas


9 posted on 04/15/2021 7:22:13 PM PDT by Osagegirl
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Yes , every business I have been too still requires masks of the employees and customers. Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart, liquor stores, Texas DPS office, county tax office, Tom thumb, every fast food joint. Sports bars the staff the patrons to get in the door to the tables. Nothing changed it’s just abbot is not the bad guy the corporations are and they don’t care what you think they only care what some liability lawyer does and the insurance companies behind them. I see one no mask for every ten that do.


10 posted on 04/15/2021 7:23:53 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Deaf Smith

At least use the accurate number it’s 98.2% survival for all age cohorts

Here real well reviewed science

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality


11 posted on 04/15/2021 7:26:28 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: SeekAndFind

Masks reduce the oxygen supply, affecting o2 saturation, and at the same time have people breathing back in bacteria and such that they are expelling or are inhaling that is on their masks, potentially causing other issues.


12 posted on 04/15/2021 7:27:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: JD_UTDallas
Our death rate is skewed by the inclusion of accidents and medical recording.

Texas Congress Critter Ron Wright is one of them.

13 posted on 04/15/2021 7:41:35 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s cause masks never did work and likely only made things worse


14 posted on 04/15/2021 7:44:50 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: a fool in paradise

I’m just a deplorable Neanderthal here on Buffalo Bayou. Academy is pretty much sold out of guns and ammo.


15 posted on 04/15/2021 7:46:21 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Osagegirl

CDC encouraged people who were Covid positive to go vote in person anyway on election day.

This is not about a virus


16 posted on 04/15/2021 7:53:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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His conclusion that ‘vaccines are working’ is not correct.

I want to see 2 equal texas populations compared, one with the vaccine and one without.

IMHO, covid is going away on its own.


17 posted on 04/15/2021 8:05:20 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: a fool in paradise

“It’s not about the virus.”

Nope. And it never was. It was, and still is, about control and submission to our new overlords. They are apoplectic now because Texas and Florida are exposing the pandemic for the scam it is.


18 posted on 04/15/2021 8:10:50 PM PDT by Third Wheel
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To: Third Wheel

And vaccinations have nothing to do with it </s>


19 posted on 04/15/2021 8:19:19 PM PDT by nagant
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To: SeekAndFind

Most doctors have committed malpractice by withholding proven early treatment. Had our doctors been more competent, deaths and hospitalizations would have been much lower.


20 posted on 04/15/2021 8:33:23 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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