Posted on 04/13/2020 12:48:39 PM PDT by MNDude
I read Texas is loosening Covid restrictions (while much of the rest of the country is doing more).
I'm wondering what are the results of this so far. Are people going out more?
Governor Abbott just extended his order for another 30 days. The Governor’s office announced that he would release a plan for phasing out the restrictions this week (he would release a plan, not that he would start phasing out restrictions) and the libs on the interweb all started having conniption fits.
Gov Abbott will have some new guidelines out next Monday. Until then he said to stay put, and help flatten the curve.
He indicates an interest in loosening the rules but I do not believe he has issued an order to this yet. I think Texas will be in the lead on this.
I have not noticed any change yet.
Gov. Abbott is working on it......probably plan in place in the next couple of weeks.....safety for workers and safety guidelines for employers.......God Bless Texas!!!
As a native Texan, I’m real close to declaring a “come on down” to all family and friends. Tell them all to bring beef, beer or whatever you’re drinking, plus all the guns and ammo you can carry. Uninvited visitors will be deterred with whatever force is required!!
That’s the way we roll!!
In Dallas almost everything looks normal, not many masks.
I am still using mine and not going out, working from home.
G-store once a week with mask and eye protection.
Folks doing the early opening are mostly masked, later in the day, no masks.
There are actually a lot of people moving around outside.
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...I don’t believe anything has really changed regarding
this “shelter-in-place” business down here in the Lone
Star State........... most retail stores
are still closed or have instituted nut-cake in-store
harrassments of customers (one-way arrows down aisles,
stuff like that...I’m waiting for the first “arrow police”
to tell me I’m going the wrong way down an aisle..)
Have not had the opportunity to get a haircut in a month...
barbershops, hair salons, etc. are not “essential” businesses....
I have a bad feeling Trump is going to give the Doom twins their two week extension on 5/1. They will be pushing for “just two more” after that. They started pushing their two weeks at a time tactic early last week. There will be any Govt spending orgy “to soften the blow to the American people”. I sure hope I am wrong.
I don’t know why we ever shut down. 278 total CV deaths in 4 months in the second largest state in the Union. We get that many deaths per day from other sicknesses, homicides, car fatalities etc.
“I don’t know why we ever shut down.”
Yeah it’s iffy.
SARS, 2009:
60 million cases
274,304 hospitalizations
12,469 deaths
No shutdowns. Looks like we will easily double that death count though. How many deaths without the shutdowns? We’ll never know.
We played tennis yesterday at The Courts in McKinney. So while Frisco shut us out of their high school courts, McKinney courts were full. I love everything about McKinney.
I lived through Asian flu. Approximately 116,000 deaths in the US. Population around 177 million half of what it is today. No shutdowns. Same with Hong Kong flu. Approximately 100,000 deaths with around 120 million less people than today. No shutdowns.
The parking lots of all the Walmarts were full on Easter Sunday. With a piddly 287 deaths in a state our size, it is stupid to think we are going to put up with being locked up at home much longer.
Yeah that is the results of being a "woke" justified nation.
Stump you're toe, go to the ER.
Get a runny nose, go to the doctor.
Feel ill, get a prescription.
Listen to a bunch of quacks that do not know schift from shinola.
He extended the emergency declaration, not the restrictions. They are two different things.
AFAIK, there was no directive that the Federal government (taxpayers) would pay all medical costs for anyone diagnosed with SARS back in 2009. Today’s mandate is quite an incentive to say Covid19, even without the test.
Does a very frail, bedridden person with long term dementia who has trouble breathing in the days/ hours before death now get counted as having died from Covid19? Could this happen even if the person, already in hospice care, dies at home?
It is too bad that we cannot trust our government, the media or the medical establishment to be honest with us.
Saw people out playing golf at several courses in McKinney on Saturday. It was good to see. Lots of people out walking and riding bikes.
What eye protection are you using?
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