Indeed it is! Gov Abbott is acting like a scaredy cat again and Austin/Travis county are full-steam ahead (along with the compliant local media) to get folks panicked again. Now they're 'finalizing plans' for a field hospital to treat 1,500 patients, wasting taxpayers money (natch) and keeping the fear tactics in hi-gear.
This was never about the Kung Flu. It's about controlling the populace and nothing more.
How strange. My son worked in a major Austin hospital and he just took another job because he can't handle another lay off. Even if he could transfer to another hospital in their system,the whole system is on the verge of bankruptcy.
This is not "scare tactics". Wimpy Abbott is set on destroying Texas economy. I once thought he was just a "useful idiot" but no more.
The Feds paid $30 million for a 3000 bed facility in the Denver convention center.
It was taken down without a single patient.
Same in big cities across the country.