Posted on 03/29/2020 5:14:47 PM PDT by eastexsteve
Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday expanded the state’s mandatory self-quarantine order for travel from coronavirus hot spots, including road travel out of Louisiana.
The Texas Department of Public Safety will monitor interstates and other entry points into Texas to ensure that travelers out of Louisiana abide by the 14-day quarantine, or length of stay in Texas, whichever is shortest, Abbott said.
Commercial travel will be exempt, he said.
Abbott also expanded the mandatory quarantine order to include travelers on flights out of Miami, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago and any airport in California and Washington state.
Abbott’s previous quarantine order, issued Thursday, applied air travelers whose point of origin or point of last departure came from airports in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut or New Orleans.
Abbott’s news conference from the Texas Capitol came as the state death toll from COVID-19, the disease linked to the coronavirus, rose to 34 by noon Sunday, up from 27 the day before.
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Good
Gov. Abbott is doing the exact right thing and protecting the people of Texas and Texas’ States’ Rights.
Has any locale in the US yet reached the peak of cases??
I have heard some suggest he would be fine material for a run in ‘24.
They’re one Katrina too late.
[The Texas Department of Public Safety will monitor interstates and other entry points into Texas to ensure that travelers out of Louisiana abide by the 14-day quarantine, or length of stay in Texas, whichever is shortest, Abbott said.]
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis
Thank you,"Wimpie" Abbott
Politically popular, some medical benefit but really unconstitutional. Soon you will be seeing counties and towns setting up roadblocks. Then food and real shortages followed by social and political unrest will occur. These domestic travel restrictions will get out of hand.
we don’t need no coon asses.
BS! Any governor of any state not testing NYers/? for infection, may be endangering the health and lives of the citizens, he/she swore to protect as their governor!
Please show us where our Constitution gives you the right to spread any plague from your state to any other state!
Please check my tagline!
Dude, this isn’t Stormfront, OK?
Arizona needs to do that. Californians are thumbing their noses at Arizona border resort town residents and coming here with their boats in spite of the Califonia stay at home order. Also near by California towns are coming into Arizoba border towns and emptying the grocery shelves
You're not lying about that, but Rick Perry was governor for that cluster.
As a Texan living in Georgia.
It is a polite way of saying we do not want you here.
The next step will not bee so nice.
Texas is a Republic AND can enforce their laws.
Read the Texas Constitution and tell me that you a damn yankee carpetbagger has any right to say no.
Come and Take it!
Bump
What do you mean by that?
good natured slang for cajuns
you know nothing of Louisiana or TX
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