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Texas Governor Greg Abbott Ends Statewide Mask Mandate, Opens State 100%
CBSDFW ^ | 03/02/2021 | CBSDFW.com Staff

Posted on 03/02/2021 11:59:33 AM PST by PAR35

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To: Nomad577

‘I’m not sure what to think but I feel like we’ve already made this mistake in Texas twice relaxing the rules too early and it created a giant mess...’

uh, don’t know how to tell you this, but ‘relaxing rules’ didn’t cause any mess; crazed politicians and doctors did...

and why is it ‘too early’now; these same wackos were pushing the two weeks to flatten the curve almost a year ago...

you want to wear the forking mask, go ahead...


101 posted on 03/02/2021 1:38:07 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: dhuls
Thanks. I actually posted it in a separate thread a bit ago: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3938976/posts
102 posted on 03/02/2021 1:38:15 PM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: PAR35

He should have never closed it.


103 posted on 03/02/2021 1:42:39 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: PAR35

Great end the the tyranny across the nation.


104 posted on 03/02/2021 1:49:17 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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Whitmer tried the mask mandate thing here in Michigan..but the Michigan Supreme Court smacked her ass down....how she got around it was by letting the state health director issue the mandates instead....they laid it all on businesses and punished them if they allowed anyone in mask less...alot of the businesses put these fake signs in the windows saying masks were a ‘STATE LAW”....which was absurd. It all came down to if you wanted to fight with the stores about it....


105 posted on 03/02/2021 1:56:11 PM PST by basalt
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To: Nomad577

The mistake was not “relaxing the rules”-it was making them in the 1st place based on hysteria and fake science promoted by power-mad research docs like Fauci and politicians with a control fetish-2 weeks turned into a year to flatten a curve that may or may not have existed-which makes no sense in the real world-but if you are one of those who still believes the Wuhan virus is really not going to dare to get into a mask with openings comparable to a chainlink fence, then by all means, keep that face diaper on...

A couple of Karens living here on the road are still screaming “mask, mask”-interesting that they operate a tourist trap nearby, and are making and selling all kinds of plain and fancy masks for $5 to $12 in the shop-they do not want this new stream of income from fear to end...


106 posted on 03/02/2021 1:59:33 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: Nomad577

Most of my restaurant/bar owner and worker friends are pretty upset about it, freaking out a lot. They liked the statewide and city mandates because it allowed small business owners to not be the “bad guy” in the situation if they have to enforce their own rules

I’m not sure what to think but I feel like we’ve already made this mistake in Texas twice relaxing the rules too early and it created a giant mess

Also we are only 49th in %vaccinated so there’s that


I first looked for your /sarc tag.

Then, I realized you are.....serious.

We know SEVERAL restaurant and bar owners/workers that are ONLY UPSET about all of the business they have either lost, or....business completely closed....due to these inane mask mandates.

There should have NEVER been one, to begin with....like Florida.

If Karen’s want to wear one, go right ahead.

The REAL science proves they do NOTHING, except CAUSE PROBLEMS.

Relaxing rules has NOT created a ‘giant mess’, in TX, or anywhere else.

Geez. You’re sounding like you might have a lot in common with the lady I saw driving on I-10, this past weekend, BY HERSELF in her car, wearing a dang mask.

Again...if it makes you feel ‘better’, go right ahead....but....don’t kill an economy or cause others more illness/stress by mandating they wear one.


107 posted on 03/02/2021 2:04:00 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Texan5

^5


108 posted on 03/02/2021 2:04:28 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Envisioning

I say it every time King Clay orders a decree. In spite of my moniker, I am a Fort Worthian :) although I foresee Tarrant County slipping into the blue morass


109 posted on 03/02/2021 2:06:20 PM PST by DallasGal (Is wishing someone would die really all that bad?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hell, Iowa did this a month ago.


110 posted on 03/02/2021 2:08:56 PM PST by skimbell
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To: Sacajaweau

Problem is, people run and get a Covid test if they sneeeze or have a sniffle and this inflates the numbers. Everyone I know has had a least one Covid test-many tested several times, over nothing. The false positives have been devastating.


111 posted on 03/02/2021 2:11:22 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
They need to figure out what happened with that outage thing.

I want to like Abbott but he's still a politician. Whether you agree with this decision or not it is obviously a way to distract from the freeze.

112 posted on 03/02/2021 2:11:33 PM PST by TexasKamaAina (There are no solutions; there are only tradeoffs. - Thomas Sowell)
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To: TexasKamaAina

Distance from the freeze fail/ERCOT fail and .... pick up speed he lost, to DeSantis.


113 posted on 03/02/2021 2:12:20 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Hazwaste

Given the huge downturn in cases and hospitalizations, and the rollout of vaccines, I think that the governor is being...

Plus there are MANY treatments that Fauci NEVER mentions that thankfully, many doctors are using successfully.


114 posted on 03/02/2021 2:12:43 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: SamAdams76
Why?
It took Texas a month to follow Iowa's lead.
115 posted on 03/02/2021 2:14:16 PM PST by skimbell
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To: Joe Brower

At Home Depot, no one is removed for failing to wear a mask. Employees are encouraged to ask a customer if they want a mask to be provided, but no further engagement is allowed.


116 posted on 03/02/2021 2:18:20 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Nomad577
This is why Dennis Prager's comment several years ago when speaking about an upcoming tour of Israel several listeners to his radio program said that they would like to go but that they were going to wait until it's safe to do to.

Prager's polite response is so true and it is so appropriate to today's continuing covid hysteria:
"Until it's safe" means "never."

117 posted on 03/02/2021 2:19:28 PM PST by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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To: Nomad577

Maybe you should move somewhere safe like New York City. They have some pretty solid lockdowns. And a death rate per 100,000 more than twice as high as Texas. (NYC - 350 deaths per 100,000; Texas 148 per 100,000 people. Source CDC Covid Data Tracker)


118 posted on 03/02/2021 2:21:28 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Thanks! He’s hoping for Texas Tech. Yes Computer Science. He already got into Oregon Tech—but very cold! He’s a skilled programmer already (had 2 P/T jobs coding now), but his GPA is not the best, so he didn’t apply to top schools.

He is looking for public school with reasonable out-of-state tuition. And TX really offers that (FL, for example, does not).

He loves New Orleans and was accepted into University of New Orleans but it’s looking like they are planning still hybrid/online/in-person mix. Most colleges nationwide seem to be still thinking along those lines for Fall 2021 unfortunately.

Thanks again. He got into 4 Cal States which of course is the most affordable option but they are hopeless about reopening. Chico State already announced only 30% in person classes will be offered—and it’s 7 months from now!


119 posted on 03/02/2021 2:22:39 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: PAR35

Will he defend the border from the illegals?


120 posted on 03/02/2021 2:26:42 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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