“Curious about Abbott’s motivation on this one.”
He doesn’t want Texans to die of the Coronavirus.
Gov. Abbott is strongly pro-life for the born, as well as the unborn. Maybe he’s being too careful, I don’t know, but right or wrong, I hope the citizens of Texas don’t forget what a great governor he has been.
This entire thing hasn't lived up to the hype. The projections were all horribly wrong! It's so bad that the Left is now terrifying citizens with the number of new cases. They don't mention death rate or recovery rate. That wouldn't scare you enough into submission.
“He doesn’t want Texans to die of the Coronavirus.”
That’s so very naive and of childish idealism to believe that Abbot doesn’t want Texans to die form Coronavirus. And if that were even remotely true then why doesn’t Abbot close down the highways and roads to prevent automobile accident deaths; outlaw alcohol, cigarettes, and abortions.
If Abbot/government cared so much about saving lives then government MUST outlaw cars, murder(human free will), trains, planes, cigarettes, alcohol, abortions, illicit/most drugs, suicides, obesity, candy, ice-cream, steaks, pizza, carcinogens, sodas, poisons, chemicals, knives, guns, clubs, ropes, hammers, axes, sheets, pillows, piano wire, fishing lines and on-and-on. Yes, anything that can be deemed a means that could risk health/death or be used by individual-agency to cause the same. Indeed, eventually free will, choice, leaving your home and walking would be heavily regulated in the name of health and saving lives. Indeed, just think of all the lives government can save from bad habits and bad choices?
LOL! How much more absurd and ridiculous do you want to get?
I take coronavirus(COVID-19) no more seriously than the 1000’s of pathogens I am exposed to EVERY SINGLE DAY. As well as EVERY risk to my life from the choices I make to the acts of God I cannot control. I am at risk of harm and loss of my life every time I drive my car... every step I take, every moment of every waking hour of every day of my life. It’s called... ‘living’! Yes, that’s life! And the only way I cope with the everyday exposure of life’s risks is to ignore it all and just live.
Contracting COVID-19 is NOT a death sentence. No more a death sentence then any influenza virus contracted each flu season. Over 50,000 die in the US every year from complications caused by influenza, and an annual WORLDWIDE influenza epidemic that results in 3-5 million cases of severe illness and mortality upwards between 350,000 & 500,000 deaths... EVERY YEAR! That’s just from the influenza virus strains alone.
Good grief! We risk death EVERY day when we get behind the wheel of our car, travel on a bus, train, plane or simply by walking. We risk illness/death every day to pathogen exposure when we engage in free-roaming personal movement; social/trade/business commerce; continually exposing ourselves to infection through numerous common contagion venues. Do you think twice about that risk; that you could die!? NO! If you did, you would never leave the house having locked yourself in a sealed bubble!
Be it old age, an accident, by a choice, bad-luck or god... life is full of risks. And one day death will finally find you, and that is 100% inevitable.
Allow your immune system and nature to do its job. A virus will be a virus. It infects/spreads and then fades-away/burns-out. Naturally built immunity along with herd immunity is what causes the virus to lose its virulence... not by wearing stupid porous masks. You can’t hide from or run from COVID. Sooner or later you WILL be infected. If you feel so insecure than STAY HOME! It is YOUR responsibility to be vigilant using personal precautions if you feel at-risk or vulnerable, NOT to have government force everyone else to be a wall of protection built around you for the sake of YOUR safety!
Quarantine is meant for those who are clinically sick with a virulent life-threatening disease ... NOT for those who are asymptomatic and healthy.
So grow up everybody, use common sense and stop being fear-mongering ‘Karen’ control freaks... and leave the mask shaming hysteria at home.
Government isn’t Mommy, and we aren’t children that need protection from life’s choices.
Unless you are clinically-ill with quarantine... it is YOUR choice to wear a mask and YOUR choice to leave your home. It is NOT the responsibility or authority of government to control/impose either in the name of ‘saving lives.’
That’s pure BS!