Posted on 03/26/2021 7:07:34 AM PDT by lightman
fter two weeks of lifting its mask mandate and allowing businesses to open at full capacity, Texas is not seeing a surge of new COVID-19 cases.
Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, issued an executive order (pdf) that went into effect on March 10 to loosen COVID-19 restrictions. Although the government’s statewide mask mandate was lifted, individual businesses were still able to “limit capacity” or impose mask mandates at their own choosing.
But in Austin and Travis County, residents 10 years or older still have to wear a mask outside their home after a district judge refused to grant Attorney General Ken Paxton a restraining order that would have ended a mask mandate enforced by Travis County and Austin city officials. The trial is set to take place on March 26.
Texas had been witnessing a downward trend in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations prior to Abbott’s announcement ending the restrictions.
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) posted on Twitter yesterday that Texas saw a seven-day average decrease in the daily number of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
At the time the executive order was issued, March 2, new COVID-19 cases in the state stood at 7,240 cases, with a seven-day average of 7,259 cases. That number dropped to 5,350 cases by March 10 when the executive order came into effect and the economy fully opened.
Two weeks later on March 24, the number of daily new cases stands at 3,827, with a seven-day average of 3,401 cases. Epoch Times Photo Texas Governor Greg Abbott arrives for his COVID-19 press conference at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on March 29, 2020. (Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images)
Abbott included in his order a provision for county judges across the state’s 22 hospital regions to “use COVID-19 mitigation strategies” if hospitalizations rise over 15 percent of “hospital bed capacity” for seven straight days.
“County Judges may not impose jail time for not following COVID-19 orders nor may any penalties be imposed for failing to wear a face mask. If restrictions are imposed at a county level, those restrictions may not include reducing capacity to less than 50% for any type of entity,” he added.
Abbott’s mask mandate rollback had attracted criticism from high-profile figures, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top adviser to President Joe Biden.
“We understand people’s need to get back to normal, and we’re going in that direction. But when you start doing things like completely putting aside all public health measures as if you’re turning a light switch off, that’s quite risky,” Fauci said during an appearance on CNN earlier this month. “We don’t want to see another surge, and that’s inviting one when you do that.”
Mississippi also announced it was lifting COVID-19 related restrictions on March 2.
“Starting tomorrow, we are lifting all of our county mask mandates and businesses will be able to operate at full capacity without any state-imposed rules,” Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said on Twitter. “Our hospitalizations and case numbers have plummeted, and the vaccine is being rapidly distributed. It is the time!”
In Mississippi, new COVID-19 cases have also been steadily declining but not as much as in Texas.
There were 301 cases with a seven-day average of 582 on March 2. Two weeks later, Mississippi had 387 new cases and a seven-day average of 289 cases.
The state’s death toll is significantly lower than Texas, with four deaths on March 24 and a seven-day average of 6 deaths.
Texas saw 163 deaths on the same day, with a seven-day average of 123. This is down from March 10 which saw 202 deaths and a seven-day average of 190 deaths. Texas has around ten times the population of Mississippi.
At the time of publishing, more than six million Texan residents and 720,607 Mississippians have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Austin simply won’t comply
They are compliant mask wearers
They have bought into the fear
No Surge in COVID Two Weeks After Mask Mandate Lifted in Texas
epoch times ^ | 26 March A.D., 2021 | Meiling Lee
Posted on 3/26/2021, 7:07:34 AM by lightman
After two weeks of lifting its mask mandate and allowing businesses to open at full capacity, Texas is not seeing a surge of new COVID-19 cases.
Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, issued an executive order (pdf) that went into effect on March 10 to loosen COVID-19 restrictions. Although the government’s statewide mask mandate was lifted, individual businesses were still able to “limit capacity” or impose mask mandates at their own choosing.
Which is amazing with all of the possible Covid infected illegals who have crossed the borders into Texas.
Xiden is doing the best that he can to elevate the ChinaVirus in Texas with his Open Borders policies. Give him time.
Not to worry, the surge in illegal immigrants caused by the Biden- Harris clown show and the dumping of these people into Texas cities will rectify this soon.
Yup.
Buy-Dung wants to rectum-fy us.
I predict there will also be no surge in Florida....
Chain link screens don’t keep mosquitoes out of your house either.
Like installing a screen door on a submarine.
Which is amazing with all of the possible Covid infected illegals
who have crossed the borders into Texas.
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And the current administration can take full responsibility for
much of that. You’d think with a pandemic that the gov’t would
attempt to limit most sources of contact until things were under
better control.
You’d think with a pandemic that the gov’t would
attempt to limit most sources of contact until things were under better control.
Yes! Let the epidemic of new illegals face the same rules we have had to face in the last year re Covid 19.
Bring in the infected illegals to weaken the current Texas governor and his staff.
The mask of the “Big Lie” is being ripped away—It never was as bad as marketed. It was a tool only to get rid of Trump. He will be back—and the next time—no more Mr. Nice Trump. It will be Payback Time!
And then give those Illegal Aliens the vote in order to turn Texas into a Third World Schiffhole.
It’s already Payback Time.
How many of the COVID “cases” involved symptoms? Mild symptoms? More serious symptoms?
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