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Title: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: thackney on March 02, 2021, 08:04:53 pm
‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/03/02/texas-gov-greg-abbott-to-make-statewide-announcement-in-lubbock/
 March 2, 2021

Exactly eight months after issuing a mask mandate in most Texas counties, Gov. Greg Abbott reversed that order on Tuesday, along with most other statewide COVID-19 orders he signed last year.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made the statewide announcement Tuesday while speaking to the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce.

“Too many Texans have been sidelined from employment opportunities,” Abbott said. “Too many small business owners have struggled to pay their bills. This must end. It is now time to open Texas 100%.”

Also effective next Wednesday, all businesses regardless of classifications are allowed to open to 100% capacity, Abbott said....
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Bigun on March 02, 2021, 08:10:52 pm
It's about damned time!  There was never any need for this foolishness in the first place!
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: mystery-ak on March 02, 2021, 08:25:11 pm
Texas Declares That America is Back! *NO* Mask Mandate, Businesses Can Open 100% Capacity

by Kyle Becker
18 minutes ago
updated 6 minutes ago


Texas has declared that “America is back.”

After a year of the Democrats’ destructive and futile lockdowns, mask mandates that did nothing significant to slow the spread, and a full year since the 15 days to slow the spread lie, the Lone Star State is taking a bold stand on behalf of freedom.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott made the stunning announcement today:



more
https://trendingpolitics.com/texas-declares-that-america-is-back-no-mask-mandate-businesses-can-open-100-capacity-knab/
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Hoodat on March 02, 2021, 08:26:35 pm
Free at last!  Free at last!  Thank God Almighty - free at last!
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Bigun on March 02, 2021, 08:28:18 pm
It's about damned time! There was never any need for this BS in the first place!
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Hoodat on March 02, 2021, 08:29:06 pm
Related:  http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,430368.0/topicseen.html
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: thackney on March 02, 2021, 08:42:12 pm
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...If COVID-19 hospitalizations in any of the 22 hospital regions in Texas get above 15% of the hospital bed capacity in that region for seven straight days, a County Judge in that region may use COVID-19 mitigation strategies. However, 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.

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-lifts-mask-mandate-opens-texas-100-percent
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: RetBobbyMI on March 02, 2021, 09:36:54 pm
Woo Hoo!!! Texas Independence Day again.

Of course, Dem Mayors and County Judges oppose as does the Texas Dem Party. That in itself shows it is all political.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: libertybele on March 02, 2021, 09:45:09 pm
 Yay for Texas!!!!!   Open up and get your huge economy going again.  The country needs TX strong!!!
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on March 02, 2021, 10:40:06 pm
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Governor rolls back COVID-19 restrictions in Mississippi
16 ABC, Mar 2, 2021

https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-governor-expected-to-begin-rolling-back-covid-19-restrictions/35699472#
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: libertybele on March 02, 2021, 10:52:34 pm
Time for all states to thumb their noses and open up.  Trump ensured that the states had proper medical equipment, expansion of hospital space and that the rollout of the vaccines would be expedited.  Time to open up folks! Time to realize that Facui and crew are full of it.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: GrouchoTex on March 02, 2021, 10:54:18 pm
Both Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester expressed how disappointed they are with Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision.

Imagine that!
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on March 03, 2021, 03:41:46 am
It's about damned time!  There was never any need for this foolishness in the first place!
Besides the fact it is not allowed in the Texas Constitution to dismantle freedoms this long.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Wingnut on March 03, 2021, 04:30:57 am
Both Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester expressed how disappointed they are with Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision.

Imagine that!

I read that this morning.  I said to myself... Self. Iam shocked that two fine rats would say such a thing.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Bigun on March 03, 2021, 02:56:06 pm
I read that this morning.  I said to myself... Self. Iam shocked that two fine rats would say such a thing.

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My reaction to those two idiots crying.

Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Bigun on March 03, 2021, 02:57:17 pm
Besides the fact it is not allowed in the Texas Constitution to dismantle freedoms this long.

 :yowsa: but Constitutions are so out of style now!
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: txradioguy on March 03, 2021, 02:57:48 pm
Great timing by the Governor as well making the announcement on Texas Independence Day.

I just with the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky had the spine enough to make the same proclamation.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: RetBobbyMI on March 03, 2021, 04:00:46 pm
Both Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester expressed how disappointed they are with Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision.

Imagine that!
Most all of the Dem mayors and county judges, along with the Texas dem Party, chimed in that Abbott's move "is a mistake".  That shows the mass masking and lockdowns are all political.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: corbe on March 03, 2021, 04:06:49 pm
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Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on March 03, 2021, 04:31:17 pm
Great timing by the Governor as well making the announcement on Texas Independence Day.

I just with the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky had the spine enough to make the same proclamation.
I believe he did it as spring break is coming, and the rules would be broken anyway.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: mystery-ak on March 03, 2021, 05:00:26 pm
AOC Rages over Texas Reopening: ‘This Endangers the Entire Country and Beyond’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/03/aoc-rages-over-texas-reopening-this-endangers-the-entire-country-and-beyond/
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on March 03, 2021, 05:33:48 pm
Now Texas needs to deal with the destruction caused b y Biden.

108 Illegal Immigrants Released by Border Patrol in Texas Tested Positive for COVID-19: Officials
https://www.theepochtimes.com/108-illegal-immigrants-released-by-border-patrol-in-texas-tested-positive-for-covid-19-officials_3719020.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-03-03-2
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: thackney on March 03, 2021, 07:18:57 pm
AOC Rages over Texas Reopening: ‘This Endangers the Entire Country and Beyond’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/03/aoc-rages-over-texas-reopening-this-endangers-the-entire-country-and-beyond/

And is she just pretending Florida does not exist?

DeSantis extends order banning local governments from enforcing mask mandate violations
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/11/25/gov-desantis-extends-order-banning-local-governments-from-enforcing-mask-mandate-violations/
November 25, 2020
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: mystery-ak on March 03, 2021, 07:25:11 pm
Keith Olbermann: Texas Shouldn’t Get Coronavirus Vaccine
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/03/03/keith-olbermann-texas-shouldnt-get-coronavirus-vaccine/
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Hoodat on March 03, 2021, 07:40:14 pm
Keith Olbermann: Texas Shouldn’t Get Coronavirus Vaccine
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/03/03/keith-olbermann-texas-shouldnt-get-coronavirus-vaccine/

Keith Olbermann blows goats.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: PeteS in CA on March 03, 2021, 07:40:53 pm
Keith Olbermann: Texas Shouldn’t Get Coronavirus Vaccine
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/03/03/keith-olbermann-texas-shouldnt-get-coronavirus-vaccine/

OK Keefie.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Alamo Drafthouse Still Requires Masks and Wants You to Know About It

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2021/03/03/alamo-drafthouse-still-requires-masks-and-wants-you-to-know-about-it-n1429707

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Here’s a fun thing that liberals do literally every day: They call you a fascist if you want the government to leave you alone. They say you’re a Nazi if you insist you can run your own life without some bureaucrat telling you what to do. If you think a problem, old or new, can be solved with anything short of a federal agent pointing a gun at your head, you’re the worst person in the world and you need to be #canceled. Libs always get it exactly backwards, and then they congratulate themselves for being so smart.

That’s why our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters are falling all over each other to applaud the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain for bravely requiring masks, after Texas Governor Greg Abbott just lifted the state’s mask mandate:

Alamo Drafthouse theater chain be woke!
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: txradioguy on March 04, 2021, 12:48:36 am
Wanna know how bad bath tub boy's take was on what Texas did?

A Democrat State representative called Olbermann a "douchebag"
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: PeteS in CA on March 04, 2021, 01:08:46 am
Wanna know how bad bath tub boy's take was on what Texas did?

A Democrat State representative called Olbermann a "douchebag"

But did he accept LIEden calling Texans "Neanderthals"?
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: txradioguy on March 04, 2021, 01:21:17 am
But did he accept LIEden calling Texans "Neanderthals"?

Haven't heard anything about that one yet.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: RetBobbyMI on March 04, 2021, 01:26:44 am
AOC Rages over Texas Reopening: ‘This Endangers the Entire Country and Beyond’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/03/aoc-rages-over-texas-reopening-this-endangers-the-entire-country-and-beyond/

In other words, she's saying people having their freedom is a danger to society.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: PeteS in CA on March 04, 2021, 01:59:51 am
Alamo Drafthouse Still Requires Masks and Wants You to Know About It

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jim-treacher/2021/03/03/alamo-drafthouse-still-requires-masks-and-wants-you-to-know-about-it-n1429707

Alamo Drafthouse theater chain be woke!

 :silly:

The future of the Alamo Drafthouse in the Mission is in jeopardy

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/alamo-drafthouse-new-mission-sf-bankruptcy-closing-15997678.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

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Movie theaters have been among the businesses hit hardest by the pandemic. The Alamo Drafthouse has long been an outlier in its ability to adapt to the changing tastes of moviegoers, but they haven't been spared from the consequences of nearly a year of limited operation.

The Austin-based chain announced Wednesday that it will commence voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy and has "entered into an asset purchase agreement for the sale of substantially all its assets to its senior lender group."

As a consequence, three of its locations will close, including the flagship Alamo Drafthouse Ritz in Austin, as well as theaters in Kansas City, MO and New Braunfels, TX.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Victoria33 on March 04, 2021, 02:00:52 am
@Cyber Liberty
@catfish1957

March 10, next Wednesday, is the day Texas returns to "normal".  Two or three weeks later, we will know the outcome of being "normal".  I think that will be the "test" to determine if "normal" stays or we have to back up to "abnormal".
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Wingnut on March 04, 2021, 02:04:37 am
@Cyber Liberty
@catfish1957

March 10, next Wednesday, is the day Texas returns to "normal".  Two or three weeks later, we will know the outcome of being "normal".  I think that will be the "test" to determine if "normal" stays or we have to back up to "abnormal".

You must love being a prisoner in your home. 
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: catfish1957 on March 04, 2021, 03:47:10 am
@Cyber Liberty
@catfish1957

March 10, next Wednesday, is the day Texas returns to "normal".  Two or three weeks later, we will know the outcome of being "normal".  I think that will be the "test" to determine if "normal" stays or we have to back up to "abnormal".

I think we will really start seeing the numbers drop drastically post Vax  as "islands" of infection start isolating the virus from spreading.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: PeteS in CA on March 04, 2021, 02:45:52 pm
1. Like most (all?) US states, TX is in a trough for new cases numbers, and heading into a trough for daily deaths numbers.

2. The population of people who have immunity due to having recovered is increasing.

3. The population of people who have been vaccinated is increasing.

Consequently, I think reality will force the MSM to memory-hole LIEden's "Neanderthal thinking" comment.

Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: Hoodat on March 04, 2021, 03:20:21 pm
1. Like most (all?) US states, TX is in a trough for new cases numbers, and heading into a trough for daily deaths numbers.

Biden is trying to reverse that by allowing infected foreign nationals unimpeded access across our Southern border into Texas.


2. The population of people who have immunity due to having recovered is increasing.

Only this past week did the NIH acknowledge this, while Fauci and the CDC still cling to the lie that the human immune system offers no long-lasting protection against the virus.
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: mystery-ak on March 05, 2021, 01:12:29 am
WATCH: Joy Reid Says Texas Only Wants To Open So Minorities Can “Get Back To Work, Make Them Steaks”
https://trendingpolitics.com/watch-joy-reid-says-texas-only-wants-to-open-so-minorities-can-get-back-to-work-make-them-steaks/
Title: Re: ‘It is now time to open Texas 100%:’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reverses statewide pandemic orders
Post by: txradioguy on March 05, 2021, 01:14:27 am
WATCH: Joy Reid Says Texas Only Wants To Open So Minorities Can “Get Back To Work, Make Them Steaks”
https://trendingpolitics.com/watch-joy-reid-says-texas-only-wants-to-open-so-minorities-can-get-back-to-work-make-them-steaks/

Wow Joy...racist much?