Texas governor rescinds mask mandate and all COVID restrictions

[Muse]

DeSantis is not dumb, he's Harvard and Yale educated. He's just a sociopath.

A sociopath is a person who is "not all there," as they say. That can be construed as dumb. His aspect is rather dark and menacing.

Josh Hawley's another creature from the dark side... Stanford "educated." I have seen several people/institutions in the news with a Stanford background that are ample proof that being associated with that school is no proof of wisdom, capability, good intentions. I imagine that's true for virtually any educational institution you can name.

 

[kage69]

Great to see compunutbag suddenly become a believer in personal liberty and freedom! When does he and the rest of the moron brigade connect some dots and apply this to women?

Protip for idiots: do not try and pretend pregnancy and a preventable, highly contagious disease are the same threat to the lives of others.

 

[Muse]

There should only be one question they get asked and that is how many people have you killed today.

I agree with the notion that the blank check to Texans to ignore the previous mask and indoor activities mandates is blatant deflection from the monumental scandal that is the deadly crippling power failure we have seen there in recent weeks.

 

[kage69]

His signature is just to troll the libs.

And fails like every one of his posts.

He really needs to stick to his glory hole duties. An idiot punching himself in the face repeatedly tends to produce amusement and sometimes pity, not much else. He's back so maybe he forgot.

 

[K1052]

Texas: We are a land of freedom that doesn't tell business what to do or people how to live their lives.

Me: Ok why can't I buy liquor on a Sunday?

Texas: Um...reasons.

Me: Why can't women buy birth control without a script?

Texas: ....

Me: Why is marijuana still illegal?

Texas: ....look we both know the deal here and it's that we're full of shit but would rather not admit it.

 

[kage69]

Texas: We are a land of freedom that doesn't tell business what to do or people how to live their lives.

Me: Ok why can't I buy liquor on a Sunday?

Texas: Um...reasons.

Me: Why can't women buy birth control without a script?

Texas: ....

Me: Why is marijuana still illegal?

Texas: ....look we both know the deal here and it's that we're full of shit but would rather not admit it.

Exactly.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Texas: We are a land of freedom that doesn't tell business what to do or people how to live their lives.

Me: Ok why can't I buy liquor on a Sunday?

Texas: Um...reasons.

Me: Why can't women buy birth control without a script?

Texas: ....

Me: Why is marijuana still illegal?

Texas: ....look we both know the deal here and it's that we're full of shit but would rather not admit it.

Nailed it, Texas: You're free to conform to our version of freedom, it requires virtue signaling and purity tests on a regular basis.

 

[SMOGZINN]

This is not ignorance on Abbots part. This is evil. This is intentional genocide.
Abbot, and the Texas Republicans, are counting on the fact that white conservative areas have far outpaced the rest of the State in vaccinations.
These orders are an attempt at reducing the number of minority voters in a state that they are in danger of losing.

In February, as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showed that Black, Latino and Native Americans were at least twice as likely as white people to die of COVID-19, it was white Americans who secured most vaccine doses. In the 23 states that try to track the race or ethnicity of those vaccinated, most reported white people were getting vaccinated at disproportionately high rates, according to a February analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Dallas County, which includes the city by the same name and other municipalities, is a case in point. Non-Hispanic white residents make up 28% of the population but were nearly 63% of those registered to receive vaccinations as of Jan. 24, about three weeks after online-only registration had opened to people ages 65 and up.

But when local elected officials tried to correct the situation—by prioritizing people in neighborhoods like Ideal, where the need was greatest—the state beat back their efforts, and Dallas County returned to age-based vaccine targeting. That delivered another advantage to white Americans, who tend to live longest.

When taken with the states work and reducing the amount of vaccines available to minority communities it starts to paint a pretty clear picture.
Texas is diverting thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses away from Dallas County

Abbot sees this as just another form of voter suppression.

 

[allisolm]

''I like the idea of isolating the vulnerable and letting everyone else go about their lives."


Everyone, please forgive me for the comparison I'm about to make. My mind does not usually go there but, when I read "isolating the vulnerable", I thought the sick, elderly, mentally challenged, physically challenged, mentally unstable, and the children. This seemed pretty darn close to an earlier program that called for the removal from society of the sick, elderly, mentally challenged, physically infirm, emotionally distraught, and disabled. Unfortunately, the removal from society called for then was more permanent than the isolation proposed by compuwiz1. T4 Program

If all of the vulnerable are isolated and the normals are allowed to run around freely infecting each other, when do the vulnerable get to come out of isolation? Never?

 

[Paratus]

I'm curious what part of Governor Abbott's "decision" you're going to ignore? Is there some specific activity that you've been doing that his latest EO forbids you from doing and it should be ignored?

Abotts statement:
“With the medical advancements of vaccines and antibody therapeutic drugs, Texas now has the tools to protect Texans from the virus,” said Governor Abbott. "We must now do more to restore livelihoods and normalcy for Texans by opening Texas 100 percent. Make no mistake, COVID-19 has not disappeared, but it is clear from the recoveries, vaccinations, reduced hospitalizations, and safe practices that Texans are using that state mandates are no longer needed.”

The one where he’s says state mandates are no longer needed. So I’ll will be following the previous state mandate until it is actually no longer required.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

A sociopath is a person who is "not all there," as they say. That can be construed as dumb. His aspect is rather dark and menacing.

Josh Hawley's another creature from the dark side... Stanford "educated." I have seen several people/institutions in the news with a Stanford background that are ample proof that being associated with that school is no proof of wisdom, capability, good intentions. I imagine that's true for virtually any educational institution you can name.

Disagree, sociopath is someone who is fully conscious what he does is evil and just don't give a shit. And you can't get a degree from Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc without being a very educated and intelligent person. You're conflicting intelligence with wisdom and morality. Hawley, DeSantis, McConell, Cruz, etc they're all there, they're just evil pieces of shit.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Abotts statement:
“With the medical advancements of vaccines and antibody therapeutic drugs, Texas now has the tools to protect Texans from the virus,” said Governor Abbott. "We must now do more to restore livelihoods and normalcy for Texans by opening Texas 100 percent. Make no mistake, COVID-19 has not disappeared, but it is clear from the recoveries, vaccinations, reduced hospitalizations, and safe practices that Texans are using that state mandates are no longer needed.”

The one where he’s says state mandates are no longer needed. So I’ll will be following the previous state mandate until it is actually no longer required.

Haha those $100k plus antibody therapeutics?
I can tell he is on State healthcare.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Don't associate acceptance to a campus with intelligence. There's this thing called 'legacy admissions,' also 'cash.' Dubya was Yale educated, never really accumulating much in his head other than baseball stats. Trump went to a renowned school and we all know how that turned out. Jared got accepted to Harvard only after his dad shelled out a $2.5million donation. Jared is a C student at best.

For several years I've seen nothing from DeSantis to indicate he has an IQ greater than his waist size. He has the temperament of small child, the mental capacity of one whose mother drank while pregnant. Anyone got something showing him to be some kind of Mensa member in real life, cough up that link please.

They still graduated from these places and are/were intelligent people who play dumb because it plays well with their base. Trump might actually be dumb now, he looks like he has declined a lot mentally in old age. But the rest are intelligent.

 

[pauldun170]

In his defence, at least he's not blaming jews and gypsies like they used to in Europe

Texas Gov. Abbott blames Covid spread on immigrants, criticizes Biden's 'Neanderthal' comment

Abbott's comments come after his widely criticized decision Tuesday to rescind most of the state's Covid-19 restrictions, including a statewide mask mandate.

www.cnbc.com

 

[MrSquished]

Disagree, sociopath is someone who is fully conscious what he does is evil and just don't give a shit. And you can't get a degree from Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc without being a very educated and intelligent person. You're conflicting intelligence with wisdom and morality. Hawley, DeSantis, McConell, Cruz, etc they're all there, they're just evil pieces of shit.

Agreed. A huge chunk of the Trump GOP are just evil bad hombres - these are the people that are most capable of leading and taking part in fascist, stalinist, maoist, etc
.. type movements.

 

[ch33zw1z]

This is not ignorance on Abbots part. This is evil. This is intentional genocide.
Abbot, and the Texas Republicans, are counting on the fact that white conservative areas have far outpaced the rest of the State in vaccinations.
These orders are an attempt at reducing the number of minority voters in a state that they are in danger of losing.



When taken with the states work and reducing the amount of vaccines available to minority communities it starts to paint a pretty clear picture.
Texas is diverting thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses away from Dallas County

Abbot sees this as just another form of voter suppression.

That's a pretty grimm piece of news.

 

[hal2kilo]

A sociopath is a person who is "not all there," as they say. That can be construed as dumb. His aspect is rather dark and menacing.

Josh Hawley's another creature from the dark side... Stanford "educated." I have seen several people/institutions in the news with a Stanford background that are ample proof that being associated with that school is no proof of wisdom, capability, good intentions. I imagine that's true for virtually any educational institution you can name.

Seems those damn liberal colleges aren't doing their job.

 

[Zorba]

Ah, freedom of choice without government intervention. The bright side here is people have a choice. You can go out, as you want, but you assume all inherent risks. Those who are concerned about it can still mask up, or avoid the scene if they want. Again, it's about freedom of choice....something that is important to people. Don't like it? Stay home or mask up. Nobody telling you what you have to do.

Your freedom of choice shouldn't give you the right to kill other people. Masks protect others far more than the wearer. If you'd read anything based on science instead of feels in the last 11 months you'd know that.

 

[Muse]

Seems those damn liberal colleges aren't doing their job.

No institution can force you to open your mind.

 

[sandorski]

Your freedom of choice shouldn't give you the right to kill other people. Masks protect others far more than the wearer. If you'd read anything based on science instead of feels in the last 11 months you'd know that.

I'll spin in the middle of a Mall firing a full Mag from my AR15 if I want to! You friggin Commie!!....

 

[Zorba]

What a load of crap. Putting on a god damn mask is such a small request to look out for everyone but all of these right wingers think the world revolves around them and they have no responsibility to anyone else. Masking up doesn't protect an individual much, it protects everyone else from the masked individual since it catches droplets right at the source, namely the masked person's mouth. Fucking conservatives have worms in their brains when they can't understand this one simple thing. I don't put on a fucking mask to protect myself, I put on a mask to protect you if I see you and I'm an asymptomatic carrier. You're such a chickenshit if you won't reciprocate.

Don't worry they don't care if the are asymptomatic, people like him would go out maskless even if they knew they were positive.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

That's a pretty grimm piece of news.

This is dog bites man level of expected news from Texas.

 

[MtnMan]

I'm curious what part of Governor Abbott's "decision" you're going to ignore? Is there some specific activity that you've been doing that his latest EO forbids you from doing and it should be ignored?

Show us on the doll where Dr. Seuss touched you.

 

[HomerJS]

Texas: We are a land of freedom that doesn't tell business what to do or people how to live their lives.

Me: Ok why can't I buy liquor on a Sunday?

Texas: Um...reasons.

Me: Why can't women buy birth control without a script?

Texas: ....

Me: Why is marijuana still illegal?

Texas: ....look we both know the deal here and it's that we're full of shit but would rather not admit it.

Reposting because this is the most observant intelligent characterization of Texas I've seen in a long while. This would apply to a lot of conservative red states.

Can I have permission to steal?

 

[Zorba]

Like I said, people can either go out or stay the fuck home, but a year + is enough! I can see how communism could happen in this country. Some of you guys don't mind being led by the nose and being ordered what to do. I'm not cut from that cloth. I like the idea of isolating the vulnerable and letting everyone else go about their lives.
Next Alabama...

Impossible to isolate the vulnerable, especially in the US.

Also you are a fucking follower you are following your mindless drone friends and Trump. Wearing a mask to protect others isn't that fucking hard.

Do you were pants in public? Why? Not wearing pants doesn't hurt anyone, yet you do it any ways because you're told to.