Abbott for the win - Bringing death and misery to Texas

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Aug 10, 2021.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Not content to freezing people to death last winter with a failed electrical grid -- Abbott is doing his best to kill the residents off with COVID.

    Texas Governor More Concerned With Stopping Mask Mandates Than Stopping the Virus
    Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order banning mask mandates, but doctors are sounding the alarm that hospitals in the state are filling up
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/texas-abbott-mask-mandates-1209665/



    Officials in one Texas city are literally sounding the alarm over rising Covid-19 cases in the state, as the seven-day average number of confirmed cases has steadily risen since late July and surpassed 10,000 over the weekend, according to the Department of State Health Services. But Republican Governor Greg Abbott continues to thwart local governments that want to make masks mandatory, caring more about stopping mask mandates than the virus.

    The city of Austin activated its emergency response system over the weekend to warn residents of rising cases and encourage them to mask up, get vaccinated and stay home to fight the spread of the virus. But the city can’t mandate any of those measures because of an executive order Abbott signed last month.

    Abbott’s order bans government-enforced mask or vaccine mandates. It states that “no governmental official may require any person to wear a face covering or to mandate that another person wear a face covering” and that “no governmental entity can compel any individual to received a Covid-19 vaccine administered under an emergency use authorization.” Some facilities, such as hospitals, state prisons and local jails, however, were granted an exception. Schools were not.

    Instead, the Texas Education Agency backed up Abbott’s order, stating that school districts cannot mandate masks but students may choose to wear them. The agency also said schools are not required to perform contact tracing or inform parents of a positive Covid-19 case.

    Meanwhile, hospitals are overwhelmed with rising cases. “The situation is critical,” Dr. Desmar Walkes of the Austin-Travis County Health Authority said in a statement. “Our hospitals are severely stressed and there is little we can do to alleviate their burden with the surging cases. The public has to act now and help our we will face a catastrophe in our community that could have been avoided.”



    Walkes added that there is “extremely limited” availability of hospital beds not only for patients with coronavirus but also for “anyone who may need treatment.”

    That is the case in many areas of the state, including in Houston as well as Dallas where one hospital’s ICU occupancy has reached 96 percent. “Why is that important?” Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council President and CEO Stephen Love told NBC DFW. “Suppose you’re on I-30 and you’re in a car wreck and you really need a trauma surgeon and you need an ICU bed. We don’t want to reach a point where we run out of ICU beds.”

    In a statement to the New York Times, an Abbott spokesperson said that the governor is forgoing mandates in favor of “personal responsibility.”

    “Governor Abbott has been clear that we must rely on personal responsibility, not government mandates,” the spokesperson said. “Every Texan has a right to choose for themselves and their children whether they will wear masks, open their businesses, or get vaccinated.”

    But some local officials are bucking Abbott’s orders. Dallas Independent School District announced Monday that students and teachers will temporarily need to mask when on campus. And the largest public school district in the state, Houston Independent School District, is planning to hold a board meeting this week to discuss implementing a mask mandate and other Covid-19 protocols.
     
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  3. What is killing Texas is, the illegal immigrants murdering people. They like to rape and murder young girls.
     
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  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Let's see what the school systems in Texas think of their governor...

    Florida, Texas schools defy governors' bans on mask mandates as COVID cases soar
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...sk-mandates-as-covid-cases-soar-idUSKBN2FB1ZS

    School districts in Florida and Texas are bucking their Republican governors’ bans on requiring masks for children and teachers as coronavirus cases soar in conservative areas with low vaccination rates.

    The Broward County school board in Florida on Tuesday became the latest major district to flout an order by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis outlawing mask requirements in that state, prompting the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden here, a Democrat, to say it was considering supporting the school districts financially if DeSantis retaliates against them by withholding funds from officials' salaries.

    The Dallas Independent School District said late Monday that it would also require masks, despite an order banning such mandates from Republican Governor Greg Abbott.

    The acts of rebellion by school officials come as these states -- along with Louisiana, Arkansas and others -- are flooded with new cases after people resisted vaccines and mask mandates. Teachers and administrators are seeking to protect students, many of whom are under 12 years old and cannot get vaccinated.

    Fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, U.S. cases and hospitalizations tmsnrt.rs/2WTOZDR have soared to six-month highs with no flattening of the curve in sight.

    Based on population, Florida, Louisiana and Arkansas are leading the nation with new cases and how many COVID patients fill their hospitals. Texas is not far behind.

    In Arkansas, where only eight intensive care beds were available for COVID patients on Monday, Republican Governor Asa Hutchison said he regrets supporting a ban on mask mandates in his state.

    In Florida, where nearly one out of every three hospital beds are occupied by a coronavirus patient, a surgeon in Orlando said hospitals in the area were “overflowing” with the unvaccinated.

    “We need a field hospital. Please help us,” Sam Atallah, a surgeon at AdventHealth wrote on Twitter on Monday. “We are in a state of emergency in Orlando.”

    In Dallas, where some staff had threatened to quit if masks were not mandated to protect children, teachers and others, school district officials said they did not believe the governor’s order should be applied to them. Schools in Austin also plan to require masks.

    “Governor Abbott’s order does not limit the district’s rights as an employer and educational institution to establish reasonable and necessary safety rules for its staff and student,” the Dallas district said on its website.

    Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, the county’s top executive, said late on Monday that he asked a district court to block Governor Greg Abbott’s July order that prevents local governments from implementing mask mandates.

    “The enemy is not each other,” Jenkins said in a statement. “The enemy is the virus, and we must all do all that we can to protect public health.”

    In San Antonio, officials also ordered masks to be worn in public schools, after a judge granted a temporary injunction to allow the mandate in a blow to Abbott.

    In Florida, where lawsuits have also been filed challenging the anti-mask order, DeSantis has threatened to withhold salaries from school district officials who flout his ban.

    The threat prompted a response from the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, which is considering reimbursing school officials who lose their pay if DeSantis follows through on his threat.

    “We’re continuing to look into what our options are to help protect and help support these teachers and administrators who are taking steps to protect the people in their communities,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Tuesday.

    DeSantis stood by his statewide order banning mask mandates on Tuesday, saying it would allow parents to decide whether to mask their children for class.

    “It’s about parental choice, not government mandate, and I think ultimately, parents will be able to exercise the choices that they deem appropriate for their kids,” DeSantis said at a briefing.

    The Republican rising star is closely tied to former President Donald Trump, and DeSantis has become a national figure for opposing pandemic restrictions, even as Florida has become a hotbed of infections and hospitalizations have hit record levels.

    DeSantis is widely seen as weighing a potential 2024 challenge for the presidency.
     
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  7. gwb-trading

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  8. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    An example on how the Cult Members are given a pass when they make up data, but - Twitter/Youtube and Facebook are "authorities on truth" when it comes to COVID (or something like that).

    Here is the Texas tribune making a complete ass of themselves with total and utter fabrication, suggesting that in the last week, 5800 children were hospitalized with COVID in Texas.



    Of course, when you check the data, you find that they used all children since Aug of 2020, one year ago.

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  10. gwb-trading

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