Posted on 09/25/2020 9:53:42 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Since May, scores of Republican lawmakers and leaders have offered suggestions to fellow Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to fully reopen the state. They have written numerous letters and made many phone calls expressing how extended executive orders requiring some businesses to remain closed are significantly hurting their constituents.
More than 65 Republican legislators sent a letter to Abbott, which still remains unanswered, asking him to simply amend an order to allow some businesses to operate. The majority say they have not received even a response.
Since March, more than 8,900 businesses have permanently closed in Texas according to a recent Yelp analysis, with another 5,300 reporting temporary closures as a direst result of the state’s shutdown orders issued by the governor. The numbers are most likely higher due to several factors, Yelp notes.
Business owners and state leaders argue most of the jobs made possible by these closed businesses are not coming back, contrary to claims Abbott made earlier this year.
More parents are withdrawing their children from public schools because of over-aggressive social distancing policies and prolonged virtual learning schemes, which they argue isn’t teaching.
In late July, state Sens. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, and Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, pointed to TMC COVID-19 data, which at the time showed that Harris County was past the July 5 peak as new hospitalizations had flat-lined....
In July, several county Republican parties voted to censure the governor over his orders.
The initial shutdown was first explained as a way to “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus and keep positive test rates below 10 percent, according to remarks the governor repeatedly made at press briefings...
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Absolutely correct! Abbot has unfortunately started smelling like Austin. Happens to a lot of people but I had hoped for more resilience.
Look at all the trolls out in force against Governor Abbott!
This report is garbage. The Texas Governor is opening the state according to plan.
https://fortworthtexas.gov/news/2020/09/COVID19-Gov-Release-Sept-17
“Even if the mask mandate were to stay in place, critics argue, if wearing masks is effective in preventing the spread of the coronavirus or any other disease, then why has the governor not fully reopened the state?”
Does Abbot know that masks are not effective with viral transmission?
Everything’s bigger in Texas - except Abbott?
Really... is that all you’ve got? A near worthless “plan” to do a little of this and that.
What about the bars... no go. What about the various school systems... masks for everyone.
The dude is totally ignoring the science and listening to moronic idiots. We should have been fully opened long ago.
I’d trade him in NY second for Noem as he’s shown his true colors for not only all Texans but the whole world to see.
What an embarrassment.
He has lost my support!
The spikes were nothing, the State had plenty of bed space to treat new cases. Abbott is just gutless.
Agreed!
Hopefully he will face a primary challange.
He is dragging his feet! The mask mandate needs to be removed and everything opened at once!
Agreed! Abbott doesn’t have a clue, yet he supported the return of football! So, reopen everything!
It doesn’t matter if he waits six months or a year to reopen the state, there will be a spike. That’s the way this virus operates.
Remember “Flatten The Curve” was just to be sure that the hospitals were not overwhelmed.
And they weren’t.
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