Texas reopens to 100%, rescinds mask mandate
03-04-2021, 03:47 PM
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That is the funny fact people fail to recognize...
If anyone thinks you will be able to roll into Costco without a mask, or leave your room at the Hilton and not have a mask while on their property, you are going to be in for a shock.
Also Texas has County Judges who retain the ability to enforce mask mandates in their counties. Many counties in DFW had mask mandates before the State enacted their own.
This entire thing has nothing to do with masks/freedom/covid. This is amateur hour "sleight of hand" where the Governor is trying to take attention off of the disaster we saw with the power outages, damaged homes, unmaintained power grid etc.
I expect zero change in daily Texas life in regards to this mandate. Im glad businesses can open up and pay bills, but people who want to wear masks will still wear them and people who don't will be met with a majority of businesses and restaurant's still requiring masks to enter.
If anyone thinks you will be able to roll into Costco without a mask, or leave your room at the Hilton and not have a mask while on their property, you are going to be in for a shock.
Also Texas has County Judges who retain the ability to enforce mask mandates in their counties. Many counties in DFW had mask mandates before the State enacted their own.
This entire thing has nothing to do with masks/freedom/covid. This is amateur hour "sleight of hand" where the Governor is trying to take attention off of the disaster we saw with the power outages, damaged homes, unmaintained power grid etc.
I expect zero change in daily Texas life in regards to this mandate. Im glad businesses can open up and pay bills, but people who want to wear masks will still wear them and people who don't will be met with a majority of businesses and restaurant's still requiring masks to enter.
03-04-2021, 03:47 PM
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It’s why in the past we have always measure pandemics by years of life lost not lives lost.
Considering half of the deaths are in nursing homes, I don’t think those people are missing out on much.
However, Since you have now justified our restrictions to keep these people alive so they “don’t miss out on potential things”, what are your forcing the rest of the population to “miss out” on? We are at a year of lost life experiences for the entire population so grandma can maybe live an extra 9 months. A year of missed schooling for the poorest children. A year of lost income for families. A year of losing homes kids can grow up in. A year of increased drug and alcohol abuse. A year of increased domestic abuse. A year of increased teenage depression. A year of increased suicide. The list goes on.
I’m glad grandma got to see Johnny solo from her death bed in the nursing home though
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Considering half of the deaths are in nursing homes, I don’t think those people are missing out on much.
However, Since you have now justified our restrictions to keep these people alive so they “don’t miss out on potential things”, what are your forcing the rest of the population to “miss out” on? We are at a year of lost life experiences for the entire population so grandma can maybe live an extra 9 months. A year of missed schooling for the poorest children. A year of lost income for families. A year of losing homes kids can grow up in. A year of increased drug and alcohol abuse. A year of increased domestic abuse. A year of increased teenage depression. A year of increased suicide. The list goes on.
I’m glad grandma got to see Johnny solo from her death bed in the nursing home though
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Someone not getting along with the spouse during a pandemic has nothing to do with the pandemic. They probably shouldn’t be together to begin with. That’s not our fault. Same thing can be said about every other negative byproduct of the pandemic. If you’re jumping off the bridge or getting wasted, you’ve got other issues. You would have had a very tough time convincing people to get infected so Tim can step off the ledge.
03-04-2021, 03:57 PM
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I live in Texas (Houston Area) and NEVER wear a mask anywhere. I have never had anyone say anything to me, except this one UPS store and the Airport manager at a regional airport near me. But no one liked that guy even before COVID. Even today I saw less people wearing them than usual. Big chain stores have signs on the doors but never say anything to you. Walmart, HEB, Kroger, restaurants, ETC. I hear the Target is still kind of crazy about it, but I wouldn't know because I don't go in that worthless store much. HEB (a large Texas based grocery chain) came out today and said they will provide masks to customers who want them but will not require them. Bucees, another large Texas chain has signs all over the doors, but half the people aren't wearing them in there. A very large portion of Texans could care less about the masks...
03-04-2021, 04:16 PM
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Someone not getting along with the spouse during a pandemic has nothing to do with the pandemic. They probably shouldn’t be together to begin with. That’s not our fault. Same thing can be said about every other negative byproduct of the pandemic. If you’re jumping off the bridge or getting wasted, you’ve got other issues. You would have had a very tough time convincing people to get infected so Tim can step off the ledge.
03-04-2021, 04:20 PM
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So the manager that told you to put it on nobody likes and Target which has a strict mask policy is therefore a worthless store. There’s something wrong with them, not with you huh? Really you’ve never worn a mask throughout? Everyone is looking at you, they just won’t tell you because what can they say. They just assume you’re one of the special ones and move on.
03-04-2021, 04:37 PM
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So the manager that told you to put it on nobody likes and Target which has a strict mask policy is therefore a worthless store. There’s something wrong with them, not with you huh? Really you’ve never worn a mask throughout? Everyone is looking at you, they just won’t tell you because what can they say. They just assume you’re one of the special ones and move on.
And like I said. Nobody liked that guy before. Even other property owners on the field. I heard a pretty funny story though. Some 75-80 year old man was in the FBO reading his ipad when FBO Manager "Karen" came in there and told him to put on a mask. The old man just ignored him, then he said if he didn't put on a mask he would need to leave and if he didn't leave that he would call the cops. The old man looked at him and said go ahead and call the cops and while you are waiting for them to get here, you can go eat a big bag of D*&KS. He stormed off and the cops never showed up. My biggest regret during this whole thing is that I didn't get to see that interaction...The front desk girls said it was the funniest thing they had seen in a while...
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03-04-2021, 05:34 PM
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A few interesting quotes and ideas from an article titled: Solzhenitsyn & the engine of history. (On Solzhenitsyn’s World War I novels, and the start of the Russian revolution)
- It is a conceit of the modern world that history is governed by reason.
- "For a long time now it has been dangerous to stand in the way of revolution, and risk-free to assist it. Those who have renounced all traditional Russian values, the revolutionary horde, the locusts from the abyss, vilify and blaspheme and no one dares challenge them. A left-wing newspaper can print the most subversive of articles, a left-wing speaker can deliver the most incendiary of speeches—but just try pointing out the dangers of such utterances and the whole leftist camp will raise a howl of denunciation." Solzhenitsyn
- Tyranny is inseparable from the mob.
- One of Solzhenitsyn’s characters: Idolized children despise their parents, and when they get a bit older they bully their countrymen. Tribes with an ancestor cult have endured for centuries. No tribe would survive long with a youth cult.
- In his first book, published in 1957, titled A World Restored, the young Henry Kissinger wrote that “the most fundamental problem of politics . . . is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness.” It is self-righteousness that lies at the heart of most tyrannies: the belief that only you and your side are moral and on the right side of history, making your opponents immoral, and therefore not only wrong but illegitimate.
03-04-2021, 05:47 PM
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It’s why in the past we have always measure pandemics by years of life lost not lives lost.
Considering half of the deaths are in nursing homes, I don’t think those people are missing out on much.
However, Since you have now justified our restrictions to keep these people alive so they “don’t miss out on potential things”, what are your forcing the rest of the population to “miss out” on? We are at a year of lost life experiences for the entire population so grandma can maybe live an extra 9 months. A year of missed schooling for the poorest children. A year of lost income for families. A year of losing homes kids can grow up in. A year of increased drug and alcohol abuse. A year of increased domestic abuse. A year of increased teenage depression. A year of increased suicide. The list goes on.
I’m glad grandma got to see Johnny solo from her death bed in the nursing home though
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Considering half of the deaths are in nursing homes, I don’t think those people are missing out on much.
However, Since you have now justified our restrictions to keep these people alive so they “don’t miss out on potential things”, what are your forcing the rest of the population to “miss out” on? We are at a year of lost life experiences for the entire population so grandma can maybe live an extra 9 months. A year of missed schooling for the poorest children. A year of lost income for families. A year of losing homes kids can grow up in. A year of increased drug and alcohol abuse. A year of increased domestic abuse. A year of increased teenage depression. A year of increased suicide. The list goes on.
I’m glad grandma got to see Johnny solo from her death bed in the nursing home though
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Excellent post.
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03-04-2021, 06:41 PM
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