What the hell?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a reopening strategy for Texas business in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. What, then, is one of the results? A spike in COVID-19 infection throughout the state!
Texas beaches have reopened. Texas business has restarted, with limited capacity mandated by the governor. People are getting haircuts and getting their manicures, pedicures and other cosmetic enhancements.
Texans also are getting more exposed to the viral infection at an alarmingly increasing rate.
A lot of us have expressed concern about this decision to reopen the state. I had some hope that Abbott would make good on his pledge to rely on “data and the doctors” to make decisions relating to this reopening matter. Maybe he has, but the data and the docs might have misjudged the result.
As ABC News reports, the Texas infection spike hasn’t resulted in a total that rivals what has happened in New York, but clearly the infection rate has not yet “flattened out.”
This makes me ask: Should the governor re-impose the restrictions he put out when the pandemic took root in Texas and around the world?
Whatever he decides, know this: Yours truly isn’t changing a thing. We are going to keep sheltering in place.
You also may take this to the bank … if you dare venture out: This trend makes a mockery of Donald Trump’s assertion that we’ve turned the corner on the pandemic.
The disease is still winning this war against humanity.
From everything I’ve read, it’s flattened everywhere but here in the Pandhandle. Of course that’s due to increased testing and the beef packing plants. The rest of the state has shown to be staying level and even going down. Even the increase in positive results here does not mean those folks will be systematic (not sure the right word), but they count in the numbers.
Today’s numbers of the Panhandle area were much lower. That would be expected now that they’ve done the large scale testing. I believed there are still some more tests awaiting results. Again, just because they test positive for the virus does not mean they will become systematic. Of course, they could spread to someone with a lower immune system. Currently, they are counting those that test positive as an active case whether systematic or not.
I believe the majority of the state is down as well.