{"id":42197,"date":"2020-04-12T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42197"},"modified":"2020-04-12T16:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T16:48:43","slug":"go-slow-on-relaxing-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42197","title":{"rendered":"Go slowly on relaxing restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23GregAbbott%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23socialdistancing%20%23newnormal&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gregabbott_leadart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27810\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gregabbott_leadart-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gregabbott_leadart-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gregabbott_leadart-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gregabbott_leadart-1024x686.png 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gregabbott_leadart.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reportedly is planning to issue an executive order this week that sets in motion a relaxation of the restrictions enacted to fight to coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to offer this bit of advice: Go slow on returning to what we call &#8220;normal&#8221; activity.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott&#8217;s emergency response team tells us that social distancing is doing its job, that the infection rate is stabilizing if not declining. Indeed, we&#8217;re practicing it in our household, as are our sons. My wife and I haven&#8217;t socialized with anyone since the pandemic began creeping into our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott doesn&#8217;t seem like someone who is going to rush to return to normal activity. He was a bit slow to issue the stay at home order, although he didn&#8217;t call it that. Whatever. We&#8217;re staying at home and that&#8217;s worked well for us. We venture out only to buy <em>food<\/em> at the grocery store or to purchase <em>weed killer<\/em> at the garden shop.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton has shut down dining in at restaurants and practically every form of service business you can name. Haircuts? Gymnasiums? Forget about it!<\/p>\n<p>I did walk into a bank the other day wearing a face mask my wife had made and joked to the teller how strange it felt to be wearing a mask while walking into a bank. She didn&#8217;t have me arrested, for which I was much obliged.<\/p>\n<p>This so-called &#8220;new normal&#8221; is beginning to feel more like just plain &#8220;normal&#8221; the longer we&#8217;re into it.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2026 whatever Abbott does later this week, I urge him to go slow in suggesting how we should behave. For that matter, all of us on the receiving end of the governor&#8217;s suggestion would do well to proceed with all due caution.<\/p>\n<p>Social distancing is working, man, but we ain&#8217;t in the clear.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23GregAbbott%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23socialdistancing%20%23newnormal&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reportedly is planning to issue an executive order this week that sets in motion a relaxation of the restrictions enacted to fight to coronavirus pandemic. Allow me to offer this bit of advice: Go slow on returning to what we call &#8220;normal&#8221; activity. Abbott&#8217;s emergency response team tells us that social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go slowly on relaxing restrictions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[9236,2006,9261,9270],"class_list":["post-42197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-greg-abbott","tag-pandemic","tag-social-distancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42199,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42197\/revisions\/42199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}