{"id":42458,"date":"2020-04-27T21:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42458"},"modified":"2020-04-27T21:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T21:12:58","slug":"thanks-gov-abbott-but-no-thanks-im-staying-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42458","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Gov. Abbott, but no thanks; I’m staying home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says it’s time to reopen the state<\/a>. The stay at home order he issued has done its job by reducing the level of infection from COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Restaurants, malls, museums, libraries, retail outlets can reopen, he said today, but they have to limit it to 25 percent of capacity.<\/p>\n

Governor, you may count me as one Texan who’s going to stay away. My wife and I are going to continue doing what we’ve been doing: We’ll go out only when we must purchase an essential item; we’re going to keep wearing masks; we’re going to wipe door handles, shopping carts and our hands with sanitized wipes.<\/p>\n

I want Texas and the nation to get back to business as much as the next guy. However, I am leery of any relaxation at this moment. I keep reading about the potential for spikes in infection. I keep fearing the prospect of testing positive for the virus. I am 70 years of age; my wife is a bit younger, but she, too, is at risk. The good news is that we both enjoy good health but we want to ensure that our health status remains good.<\/p>\n

I do endorse the notion that Abbott’s decision doesn’t require<\/em> businesses to reopen, but that it gives them the permission<\/em> to do so. They shouldn’t rush to fling open their doors, even to a 25-percent capacity.<\/p>\n

With that, I just want to say “thanks, Gov. Abbott, but no thanks.” I am going to stay home and keep doing what I have been doing until we can report an even greater significant decline in the rate of infection.<\/p>\n\n

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says it’s time to reopen the state. The stay at home order he issued has done its job by reducing the level of infection from COVID-19. Restaurants, malls, museums, libraries, retail outlets can reopen, he said today, but they have to limit it to 25 percent of capacity. Governor, you may … Continue reading Thanks, Gov. Abbott, but no thanks; I’m staying home<\/span> →<\/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":[18],"tags":[9236,9257,2006,9261],"class_list":["post-42458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-greg-abbott","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42458","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=42458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42460,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42458\/revisions\/42460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}