{"id":42743,"date":"2020-05-16T17:52:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T17:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42743"},"modified":"2020-05-16T17:52:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T17:52:38","slug":"time-to-re-impose-restrictions-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42743","title":{"rendered":"Time to re-impose restrictions in Texas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=shelterinplace%20%23pandemic%20%23GregAbbott%20%23corinavirus%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pandemic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42744\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pandemic-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pandemic-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pandemic-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pandemic.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What the hell?<\/p>\n<p>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?\u00a0<em>A spike in COVID-19 infection throughout the state!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Texans also are getting more exposed to the viral infection at an alarmingly increasing rate.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;data and the doctors&#8221; to make decisions relating to this reopening matter. Maybe he has, but the <em>data and the docs<\/em> might have misjudged the result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/texas-cases-of-covid-19-increasing-by-thousands-since-reopening\/ar-BB14b61B?li=BBnb7Kz\">As ABC News reports<\/a>, the Texas infection spike hasn&#8217;t resulted in a total that rivals what has happened in New York, but clearly the infection rate has not yet &#8220;flattened out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever he decides, know this: Yours truly isn&#8217;t changing a thing. We are going to keep sheltering in place.<\/p>\n<p>You also may take this to the bank \u2026 if you dare venture out: This trend makes a mockery of Donald Trump&#8217;s assertion that we&#8217;ve turned the corner on the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The disease is still winning this war against humanity.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=shelterinplace%20%23pandemic%20%23GregAbbott%20%23corinavirus%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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?\u00a0A 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to re-impose restrictions in Texas?<\/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":[18],"tags":[9236,9257,2006,9261],"class_list":["post-42743","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\/42743","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=42743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42745,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42743\/revisions\/42745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}