{"id":43319,"date":"2020-06-26T00:17:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43319"},"modified":"2020-06-26T00:17:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:17:46","slug":"abbott-calls-a-pause-on-reopening-gosh-whoda-thunk-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43319","title":{"rendered":"Abbott calls a ‘pause’ on reopening … gosh, who’da thunk it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Who could have thought this might happen?<\/p>\n

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott became arguably too anxious to reopen the state that had been shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic. He did it anyway.<\/p>\n

Then the state undergoes a serious spike in sickness and hospitalization from the worldwide pandemic. What, then, does the governor do? He dials back the reopening bit, only but in several of the state\u2019s most populous counties. Abbott announced a rolling back of reopening in Dallas, Harris, Bexar and Travis counties. He called it a “pause.”<\/p>\n

Folks in those counties have to wear masks when they venture into public places; they can\u2019t crowd around each other; they must maintain social distancing; businesses that had expanded their capacity to 75 percent now might have to scale it back \u2026 significantly!<\/p>\n

This is what happens, I venture to speculate, when we get too far ahead ourselves, trying to outrun a pandemic that takes no prisoners.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Abbott is beginning to sound like someone who understands the nature of the \u201cenemy\u201d we are fighting. He has hung alarming labels on the increase in COVID infection throughout Texas, calling it \u201cunacceptable,\u201d \u201crampant\u201d and \u201cmassive.\u201d<\/p>\n

I get all of this. Health concerns should \u2013 pardon the intentional<\/em> pun \u2013 trump<\/em> economic concerns. Let\u2019s be real. An economy cannot recover if the people who make it run are confined to hospital beds \u2026 or they are no longer among us.<\/p>\n\n

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Who could have thought this might happen? Texas Gov. Greg Abbott became arguably too anxious to reopen the state that had been shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic. He did it anyway. Then the state undergoes a serious spike in sickness and hospitalization from the worldwide pandemic. What, then, does the governor do? He dials … Continue reading Abbott calls a ‘pause’ on reopening … gosh, who’da thunk it?<\/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":[11,18],"tags":[9236,9423,2006,9261],"class_list":["post-43319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-state-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid","tag-greg-abbott","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43319","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=43319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43322,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43319\/revisions\/43322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}