{"id":46820,"date":"2021-03-02T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46820"},"modified":"2021-03-02T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:18:21","slug":"abbott-invites-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46820","title":{"rendered":"Abbott invites danger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%40GregAbbott_TX%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Government-Pandemic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43195\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Government-Pandemic-300x195.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Government-Pandemic-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Government-Pandemic-1024x667.png 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Government-Pandemic-768x500.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Government-Pandemic.png 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, I listened to most of Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s talk at the Lubbock restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas governor has rescinded a statewide mask mandate and told all business owners who cater to all clientele that they are now free to open &#8220;100 percent,&#8221; despite the presence of COVID-19 virus that is still infecting Texans and other Americans.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided to ignore Abbott&#8217;s recommendation. I am going instead to heed the call of President Biden who is asking us to wear masks at least for the first 100 days of his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is making the more prudent decision. As for the business reopening, most of &#8217;em will have to make that trip back without me, and likely without my bride as well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m staying the course in mitigating the effects of the killer virus. It could have claimed a member of my immediate family and the memory of that frightening experience is too damn fresh in my mind to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%40GregAbbott_TX%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com OK, I listened to most of Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s talk at the Lubbock restaurant. The Texas governor has rescinded a statewide mask mandate and told all business owners who cater to all clientele that they are now free to open &#8220;100 percent,&#8221; despite the presence of COVID-19 virus that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abbott invites danger<\/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":[11,8386,18],"tags":[9423,2006,9455,9261],"class_list":["post-46820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-science-news","category-state-news","tag-covid","tag-greg-abbott","tag-mask-mandate","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46820","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=46820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46821,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46820\/revisions\/46821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}