Texas governor vows to issue an executive order to end state's lockdown

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Texas is finagling a way to ease stay-at-home restrictions and reopen businesses, with the help of an executive order that Republican Governor Greg Abbott is expected to issue in the coming week.

In a press conference on Friday, Abbott said the focus of the order will be "restoring livelihoods" and helping Texans re-enter the workforce. The announcements come less than two weeks after the governor told residents to stay at home for the month of April, an order that he declined to refer to as a shelter-in-place policy following a month of partial county-specific lockdowns.

Currently, 42 US states, Guam, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico are under lockdown orders, comprising 95% of America's population.

"We can and we must do this," Abbott said. "We can do both, expand and restore the livelihoods that Texans want to have by helping them return to work. One thing about Texans, they enjoy working and they want to get back into the workforce. We have to come up with strategies on how we can do this safely."

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor-vows-issue-executive-185600728.html

Abbott wants your grandparents to die for his investment portfolio.

[thucythucy]

1. This is so dangerous.

It might also backfire politically.

How many grandparents have to die before the GOP finally realizes the risk?

How many before it faces political consequences?

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R

Get gram & gramps on the altar of greed to be sacrificed, along with lots of middle-aged folks, some younger folks &, yes, even babies! 😭🤬🤬🤬

[demtenjeep]

3. pg 72 of the pdf red dawn

Wrt communitymitigation, I think weran out of timefor Seattle. Butthereare other cities and communitieswherewe
still can makea difference. I don' t understandwhy CaliforniaandNYC are notactingmoreaggressively. Timeto
focuson other parts of the countrywheremitigationmeasuresmightstillwork and where governors,mayors and
public healthofficials aremore receptiveto doingwhatworks. It feels like a replay of 1918. Somestateand local
leaderswillmakepoordecisionsand unfortunately theAmericanswho live in thosecommunitiesare goingto pay
dearlyforthe choicesbeingmadeby their leaders. Itis a shamethose lessonswere notlearned.

[dalton99a]

4. Abbott wants to show his authority over the blue urban areas

[Stallion]

5. Texas is 49th in Testing-14 Days from APEX

but 10th in diagnosed cases

[TheBlackAdder]

11. But Texas has a suspiciously low reported death rate when compared to other states.

[greenjar_01]

14. Texas's numbers are 100% horseshit

It's going to collapse into disaster down there.

[CaptYossarian]

6. Is he invested in casket makers?

[kimbutgar]

7. Iva makes got that trademark from China for coffins just in time.

[AJT]

8. Guess that's up the governor since there is no federal mandate.

It's stupid,.

[Maxheader]

9. We can and we must be stupid...

"We can and we must do this," Abbott said. "We can do both, expand and restore the livelihoods that Texans want to have by helping them return to work. One thing about Texans, they enjoy working and they want to get back into the workforce. We have to come up with strategies on how we can do this safely."

[Skittles]

10. Abbott is big Trump ass kisser

like Trump, he only cares about the GOP

[GulfCoast66]

12. Republicans are stuck between a rock and a bigger rock.

People are dying wholesale and the economy is tanked. They are, in their desperation going to live with the deaths in the vain hope they can get the economy going. Too stupid to realize it’s not gonna happen. People are not going to pretend nothing is wrong because some dude tells them so. But enough people will try to act normal to skyrocket the deaths. Further hurting the economy.

Then they will get more desperate.

[greenjar_01]

13. 't's yer funeral

[ooky]

15. All this Republican big talk about "re-opening". Anyone stupid enough to do it

is going to experience an explosion of infections and then have to shut it all right back down again with blood on their hands and egg on their face.