Mayor Turner Recommends Two-Week Houston Lockdown to Fight COVID-19

[TexasTowelie]

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner believes it’s time for his city to pump the brakes hard on business as usual and go back to stay-at-home conditions in order to take the fight to COVID-19.

On Saturday, Turner proposed that Houston go back into lockdown for two weeks to try and blunt the startling spread of the coronavirus in the area, despite not being able to mandate that type of shutdown himself due Gov. Abbott’s statewide reopening rules.

Speaking to the media at a city-sponsored food and face mask distribution event, Turner said that he believed Texas and Houston had “opened too quickly, too soon” based on Abbott’s plan, and that a temporary, targeted shutdown would make it more likely that it would be safe to reopen local schools in the weeks ahead. He also said he thinks that Abbott’s statewide mask order won’t be enough to slow down COVID-19 as much as it needs to be given the massive rate at which the virus has been spreading throughout Houston.

“We have to recognize the fact that not everybody is going to put on this mask, let’s just be real, even with the requirement. Knowing all of that and knowing what works, you’ve got to recalibrate,” Turner said.

Read more: https://www.houstonpress.com/news/turner-recommends-two-week-houston-shutdown-11482080

[Sanity Claws]

1. 2 weeks won't do the trick

It took about 2 months for NYC to get COVID under control after the mask mandate.
Then it has been a gradual reopening and still not assurance that schools will reopen on time. And it is now 4 months since we recognized the pandemic problem here.

[duforsure]

2. I agree, and Abbott sees his poll numbers tanking now , so expect him now

Soon to be forced into closing down everything , but he'll never win another election again in Texas. Abbott , trump, and republicans are in deep trouble in Texas now. Trying now to force schools to reopen is turning Texas blue.