Ironically, the super cold weather for 2weeks probably had a great effect in reducing transmission, and if we had kept vigilant for 2 weeks, I think it would have really stunted the transmission rate.
This is like picking off a scab before it’s ready, and you’re just gonna bleed and make a new one.
Now, let’s take off these silly masks and get back to work!
Hey-- who wants to see a movie in a real movie theatre? You can now!
Concerts? Sure! Church choir? (Well, you should have been doing that anyway!)
But the point is: Texas issusceptibleopen! Enjoy it! while you can…
Party like it’s 1346 or 1665!
I think you could say this about all the states. I have definitely seen this in places where I’ve lived (NY, PA and MD*)
And while it may be more rural vs urban, it has probably more to do with exposure to diverse groups of people, which makes it harder to let your confederate freak flag fly.
*while hiking part of the Appalachian Trail in MD I once came across a civil war battlefield memorial. Away from the memorial, planted by the side of the road so it could be seen, was a tiny store-bought confederate flag. There was no one around so I had no compunction swiping it and taking it back to my campsite. And to quote Ray Bradbury, “It was a pleasure to burn.”
Although there is no longer a statewide mask order, H-E-B believes it is important that masks be worn in public spaces until more Texans and our Partners have access to the COVID-19 vaccine. As an essential service provider during the pandemic, H-E-B is focused on the health and safety of our Partners and customers. H-E-B will still require all our Partners and vendors to wear masks while at work, and we urge all customers to please wear a mask when in our stores.
That’s a strange headline for what is HEB saying “we’re not changing our rules, please wear a mask.”
Same for me here in Lubbock. We ain’t anywhere close to getting back to “normal”. I’ll take cues from science instead of politics.
I was sorta joking, but not totally. Texans are mean. You know why there aren’t many civil rights stories from Texas? Because we didn’t terrorize people, we just killed them, often with help from the Texas Rangers or other government entities. Then no one talked much about it because they were often too scared. Yes, I am painting with a very broad brush, but I don’t have time to write the “real” Texas history book. Someone probably already has.
So if you meet a Texan, be careful. We love freedom so much, we will have an unreliable electric grid and prefer to die of COVID than take reasonable precautions.
Because that history has been purposefully ignored and white washed…
They “just killed” people all over the country, yet for the entire time that that was happening, people were opposing it, and fighting for change.
By what tortured logic is “hundreds of documented lynchings” (among other acts of violence and oppression) not a form of terrorism?
Thanks for the warning. Noted and applied.
Sorry, who were you killing and scaring-though-apparently-not-terrorizing? Was it not other Texans? Are you saying nearly all the good people in Texas got wiped out, or might there be others there who could still use help against these kinds of things?
When you write off everyone from a region for being oppressive, you’re usually writing off the oppressed right alongside the oppressors. And I get you were sort of joking, but that sort of thing is something to seriously watch out for, even in jokes.
My point, in part, is that Texas was, and still is, full of mean people who act nice to your face, but aren’t, especially if you are not white and/or poor. The history of non-white Texans has been brutally suppressed and so have the people. We live in a dystopian Trump-land. On one hand we have been gerrymandered into a republican dominated government, but on the other, way too many Texans are fine with the current state of affairs. Enormous efforts by incredibly hard-working people has tried to break the republican grip on Texas, and it has failed time and again because Texans are encouraged by our boorish behavior instead of being horrified by it.
Wasn’t that a Gidget movie?
So, like literally anywhere else in the world, then?
Same for the history of the US.
they said the same shit about GA and yet…
Frankie and Annette
previously people were required by state law to wear a mask while shopping, now they are not. heb has never themselves required it, and they still aren’t going to.
“urge” is “please it’d be nice” not, “you must”. and there’s a huge practical difference for employees.
I wonder how many civil rights movements would have gone nowhere if the people working hard to change the status quo had given up after the first or second or umpteenth try.
My guess is “all of them.”
You nailed it.
And yeah, we are working the problem.
… and Dan Rather!
