This is great news for my family. For us to flourish we need the opportunity to grow, multiply and evolve. The more we reproduce and evolve the stronger we will be to fight off any antibodies science tries to develop. My new stronger family members can spread from Texas to other parts of the country.
The Variant family is very appreciative to the Texans for giving us a good chance to be great again!
Good job.
Now Mississippi too!
This is awesome! They're ending the nonsense.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gov-greg-abbott-lift-texas-mask-mandate-open-state-100-n1259329
YOU GET IT.
Real-world smart people, degree or not, are all over the place politically. I'm from CLE and saw this daily--it didn't matter what school you went to--could you do the job well?
At some point you have to pull the band-aid off. The shutdowns are not sustainable long term. The profession I work in requires a lot of electronics from Asia. With our shutdown and stimulus policy the dollar has been weakening and prices on imports have been rising as a result. Individuals that want to cower in fear do not comprehend the long term consequences of these economic policies. We have traded short term benefit for long term risk, which is a bad economic policy.
joed|rt wrote:
At some point you have to pull the band-aid off. The shutdowns are not sustainable long term. The profession I work in requires a lot of electronics from Asia. With our shutdown and stimulus policy the dollar has been weakening and prices on imports have been rising as a result. Individuals that want to cower in fear do not comprehend the long term consequences of these economic policies. We have traded short term benefit for long term risk, which is a bad economic policy.
But if you pull the band aid off too early, you run the risk.
A couple more months would have made sense.
joed|rt wrote:
At some point you have to pull the band-aid off. The shutdowns are not sustainable long term. The profession I work in requires a lot of electronics from Asia. With our shutdown and stimulus policy the dollar has been weakening and prices on imports have been rising as a result. Individuals that want to cower in fear do not comprehend the long term consequences of these economic policies. We have traded short term benefit for long term risk, which is a bad economic policy.
Pull band aids off prematurely isn’t a good idea.
A couple more months would have made sense.
Wow. The fact that Texans actually approve of this clown shows that there is a distinct lack of spines in your state. This is a joke and you guys are the punchline. Just embarassing.
And of course you guys all crap on California when we're are subsidizing you heavily all the time.
Texas bros...
Will this really change much?
How's the hospital/ICU situation there?
Where I'm at currently (Missouri) peeps still get together w/o masks even w/ 'restrictions'. People wearing masks waiting in line for a restaurant - then take off the mask when they eat - pointless bros.
Youth sports are legit again - my neighbor even finally took down their '#letthemplay' sign after I pointed out the neighborhood kids had been playing outside for weeks. Kids play basketball w/ masks and they slip down their faces.
Fatties gonna fat, unhealthies gonna unhealthy, elderlies gonna elderly, anti-vaccinators gonna refuse their Gates microchip - no matter what the governor says.
If you think about it bros, COVID is just nature's way of 'thinning the herd' - both the physically/genetically weak and the mentally slow. No different from the typhoid pandemic my dad said he survived when he was a kid - btw haven't seen that b****a$$ since I was 10. We're all gonna make it brahs. Can't save the 400 lb guy from himself.
eh no wrote:
joed|rt wrote:
At some point you have to pull the band-aid off. The shutdowns are not sustainable long term. The profession I work in requires a lot of electronics from Asia. With our shutdown and stimulus policy the dollar has been weakening and prices on imports have been rising as a result. Individuals that want to cower in fear do not comprehend the long term consequences of these economic policies. We have traded short term benefit for long term risk, which is a bad economic policy.
Pull band aids off prematurely isn’t a good idea.
A couple more months would have made sense.
If they wait two months people would say it's too early and they should have waited another two months just to be safe.
Stoppit Smith wrote:
I have no respect for any of your coaches that gave you all that mindset. No, I'm not one of you. I'm not a fellow, buddy, friend nor acquaintance and I wouldn't even like most of you.
I have no respect for whatever coach made you such a little b*tch.
Keep telling us how not getting invited to post-race parties totally doesn't bother you because you "didn't even want to go."
Dork.
Strava Bro wrote:
Texas bros...
Will this really change much?
How's the hospital/ICU situation there?
Where I'm at currently (Missouri) peeps still get together w/o masks even w/ 'restrictions'. People wearing masks waiting in line for a restaurant - then take off the mask when they eat - pointless bros.
Youth sports are legit again - my neighbor even finally took down their '#letthemplay' sign after I pointed out the neighborhood kids had been playing outside for weeks. Kids play basketball w/ masks and they slip down their faces.
Fatties gonna fat, unhealthies gonna unhealthy, elderlies gonna elderly, anti-vaccinators gonna refuse their Gates microchip - no matter what the governor says.
If you think about it bros, COVID is just nature's way of 'thinning the herd' - both the physically/genetically weak and the mentally slow. No different from the typhoid pandemic my dad said he survived when he was a kid - btw haven't seen that b****a$$ since I was 10. We're all gonna make it brahs. Can't save the 400 lb guy from himself.
There is a substantial difference between reduced capacity indoor dining/outdoor dining and packing people 100% into bars and nightclubs. People forget how many big super spreader events occurred at those places in South Korea and other places last spring.
It's the large, crowded indoor gatherings that are the big risk being added here.
CarbonFiberJoe wrote:
eh no wrote:
Pull band aids off prematurely isn’t a good idea.
A couple more months would have made sense.
If they wait two months people would say it's too early and they should have waited another two months just to be safe.
Not so much concerned about what people would say but rather how many Texans have been vaccinated.
If we follow your logic, why did Abbott wait so long? He should have opened up months ago.
The Gallant Pig Man wrote:
the media is corrupt wrote:
They care nothing about kids having their childhoods stolen or small business owners losing everything they worked tirelessly for or low wage earners with no jobs and at the end of their ropes.
If Republicans hadn't pretended that the virus was fake from the very beginning, we could have been open a long time ago. Instead, more than half a million Americans have died and millions more will have lasting health issues. And you're telling the people who care that they just hate little kids and small business owners? Eat sh*t.
Joe Biden called Trump a xenophobe for restricting travel from China. Blame Biden.
texas trusts the science wrote:
https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1366846908480815106?s=20Democrats lose again!!!!
Of course he did this. Great distraction from his complete incompetence regarding the grid crisis which he helped create as the former Texas AG.
Drop Covid restrictions and life is good until the next crisis which he will mismanage and blame on some 'lefty' conspiracy and you people will continue eat it up.
GOP loves dumb people!
Wait... I thought Texans were enjoying as much freedom as Kiwis. At least that's what I read on another thread on New Zealand.
So what restrictions did Texas have if there was already as much freedom as in New Zealand? I am really confused.
Hah!
Do you really think runners are that good of people?
Many of you smoke.
Many of you smoke the Jane.
Many of you get drunk and do stupid things.
Many of you have tried PEDs.
No.
You're not a group I want to be around.
Strava Bro wrote:
Texas bros...
Will this really change much?
How's the hospital/ICU situation there?
Where I'm at currently (Missouri) peeps still get together w/o masks even w/ 'restrictions'. People wearing masks waiting in line for a restaurant - then take off the mask when they eat - pointless bros.
Youth sports are legit again - my neighbor even finally took down their '#letthemplay' sign after I pointed out the neighborhood kids had been playing outside for weeks. Kids play basketball w/ masks and they slip down their faces.
Fatties gonna fat, unhealthies gonna unhealthy, elderlies gonna elderly, anti-vaccinators gonna refuse their Gates microchip - no matter what the governor says.
If you think about it bros, COVID is just nature's way of 'thinning the herd' - both the physically/genetically weak and the mentally slow. No different from the typhoid pandemic my dad said he survived when he was a kid - btw haven't seen that b****a$$ since I was 10. We're all gonna make it brahs. Can't save the 400 lb guy from himself.
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CarbonFiberJoe wrote:
eh no wrote:
Pull band aids off prematurely isn’t a good idea.
A couple more months would have made sense.
If they wait two months people would say it's too early and they should have waited another two months just to be safe.
We've been hearing that for over a year. Remember when the shutdown was supposed to be 6 weeks and done? Here we are over a year later. 9.9 million jobs lost, currency is being devalued because we are printing federal money to keep states and individuals solvent, GDP was down in every US state between Q1 2020 and Q3 2020 except Utah (maybe others should be looking to Utah's policies as an example as they have some of the lowest death rates, lowest unemployment and have largely been able to keep their economy rolling and populace employed), etc.
https://carsey.unh.edu/COVID-19-Economic-Impact-By-StateAs much grief as people on the boards give Mormons, they have powered through this pandemic almost unfazed (see modest job gains since the pandemic was declared in Utah and Idaho, low death rates and mostly preserved economies). It's amazing what a little bit of self control can do for a large populace.
I love this move, mostly wrote:
I am a huge fan of this mass experiment on the good people of Texas and can't wait for the results. There was a general lack of any real enforcement previously so it's not going to be the sort of day and night difference in behavior that would be even more interesting, but it could still pave the way for the rest of the country to open up again, if things work out well. Fingers crossed!
My thoughts and prayers are with the good people of Texas and I hope the experimental results turn out favorably; specifically that the cases of Covid continue to decline and the number of deaths also continue to decline. Thank you for volunteering!
That is not going to happen.
Give it till around St Pattys days for all local news to start reporting a spike and hospitals at 200% capacity.
Somehow they stopped reporting about the virus around Jan 20, 2021. Before it was something they talked about 3-4 times each broadcast. I kinda don't miss it but it will happen.
Let it Rupp wrote:
The Gallant Pig Man wrote:
If Republicans hadn't pretended that the virus was fake from the very beginning, we could have been open a long time ago. Instead, more than half a million Americans have died and millions more will have lasting health issues. And you're telling the people who care that they just hate little kids and small business owners? Eat sh*t.
Joe Biden called Trump a xenophobe for restricting travel from China. Blame Biden.
Wrong, you are wrong.
Even IF that was true and your context accurate, why the fvck would Trump be restricted so easily by Bidon’s opinion? Was he really that weak as President?