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Texas lifts statewide mask mandate and occupancy restrictions

Texas lifts statewide COVID-19 mask mandate and occupancy restrictions
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Texans awoke on Wednesday with a statewide mask mandate and occupancy restrictions in businesses lifted, a move some heralded as freedom and others as foolishness.
On paper, Texas’ rollback of coronavirus mitigation efforts is the most sweeping seen in the United States, along with a similar measure in Mississippi. In practice, vast swaths of Texas have rarely enforced mask or occupancy mandates in the past year, anyway.

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Dallas Musicians Are Still Opting for Drive-In Concerts, Find Maskless Crowds 'Unsafe'

Nick Wright, a psych-rock artist in the band Caved Mountains, says it’s not the right time.
“We would love to do it. There’s a lot of excitement to go play shows, but it’s not the right thing to do,” Wright says. “Right now we’re focused on health and making sure people don’t get sick. We’re practicing here at my house. We’re not going into a jam space.”
Wright and the Caved Mountains worry that practicing in a space where other bands have also recently practiced could put them at risk of catching COVID. Since Grail Fest (a live-music listening and record-digging event that Wright had in the works since 2019) was canceled when the pandemic hit in 2020, the band has not done any live shows and isn’t planning any until it’s safe.

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Dallas Music Venues Say They're Listening to the CDC, Not to Gov. Abbott

Not all Texans were rejoicing at the chance to show their faces in public again after Gov. Greg Abbott announced last week that businesses won't be required to enforce face masking or limit their capacity come March 2. Abbott’s announcement set Twitter ablaze with backlash, including the trending hashtag RIPTexas, while President Biden accused Abbott (and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, who made a similar call) of “Neanderthal thinking.”
One of the most widespread bits of criticism over Abbott’s decision was that while businesses may still require patrons to wear masks the burden to reinforce COVID safety policies falls on employees, making them subject to harassment from anti-maskers, a recurring trend in 2020 when private businesses implemented mask requirements before any official mandates were in place.

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Greg Gutfeld Blasts Democrats, Media Over Texas Reopening, and He Nails the Big Issue

Those yelling the loudest have the least to lose.

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Reactions Pour In After Abbott Lifts Mask Rule

“From leaving Texans to literally freeze to death to letting a deadly virus have an open season on our residents, Governor Abbott has proven many times over that he neither understands the struggles of everyday Texans, nor does he care about doing his basic duty to protect them,” Hinojosa wrote.
“This will kill Texans,” he said.
Hinojosa’s Democratic ally Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo also pointed to last month’s winter storm in her response to Tuesday’s news, and warned that Abbott may be trying to distract Texans from our state government’s failures during that disaster. “At best,” she wrote, “today’s decision is wishful thinking. At worst, it is a cynical attempt to distract Texans from the failures of state oversight of our power grid.”

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Texas Will Allow Full Capacity Concerts, Lifts Mask Mandate

The mandate goes into effect on Wednesday, March 10.

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AOC on Texas Reopening: 'This Endangers the Entire Country and Beyond'

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Coronavirus Texas: State's Democratic party says Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to reopen the state will lead to faster COVID-19 spread

The move is something Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa says is 'extraordinarily dangerous.'
While Abbott acknowledged the virus isn't going away, he insisted the state is far better equipped to fight COVID-19 than a year ago thanks to vaccines and millions of Texans already adhering to best practices.
In a letter responding to Abbott's latest statement, Hinojosa adds that only 6.5% of the state's population has been vaccinated and that opening the state prematurely will only lead to a faster spread of COVID-19.
Hinojosas' letter read as follows:
"What Abbott is doing is extraordinarily dangerous. He is the worst Governor in modern Texas history. This will kill Texans. Our country's infectious disease specialists have warned that we should not put our guard down even as we make progress towards vaccinations. Abbott doesn't care.

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