D&D Coronavirus thread

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ab...shment-for-violating-coronavirus-restrictions

"Throwing Texans in jail who have had their businesses shut down through no fault of their own is nonsensical, and I will not allow it to happen,” Abbott said in a statement. “That is why I am modifying my executive orders to ensure confinement is not a punishment for violating an order. This order is retroactive to April 2nd, supersedes local orders and if correctly applied should free Shelley Luther."

"As a mother, Ms. Luther wanted to feed her children," Paxton said in a letter to the judge asking him to free her. "As a small business owner, she wanted to help her employees feed their children. Needless to say, these are laudable goals that warrant the exercise of enforcement discretion."

On Thursday, Paxton praised the governor for ensuring that people would not be jailed for flouting the state's coronavirus restrictions.

"I applaud Gov. Abbott’s decision to ensure that penalties for violating public health orders are reasonable and not excessive. All Texans are trying to get through this crisis together and no one should be put in jail unnecessarily," he said.

Abbott said it was not just that as the state was reducing its prison populations because of the coronavirus that it was also throwing entrepreneurs in jail.

"It may also ensure that other Texans like Ana Isabel Castro-Garcia and Brenda Stephanie Mata who were arrested in Laredo, should not be subject to confinement," Abbott said of the order. "As some county judges advocate for releasing hardened criminals from jail to prevent the spread of COVID-19, it is absurd to have these business owners take their place.”

On Thursday night, Abbott said on Fox News' "Hannity" that citizens' liberty needed to be balanced with the need to slow the coronavirus' spread.

"There is [a balance that needs to be struck], Sean, and that is why we are now in Texas opening up things like hair salons and barbershops," Abbott told host Sean Hannity. "But Sean, you need to know this: The problem that we're dealing with is far worse than what you've articulated in Dallas County."

 

Abbott, who has already proven himself to be an idiot, decided to double down.

 

LTC facilities generally do not have ventilators.

 

Abbott is now slamming Houston and Dallas for doling out punishments to people...yet, in his own executive orders:

In most of his executive orders issued during the outbreak, Abbott has included a line stating: “failure to comply with any executive order issued during the COVD-19 disaster is an offense punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000, confinement in jail for a term not to exceed 180 days, or both fine and confinement.” https://www.houstonchronicle.com/po...t-slams-Houston-over-coronavirus-15253937.php
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Abbott is removing the punishment part of his executive order now, but it's kind of funny that he's railing against the punishments now, when his own orders actually permitted it. Just following his leader, I guess...wish we didn't have a puppet in that office.

 

Republican leaders afraid of responsibility.

Just blame the cluster**** on Democrats who aren't in power. Works everytime! That's how I got in in the first place!

 

White House aide tests positive for virus ahead of Pence trip

JENNIFER JACOBS | BLOOMBERG | 10 minutes ago.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...ts-positive-virus-ahead-pence-trip/111678544/

 

COVID HOTSPOT IDENTIFIED!

Wear your mask. Wash your hands. Stay away from non-mask wearers!

 

Coronavirus Found In Men's Semen

Explains everything.

 

A new report shows that while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the United States’ first case of the virus on Jan. 21, health officials have found the virus began to spread in Florida in December. This means that although the U.S. confirmed its first infection—a man who returned from China—in late January, the pandemic had spread to thousands in the U.S. weeks before that.

 

Could make testing more interesting