Texas governor lifts statewide mask mandate

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Texas Gov. Abbott issues an executive order ending the statewide mask mandate; announces that all businesses will reopen at 100% capacity starting March 10.

 

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If positives increase with increase deaths. Abort needs to resign. Have they learned anything? Texas is the perfect example of pubes and their greed. People may leave California but they aren’t leaving in a body bag like Texans will.

God help Texas. Abbott is goofy. Ignore the Pandemic, stop being careful and put yourself out there. No good can come from that. Stand fast Texans ignore him. Then elect a Governor who cares about the good people of Texas.

Governor Abbott is a reckless man. Texas is ready to vote blue!

Along with not winterising the energy grid he’s obviously in a rush to whittle down the electorate to increase his chances of staying in power.

I bet he’s already been vaccinated and is keeping that fact quiet. To hell with everyone else as long as he’s covered.

Texas Gov, Abbott proves; you can't fix stupid.

People of Texas, ignore your Governor. If you follow his advice you will place yourself and your loved ones in deadly danger. Keep you and your families safe. Wear your mask and social distance. Don’t shop in stores that allow maskless fools.

I would think it would be up to the owner of the business to decide if masks are important to protect its employees, not the Governor. If states want to open up, fine, but don’t dictate or mandate to business owners. I don’t mind wearing a mask while inside a business.

I’m sorry. As long as we have idiots like Abbott, we have to keep Cuomo in office.

I can’t wait to see the Covid case numbers take a jump about 2 weeks later in Texas.

Where did the Texas Governor Abbott go to school? Trump University?

He doesn’t give a fuck because he got vaccinated!

You know who he folks.... The next time you vote for him you're the problem....

Thank god I live in a state with a dem governor.

I know karma doesn’t have a timeline but if it could step it up in the case of Greg Abbot, it would be appreciated.

The importance to vote using your logic and common sense. Republicans are not only ruining the country but also killing Americans

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Finally I found a classification for the Body Of Republican Senators and Congressmen and QAnon. They are an example of the Star Trek Nemesis called the BORG. Half Robot / Half Human and controlled by a single entity, fully bent on dominating / destroying the human race.

Texan Governor gonna regret over victims of COVID 19 from now, the consequences is so obvious!

Can the Texas governor be sued if people get sick from covid-19 now that he ordered no mask?

GOP one step closer to irrelevance

Up to us to do the right thing...mask up, social distance, wash out hands and don’t be in crowds if you don’t have to. It’s simple

This guy doesn’t care about his people. Good luck Texans!!!

😮😮😮😡😡😡

Vote him out

its time to resign, such poor leadership on all fronts...Texans still freezing? Work on that.

2022. Texas you have the upper hand. Show G A Texas is your State and he WILL/CAN be voted out.

Here is another,,,face of a crazed incompetent “leader”. Way to common these days . morons

and on the 11th we’ll have a super spreader state. This is all a ploy to get his popularity back after a total screw up with the electric and water failures. Political

...and expects to win a 3rd term. Lol.

And Isaiah 28 keeps ticking.

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Simple answer - he was under too much heat for electric crisis so he decided it would be better for him to kill with covid19. The way Gang Of Potshead govern is create new crisis so public forgets the other crisis.

GovAbbott has blood on his hands. With this new EO he will kill more Texans. TexasDeservesBetter

$pring Break $ucker$

He's still trying to kill Texans

Meanwhile, Texas had the most COVID deaths of any state yesterday and 2nd most new positive cases.

Idiot

Imagine trading peoples’ health & lives to make a political point, or is it just an economic decision?

The cruel and stupid party

People don’t follow Gov Abbot. He is putting your life and our economy in jeopardy. Wear double mask, stay out of indoor spaces as much as possible, get vaccinated(preferably Pfizer/Moderna) as soon as it your turn.

Do you remember all of the criminal investigations they started on all the Republican Senators in the White House that Barr made them decline! Well we have a new justice department and all that crap is starting to come out under Biden and his acting attorney general!

Incite death

This is just dumb!😡

Why now! So close to immunity!

Texans after Abbott tells everyone to unmask...

Texans favorite pastime, ignoring government officials!

Assjack.

Will he be there sniffing in the germs?

Hold these guys liable.

We’ve all been wearing masks, we’ve all gotten Covid 19 anyway. I’m no infectious disease specialist but I’m going out on a limb and saying the masks have not been effective. Pelosi was “ set up” in a salon not wearing a mask and not social distancing, so....

GQP is not the party of science.

Well he is down with that didn’t he get vaccines am around December 22? So him and his family are good

Ending the statewide masks mandate is a failure. It’s not a good idea. The masks don’t do any harm, they protect.

we need to be wearing three masks and a helmet, its the only choice we have

ihateithere is trending because of this

He is a murderer.

Boycott Texas.

Same guy who did nothing to winterize the Texas electrical grid.

Great move Gov! It’s time 2 start following the science & open things back up!Stop listening 2 that nutjob Fauci & get ppl back 2 work...back 2 school...screw those teacher’s unions! Fire them if they don’t want 2 teach! Get back 2 living the American way...FREE! Burn ur masks!🔥

Reminder that Abbott's executive order allows businesses and other establishments to still mandate masks.

The decisions by TX and MS are so irresponsible, as far as helping kids, teachers and parents navigate the Back To School Campaign. FL is also not far behind in the Neanderthal Index

This man is crazy. So many more at risk. Wonder what are the COVID19 infection rates in Tx now ?

Texans are independent thinkers not sheep. They certainly do not tend to follow simeobe who has proven ineffective during say a snowstorm.

I’ll stop wearing my mask when Greg Abbott walks again.

Mr. Rodgers doesn't believe in science, he stays warm in his sweater while waiting on pee wee Cruz to arrive so they can rehearse their 'Abbott and cruztello act.'

MaskUpTexas

Has he received the vaccine yet? I don’t understand how he can sleep at night knowing that he is putting the entire state of Texas at risk. I hope the healthcare system can handle the load that might occur from this poor decision.

Doesn't mean you have too. 🤔👍

Covidiot

He’s a danger to us all. I question his mental stability.

This angry, evil man is Hell bent on punishing the world for his unfortunate disability. Sadly, this is not unusual.

This is murder.

AbbottFailedTexasAgain

In related news vanderbiltlaw asks for their degree back from GregAbbott_TX

This will Backfire. We know Because President Biden is bring in the people waiting to Mexico. Abbott will blame the Surge on That

No power; no water; no masks! Elections DO have consequences. Well, bless your heart, Governor Abbott.

Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Florida ... Republican States were determined to follow Trump’s known lies vs reality & science; now do so in full defiance of Biden. Republicans are determined to sabotage 46’s Presidency, America, tank’g our Economy & sacrificing lives.

And his announcement was not at all followed by racist and xenophobic tweets propagating false information. 🙄

I can see his angle with opening businesses but why remove the mask mandate? Please spare me the stupid and irrelevant argument that I can still choose to wear a mask. The masks most of us have access to protect others more than yourself. It's just a minor inconvenience by now.

DANGEROUS Authoritarian Abbott! DELIBERATE!!! HOLD Abbott ACCOUNTABLE NOW!

Unreal

Serial killer.

Why is Texas trying so hard to be this stupid?

He can’t end the federal mask mandate for all public transportation

In future news: Texas becomes Ground Zero for COVID21 Also: Dear Mexico, Enclosed is an apology letter for the last 4 years of racist bullshit from our government. Please accept this deed to Texas, as well, for all the trouble. Thank you, America

and Texans know he did it to defer from his blunder of leaving Texas in the dark and with no water. Everyone I know will continue to wear a mask and most businesses aren’t going maskless. AbbottFailedTexasAgain RECALLabbott

We make progress, so Texans can reinvigorate transmission of the virus? You have got to be kidding.

Bonehead move. He’s following the trump book on governing. His next move will be to blame President Biden for huge spike of COVID illnesses. We had 4 years of the former guy doing this to the whole country. TX needs to wake up!

I assume money is more important than health and lives. I know it can’t be easy between the pandemic and the cold freezing weather. But we don’t need to rise the death toll and assistance to the virus to mutate.

Hey GOP, this is a big part of the reason why Texas is turning BLUE. The loss of 38 electoral votes will destroy the GOP forever. I’m not sad.

Brought to you by the same folks that refused to winterize their power grid. Idiots.

His way of deflecting his part in the energy grid disaster...plus needs to score points with the far right part of his base. Same for the AG Paxton....he files suit against one of the energy resellers...the one based in California.

This is weapons-grade stupid. And perfectly on brand for the GQP.

Ahhhh Deflection, at its finest. Let’s talk about this and not the catastrophe they had two weeks ago

I live in a place where our CAR score is .01 but we fall under the no travel zone because we're part of the United States... now Texas is about to screw over the entire country. ihatetexas

Asshole

He even looks dumb.

The Governor is going to have blood on his hands, he’s sending the wolves to the slaughter, totally deluded to reopen given Texas cases went up 20 % last week and the rest of the country is declining, negligence at the highest order and complicit in spreading C19, criminal action

Good.. Lets vaccinate all dems and correct people.. And the 70% others... Back on square one.. Play it the republiKKKan way.. Stop trying to unite these ppl, it won't happen. Since 100 yrs it didn't. Only education would help. Needs decades. But. It's Texas. Same like Florida

2022. Vote him out, Texas!

DO NOT LISTEN to this POS..wear your masks and be safe..ALL those who fight to wear them...you get what YOU DESERVE! No sympathy if you die tomorrow..just stay TF away from people who value their lives...FU anti markers!

He’s good with killing more Texans in order to change the power grid conversation .

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what an idiot he's killing us! GovAbbott

What a Republican - is that an insult yet?

Lots of Texans moving on March 9

This is Greg’s way of extending the pandemic to make Biden look bad and also just wanting to kill poor people.

Pay no attention when the term 'executive' is incorrectly used in the same sentence with 'Gov. Abbott' in the same sentence.

Such a stupid, stupid man.

Remember the Alamo, after you remember to follow CDC guidelines because Texan lives also matter.

This is going to end in tears...

Texas governor abdicates duty, allies with SARS-CoV-2 against constituents.

Special place in hell for him.

What’s wrong with him

The GQP Death Cult 💀

What an evil person 😡

We make some very poor choices on the ones we elect to lead us. We simply have to do better. Trump, for example. It was known that he was short on integrity. Yet we still elected him. Have we no standards? “Just grab them by the pussy?” After saying that and lying we elect him?

A first class idiot. Just when things were getting truly better!

Please do not listen to CRAZY ABBOTT !

Citizens of Texas please do not listen to Crazy Abbott, he has NEVER been there for you, it’s all about him and the GOP not the citizens of Texas, for him it’s party over COUNTRY. His actions of the past few weeks should prove this to you.

Is he determined to put his state at higher risk He is obviously still listening to Trump !!

Health workers in texas should find work in other states ! Texas is a lost cause !

Hes a hater

Unbelievable!!!

Over 93% of Texans remain unvaccinated. Proof that the governor that allowed the grid to go down, will continue to allow his people to die.

Every new case, hospitalization and death will be their responsibility....

And we thought Cancun Cruz was Texas evil. Then came Abbott the Grim Reaper

Conservatives: Greed over people. Always.

So weasels like this creature are suppost to be the great leaders of the free world? Men like this are making an laughing stock out of america.

We can always trust GOP to never do the right thing.

He said they “can”. He isn’t requiring they do. He is doing what government is supposed to do, let business run itself!!

He wants people to die so he can blame the Biden administration for it.

Governor Abbott is No Scientist! 4Real.🇺🇸

Idiocy.

GovAbbott BloodOnYourHands

NBC: A number of migrants seeking asylum and released by Border Patrol have tested positive to Covid-19 tests in Brownsville, Texas. Some plan to continue their journey to other cities and states. Anyone who complains and supports open borders is a hypocritical liar

Governor Abbot for the Score!

Brilliant move. More infected. Opportunity for variants to jump the vaccines. What are you thinking? You’re NOT!

And this is blatant disregard and disrespect to what that president has called for. Maybe that is the point

Cray Cray....Plain and Simple.

When did it become political strategy to engage in genocide of your constituents?

Disgusting and reckless! VOTE HIM OUT!

Good luck Texans.......may the odds be ever in your favor!

God bless Texas! Thank you Gov. Abbot!

Idiot

What a dunce and political novice! GovAbbott More people will die of COVID-19 because of this action. texasweak! gop

Did I miss their infection rate being at almost zero? Geez, how dumb can this dude be? Good luck Texas, y'all are going to need it.

Just in time for spring break! That’s why, right?

Here's hoping Abbott is the very next Texan to catch the virus.

What a dope!

He’s still Suffering from hypothermia because he’s not thinking clearly

OMG!!😟

Really Trying to start another wave of COVID Guess your trying to kill more people ... Shame on Texas . I’ll be telling people to avoid Texas

So we're changing our 'Texas Strong' now to 'Texas Stupid'? And now we know George Bush Jr. Was the smarter one.

Bad move.. but what do you expect from him. At least he is consistent. What a mess we are in😢

schmuck

*%& him

Hope they stocked up on body bags... The borders should be closed or they will infect us all. They seem determined to kill as many as possible. Why let them kill us ?

Thoughts and prayers for Texas...seriously.

Ignorant human

I can’t even with this guy.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Texas proud!

May God continue bless the United States of America

My husband manages a restaurant in the suburbs of Houston. This is all his, very Republican, clientele is talking about tonight. He’s surprised that no one agrees w/ this out of Abbott. My guess is most Texans will continue to mask.

FollowTheMoney. He wants to be able to deny unemployment. Murderer. CapitalismKills

Until Greg Abbott stands up and addresses the state of Texas like a man, I'm not listening to him; he can keep rolling over rocks. Hope he gets his finger jammed in his spokes.

They better get zero federal dollars for anything related to covid.

Says the prolife Texas Governor, yeah right GovAbbott

Idiot.

We got frauds who question the need for an anti corruption czar cause they are in networks waiting to steal bill after bill! Where is the money lying and in which accounts? They keep tabs. Then bank managers n employees are in their fraud networks too. Very bad problem.

Good luck as all your healthcare workers move out of state.

FAILED LEADERS KILLED 44K

So much for bipartisanship

Super spreader state alert.

Fool and we'll all pay.

He should be tried for attempted murder

Thats the GQP for ya.

Has he had his vaccine doses yet? I imagine so.

This is criminal conduct. The most dangerous thing to Texas is governor Abbott!!!

I feel bad for the non cultist people of Texas..

He’s such a.....

He’s going to have a lot of blood on his hands and doesn’t give a damn!!

Texas is the new Florida. Stuck on stupid.

Almost like GregAbbott_TX would rather kill people than help end the pandemic that Trump purposely let infect millions of Americans. Murderers.

Kiss the ring of FAILED leadership! This is beyond insane. I’m waiting for class action lawsuits against 45 & the GOP!!! They are responsible for the majority of the deaths.

It’s so irresponsible! I feel so sorry for Texans. Deliberately killing people with this executive order! GOPBetrayedAmerica

He's just like trump...he doesn't care how many Americans he kills.

Covidiot

I smell 45s hand in this. Wonder what the king of terrorism said in his phone call.

I guess there weren't enough dead Texans after the states massive power failure.

99.97% survival rate. More known about the virus than ever before. Therapeutics available. Hospital beds and ventilators available. Vaccines already being administered and becoming more available every week. Its time to open up. No one will make you go if you don’t want to.

About time!

Can’t kill Texans fast enough, cowboy?

This.... is NOT going to end well. But then again, it is Texas! Duh!

Teachers and parents with medically fragile children are screwed. Thanks Abbot. 🤬

I’m sure he’s pulled a Trump and has already been vaccinated.

93.2% of Texans aren’t fully vaccinated. The state just endured one disaster worsened by selfishness + denial of basic science, and now conditions are being set for another. Repealing the mask mandate now endangers so many people, especially essential workers & the vulnerable.

Governor Abbott you have told your people that they do not have to mask,but be responsible.

Tbh, my family in Texas was already operating like things were normal. I’m in GA and even I was surprised.

Love it! Thank you!

Every man for himself.

Wow! Why wasn't he as concerned about the freeze storm, loss of power, water, and now excessive electric/water bills? Last in USA in covid-19 testing and sorry vaccine distribution and administration?

Madness, bring out the body bags, insanity

WHY? WHO'S PRESSURING YOU TO MAKE THIS HORRIBLE DECISION

What a stupid move

That's because he hasn't met his quota of killing off more of us Texans after the big freeze last month so he JUST HAD to do this to thin the herd to catch up.

What a dumbass. TexASS

Im a speed reader :)

Buildthewall around Texas and make Texas pay for it.

Covid patients go stay with GregAbbott_TX

I wish the tree had better aim

Hope hospitals are more prepared. Haven’t even seen the state vaccine plan most counties don’t have a plan.

Covid is so happy for the states that are run by republicans. State didn’t spread it enough during snow storm so now need to get their numbers up. With the finish line in sight this is stupid

Texas Governor does not give one flip about his people. He only cares about GOP pressure. Incredible.

Reckless!!

What power outage?

And counties that disagree? Will he let them try to save as many lives as possible? Is that okay with him?

Is he insane? Should we wait until we have more people vaccinated, aren’t we trying to slow the spread?

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