Texas governor Greg Abbott requests emergency medical help from other states while continuing to block measures to slow COVID pandemic
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I mean what can you even say at this point?
Texas will ask healthcare workers from other states to assist with its surge in COVID-19 cases and request hospitals voluntarily postpone elective surgeries to create more space for coronavirus patients, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Monday.
Additionally, the Texas Department of Emergency Management and the Texas Department of State Health Services will open more COVID-19 antibody transfusion centers in the state. There, patients who test positive for the coronavirus but do not need hospitalization can be treated with therapeutic drugs.
Abbott waited until the third paragraph of his order to encourage Texans to get vaccinated, and never mentioned the use of face masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus and its variants.
Texas senator Ted Cruz everybody:
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) on Monday proposed longshot bills aimed at banning mask and vaccine mandates – the national component of a GOP push in statehouses across the country to block the return of pandemic-era restrictions despite a renewed surge of coronavirus cases.
One bill would repeal an executive order signed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office that requires adherence with the Centers for Disease Control’s guidance on mask-wearing on federal property, as well as the CDC’s mask mandate for public transit.
The bill would also restrict the use of federal funds to “develop, implement or otherwise enforce” federal mask mandates, effectively ensuring that no new mask mandates can be implemented.
The other bill would prohibit mandating any vaccine that was originally authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration – even if it later received full approval – which applies to all three coronavirus vaccines authorized in the U.S.
The masque of red state death is something even the twisted imagination of Edgar Allan Poe could not have envisioned.
I think this especially resonates to anyone who is sending a child under twelve back to school in the next few weeks: