Texas governor recommends mask usage

[mossrose]

Because most people care about their own safety, and actually even care a little about other people's safety too. They just need someone to shut the mouths of the loud mouthed idiots like we have here and in the white house.

And there you have it once again from oxmixmudd. Now not only is Trump to blame for the spread of Wuhan, but Tweb is also right up there with him.

[mossrose]

Could you be any more blatantly hypocritical?

I just love how in the post I partially quoted just now he said it was about politics, and then promptly blamed Trump AND Tweb!

[Cow Poke]

Could you be any more blatantly hypocritical?

Of course it's politics. To pretend it's not is just plain ignorant. BOTH sides are playing this to political damage.
Biden just made his sleeper speech on how badly Trump has handled this situation.
A POLITICAL campaign speech.

[Cow Poke]

And there you have it once again from oxmixmudd. Now not only is Trump to blame for the spread of Wuhan, but Tweb is also right up there with him.

But it's NOT political.

[Sparko]

Dodge noted.

The propaganda this administration has fed you and so many on this website has now killed over 100,000 people that did not need to die.

How many more must die?

Will you only care when it is your parents or other older relatives that are dying alone in a hospital?

Will you only care when it is you?

What happened to, "Please stop trying to make this about politics. This is a serious virus that is killing people?"

Again, stop playing this like it is politics. It is a virus. And the only way to stop it is to do what will stop it from spreading. And the only way to know what that is is to listen to the science and the data.

Right now we need to keep our distance when we can and wear masks properly, diligently, when we can't

You just made it about politics. I thought I would have more time before I got to throw it back in your face.

I never said anything "antiscience" - I was just referring to how the liberals are the one's politicizing the virus. There were "studies" that showed that the riots did not increase COVID cases, but they were warning that Trump's rally would increase cases, and only a few days after the rally they were claiming it did so when there is no way it could have been tallied that quickly since the incubation period is up to two weeks.

[Mountain Man]

And there you have it once again from oxmixmudd. Now not only is Trump to blame for the spread of Wuhan, but Tweb is also right up there with him.

He thinks of himself as the only sane man in a crowd of lunatics, but of course he has it backwards.

[mossrose]

He thinks of himself as the only sane man in a crowd of lunatics, but of course he has it backwards.

Sadly, I'm afraid you are correct.

[Cow Poke]

He thinks of himself as the only sane man in a crowd of lunatics, but of course he has it backwards.

One of my favorite stories....

woman watching news sees traffic cam reports of a "wrong way driver" on I-10 in Houston in very heavy traffic, police in pursuit and trying to clear the highway...
her elderly father is driving in Houston, so she calls to alert him -- "DAD, be CAREFUL, there's a WRONG WAY DRIVER on I-10"
Dad -- "the HECK there is --- there are HUNDREDS OF THEM!!!!!!

[Cow Poke]

I believe Abbott is about to issue a face mask order for Texas.

[Cow Poke]

Gov. Abbott establishes statewide face covering requirement, issues proclamation to limit gatherings

[mikewhitney]

It is about time we wear masks. We really needed them when people were going to the hospital in great numbers ... now that this is not happening (and never happened in the Dallas County numbers we saw), it is all important to don face masks.

[DivineOb]

I'm shocked, *shocked!*, that biology works the same in Texas as everywhere else.

[Cow Poke]

I'm shocked, *shocked!*, that biology works the same in Texas as everywhere else.

I'm not at all - I've been complying with the guidance for my area all along.

[mikewhitney]

I'm shocked, *shocked!*, that biology works the same in Texas as everywhere else.

to be sure... the numbers of death in that analysis remained below flu-death levels of other years. the number of deaths did not increase after quarantine ended nor after Memorial Day. So masks have proven to be unnecessary all along.

[Mountain Man]

It is about time we wear masks. We really needed them when people were going to the hospital in great numbers ... now that this is not happening (and never happened in the Dallas County numbers we saw), it is all important to don face masks.

As I've said before, face masks are the new virtue signaling. "Look at my mask and see how much I care!"

My big concern is that if all these draconian measures are believed to be able to check something as supposedly deadly as the China flu, then think of how it could stop other less serious diseases dead in their tracks. Will we become a permanently masked and socially distanced culture? After all, if it can save just one life then it's worth it, right?