Texas starts to shut down again

Why do you not believe their numbers?

The Governor, for months, up to less than 24 hours before.

Thursday:

Mr. Abbott said on Thursday. “The last thing we want to do as a state is go backward and close down businesses.”

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Govt protecting it citizens.

5 deaths.

Allan

I have been listening to the CEO’s of many of the multiple health centers in Houston. They make up the largest medical complex in the world. And they were not ready for the numbers of new cases. They have been overwhelmed and are at 100% of ICU capacity.

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Sorry the number is 7.

Allan

Given the wealth and racial disparities with who gets Covid, what would it look like to escort them all to quarantine camps? It would spark massive violent protests.

I don’t live in Hong Kong and I won’t be asking permission to go outside. I stopped doing that at about 6.

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Florida’s Department of Health on Saturday confirmed 9,585 additional cases of COVID-19, surpassing Friday’s record-breaking 8,942 cases.

Not going in the right direction. On Friday, the state suspended alcohol consumption at bars and Miami-Dade announced that beaches would be closed and most parades and parties canceled for July 4.

Will that Jacksonville convention speech work out?

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It was one morning. Local time.

So Texas started opening back up on May 1st.

Protests started May 29th.

Today is June 27th.

Which one fits the corona timeline better?

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Neither if you look at the 14 day justification period

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Which is the closer fit? And remember, it’s 14 days x 2. Once for the carrier and once for the infectee.

Good point. I have been looking for a link to a report on KPRC this morning that seemed to report that UTMB Galveston was reporting a lot of the early 2nd spike patients were servers and bar staff but I can’t find it. I will keep look8ng

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Why hasn’t there been a surge in NYC?

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You’re speculating on calendars. The governor is responding to specific contact tracing information he has regarding the surge. His orders are targeted based on hard data coming into his office.

“If I could go back and redo anything, it probably would have been to slow down the opening of bars, now seeing in the aftermath of how quickly the coronavirus spread in the bar setting,” he said during an evening interview with KVIA in El Paso.

Oh and
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chron.com/houston/amp/TMC-leaders-Despite-rising-COVID-19-cases-15366132.php

Healthcare CEOs of the Texas Medical Center said Thursday that a letter that was sent out to the community Wednesday regarding the hospital system’s “increasingly stretched” ICU capacity level was “misinterpreted” and stressed the pandemic is not eclipsing hospital capabilities to care for COVID-19 positive patients as well as other patients.

Following reports that TMC had reached 97 percent capacity, Dr. Marc Boom, Houston Methodist president and CEO, said ICU capacity percentages in the 80s or 90s is “completely normal.”

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Ok. If he says so.

SLOOOOOOWWW reopening here.

Yes but protests?

Maybe outdoors really is better?