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I think a lot of those closures had to do with remaining open costing them more money than just shutting it down. Our daughter works at Hollister and they were one of the ones that closed before anyone else. Her last shift she said they had one person come in the store in 5 hours that she was there.

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TXTransplant said:

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Not much detail in the article, and I didn't watch the presser, but Abbott plans to issue an executive order next week to address businesses reopening.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-texas-covid19-cases-update/269-f1c36a64-eedc-4d08-bf40-97c62ffcb39b

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r/Houston already reeeeeeing about it

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Holy cow I went to that site and was floored. I'm assuming most of Reddit posters are young like less than 30. The amount of irrational fear of this virus is impressive.

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Nobody is saying we're never going to reopen/rebuild the economy. We don't get there, though, without

• widespread testing (think tens of millions of tests at a minimum)
• contact tracing of positive cases to track community spread
• quarantining positive cases to prevent further spread/new lockdown orders
• vaccine (12-18+ months)

These are SOP, yet neither the state nor the federal government is doing much if anything to support these strategies. As recently as yesterday FEMA was going to END funding for testing, not increase it. As recently as Wednesday Trump was saying that widespread testing would never happen. We don't even know how many COVID patients are in our hospitals. Our local Dr. Hotez stated Wednesday that Houston's case count is likely double or more the current statewide # of reported cases. (It's amazing to me how little that last one has been publicized.)
It is not a coincidence that Abbott says this **** today as it (reopening) becomes a new GOP talking point to save Trump's ass. I mean come on, if someone as lockstep as Tomi Lahren (sp) is parroting it, you know it's a marching order. The Republican Party does not care that this virus is disproportionately affecting Black and brown people. They do not care if it affects you, unless you happen to be a wealthy party member. They do not care about you. They only care about making more money and consolidating power (look at Wisconsin on Tuesday, ppl forced to vote in-person in the middle of a pandemic thanks to the WIGOP) while everyone else suffers, starves, and dies trying to work through an outbreak of incredibly infectious disease because those with the power to even temporarily lend a helping hand are keeping every mask and dollar for themselves and their wealthy friends.
None of the reputable doctors, scientists, virologists, or epidemiologists are rushing to "reopen" society in the midst of this pandemic. I wonder why that is?

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The death rate for people under 40 is 0.1%, so that's ONLY 17,000 dead Texans. What's 10 or 20 THOUSAND fellow dead Texans between friends right?

Under your asinine plan, we just say "**** it" and let everyone get it. I used 17 million as that number, if you want to figure a better number go for it. Let's say it's half that. Still, you're talking nearly 10k people dead.
It's clear you have no clue how the virus works or that, that 500k number is very real if we start relaxing everything and everything kicks back off again.
Stop watching Fox News and listen to, literally, any actual doctor.

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Reddit is just a larger version of the politics board

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APRIL 11 3:10 p.m. A fourth person at a senior living apartment complex has died in The Woodlands, according to the Montgomery County Public Health District. He was a man in his 80s who was a resident of The Conservatory at Alden Bridge. This is the 4th death related to the senior living apartment complex and the fifth person to die of COVID-19 in Montgomery County.

RELATED: 4 residents of a Woodlands apartment complex for seniors have died due to COVID-19

Montgomery County also had some good news to share. The Patton Village police officer who spent weeks on a ventilator in ICU has been released from the hospital.

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IrishTxAggie said:

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Cops still carry nightsticks?! Good God Acevedo is a ****ing tool!

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BohunkAg said:

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There's too much comedy to even describe here.

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IrishTxAggie said:

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They're also called nightsticks

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Harris County health officials have released COVID-19 case counts by zip code, providing the most specific account to date of local infection numbers.
The three zip codes with the highest numbers of cases are 77088, 77084 and 77449 Acres Homes, parts of the Energy Corridor, and a section of Katy east of the Grand Parkway and north of I-10, respectively.

Those three zip codes have between 61 and 90 cases of the coronavirus, although the numbers have not been made more precise than that.

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BohunkAg said:

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There's too much comedy to even describe here.

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