Texas Governor Threatens Fines for Local Officials Who Enforce Mask Mandates

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Texas governor Greg Abbott on Thursday threatened to issue fines to local officials who enforce new mask mandates.

Abbott’s warning comes after the CDC reversed course earlier this week and recommended that people in areas with substantial spread of COVID-19 should wear masks indoors — including vaccinated individuals. The new guidance is the result of concerns over the highly transmissible Delta variant.

“Texans have mastered the safe practices that help to prevent and avoid the spread of COVID-19. They have the individual right and responsibility to decide for themselves and their children whether they will wear masks, open their businesses, and engage in leisure activities,” Abbott said in a statement.

The Republican governor issued an executive order on Thursday encouraging residents in areas with high transmission to “follow the safe practices they have already mastered,” such as wearing masks where social distancing is not feasible.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-governor-threatens-fines-local-012211820.html

How stupid can you get?

Abbot: Hold ma beer.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If it pleases traitor trump, that is all that matters.

Abbott would be in prison if we applied the laws equally. Mass murder.

[Nexus2]

2. Have Abott and Desantis made a bet on which of them can get the most of their constituents killed?

[LisaL]

3. No, but they might as well have.

NT

[QED]

5. Don't forget Ducey

He's a wannabe jumping up and down trying to get recognized for his anti-masking efforts and amicus brief to overturn Roe.

[Blues Heron]

4. At least 11,893 Texans apparently didn't get the memo on mastering the art of

not getting covid yesterday. But yeah, fine the people trying to stop the plague - that makes a lot of sense... The right wing mind is so utterly strange.