Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins on reaction to his emergency order requiring masks in all schools

[Nevilledog]

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“There’s a couple hundred people every night outside of my house screaming curse words at my children.”

— Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins on reaction to his emergency order requiring masks in all public schools, after securing restraining order against Gov. Abbott’s (R-TX) ban.


9:50 AM · Aug 13, 2021

[secondwind]

1. We Murcans are sure an UNCLASSY lot.. seems to be getting worse, too.

[jaxexpat]

2. The stupid have been given permission to deny their stupidity.

Oh, yeah. It was stupid people of authority who gave them that license. That's the tree. What we're seeing now is the fruits of that tree.

[calimary]

3. Don't forget their permission to flaunt their stupidity

and embrace it with pride, out in public.

[lagomorph777]

4. They've been given permission to flaunt their stupidity.

They're proud of it.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. I think these are the same people who passed the right of passage as adolescents

Smashing and stealing mailboxes, running over road signs and garbage cans. Red-blooded as red can get in other words.

[KS Toronado]

7. I hope his order sticks & Abbott is unable to do anything about it.

The Judge is saving lives!

[dalton99a]

8. Texas' four largest counties now require masks in schools in defiance of Greg Abbott

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/11/texas-mask-mandates-covid-19/

Mask-wearing in public schools is now mandatory in all four of Texas’ most populous counties as officials try to prevent the dangerous delta variant from infecting school children too young to get vaccinated.

Harris County became the latest county Thursday afternoon to require mask-wearing in schools in defiance of Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order forbidding cities, counties and school districts from enacting their own mask mandates. Hours later, the Houston school board voted unanimously to issue a mask mandate.

Public schools, private schools that don’t have a religious affiliation and child care centers must require students, teachers and anyone else inside their facilities to don masks, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo told local superintendents in a letter Thursday — citing an order by Harris County Public Health.

Harris County joins Dallas, Bexar and Travis counties — where officials enacted orders this week requiring masks in public schools.

[jaxexpat]

9. It's the "two Texases" factor.

Whereas most of Texas lives in the 21st century in the more populated areas, the remainder matches their political importance based on the overblown consideration for the mass of their footprint in the dirt. Like in so many fly over states, the electoral college (the minimum house of representatives apportionment) allows the dirt to more per capita representation than they warrant. It's a base denial of the one man, one vote ethic fundamental to democracy.