Local mask mandates pop up in defiance of Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order banning COVID-19

[TexasTowelie]

Local mask mandates pop up in defiance of Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order banning COVID-19 restrictions


Local mask mandates are popping back up across Texas — even as Gov. Greg Abbott has stressed that local officials who try to enforce restrictions aimed at reducing spread of COVID-19 will be penalized.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is the most recent to defy the governor’s order. He announced Monday that the city’s nearly 22,000 city employees will be required to mask up inside city buildings where social distancing is not doable, such as bathrooms, elevators and conference rooms.

“The mayor has a right and responsibility to ask city employees to wear face coverings indoors to help stop the virus from spreading,” Mary Benton, a Turner spokesperson, said to the Houston Chronicle. “With the rise in the delta variant cases and high numbers of unvaccinated individuals, Mayor Turner is doing what is necessary to keep [city] employees healthy.”

The seven-day average of new daily cases in Harris County is 1,761 as of Tuesday, compared with 59 cases in the first week of July.

Read more: https://theeagle.com/news/state-and-regional/local-mask-mandates-pop-up-in-defiance-of-gov-greg-abbott-s-executive-order-banning/article_f745cfc2-f57f-11eb-8573-a77f072f909f.html
(Bryan-College Station Eagle)

[LeftInTX]

1. Courts do not have to comply with his order

I wish more jurisdictions would defy his order.....Headline is a bit click bait....

The governor may not do anything about Houston's mandate, mainly because it is employees only. We will see.

I personally believe that banning mask mandates may be a violation of the American with Disabilities Act...
Another DU member was saying how she had been a lung cancer survivor and had asked the university president to require masks in her classroom...Not only did the university comply, the university set a campus mask mandate...

It got me thinking however.....Someone can have asthma, RA, diabetes, which puts them at risk even with a mild covid...I'm familiar a bit with the ADA and mask mandates would be considered a "reasonable accommodation" for any employer to accommodate employees with those types of conditions...