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Executive order regarding Texas businesses reopening could be coming next week UPDATE: See threadmark for details
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Yes he did know. He's a liar. He needed a weak excuse for ignoring guidance and spoke to his lowest most credulous common denominator.
Update - Plans announced
Gov. Abbott announces phased reopening of Texas businesses
Gov. Greg Abbott announced executive orders Friday that will reopen businesses and state parks, ease surgery restrictions and aim to reduce further spread of COVID-19 in Texas.
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I didn't get to watch it, but bullet points from Reddit:
- Elective surgeries start April 22nd
- Next Friday - all retail can start as to-go
- Schools to remain closed through end of school year
- State parks open Monday (must wear mask and be in group less than 5)
- More details to be released April 27th
Yknow what this is fine i thought it would be way worse.Gov. Abbott announces phased reopening of Texas businesses
Gov. Greg Abbott announced executive orders Friday that will reopen businesses and state parks, ease surgery restrictions and aim to reduce further spread of COVID-19 in Texas.
I didn't get to watch it, but bullet points from Reddit:
- Elective surgeries start April 22nd
- Next Friday - all retail can start as to-go
- Schools to remain closed through end of school year
- State parks open Monday (must wear mask and be in group less than 5)
- More details to be released April 27th
Yep same here I thought it'd be way worse considering how conservative TX. My main concern is the state parks reopening but I'm mostly fine with the rest. Lots of hospitals are actually struggling due to non essential surgeries being limited and what we don't need is hospitals going out of business in a long term pandemic like we could be facing.
My only concern is like the 27th and what hes gonna dump. Its not like he could reopen hotels right? Could be a bad idea.
This retail to go business is some shit. Especially if they open the malls. Social distancing is out the window at that point. There are still people leaving their house daily, going to walmart for no real reason other than being out and congregating.
It's going to get worse.
It's going to get worse.
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Curious as to what businesses will actually be open for the whole retail to go thing. This isn't as expansive or reckless as I'd feared, but I think there's going to be some confusion as to that particular aspect of it, because I guarantee we'll have people showing up at the malls and shit trying to get in.
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That's a lot less insane than I expected. No customers in-stores.
Correct. According to the guidance, no one in the stores but employees.
It's not as terrible as I feared.
I work in El Paso and this is what it looks like right now :
As can be seen we have yet to reach our peak yet retail stores are supposed to go back to work next week? Literally just yesterday a Target employee tested positive. They "cleaned" the store afterward but seriously how can you clean an entire department store and also know that that person didn't have direct contact with another employee who then went back home to their family?
Like to seriously mitigate this sorta this we should no joke get another 30 days or we are gonna see a completely new spike in cases which won't even show until two weeks later.
As can be seen we have yet to reach our peak yet retail stores are supposed to go back to work next week? Literally just yesterday a Target employee tested positive. They "cleaned" the store afterward but seriously how can you clean an entire department store and also know that that person didn't have direct contact with another employee who then went back home to their family?
Like to seriously mitigate this sorta this we should no joke get another 30 days or we are gonna see a completely new spike in cases which won't even show until two weeks later.
I'd imagine customers shopping for clothes want to try them on too which isn't really a good idea given the times.
Gov. Abbott announces phased reopening of Texas businesses
Gov. Greg Abbott announced executive orders Friday that will reopen businesses and state parks, ease surgery restrictions and aim to reduce further spread of COVID-19 in Texas.
I didn't get to watch it, but bullet points from Reddit:
- Elective surgeries start April 22nd
- Next Friday - all retail can start as to-go
- Schools to remain closed through end of school year
- State parks open Monday (must wear mask and be in group less than 5)
- More details to be released April 27th
This looks reasonable.
Unless I'm reading this wrong, isn't this just announcing releasing the plans to reopen probably next week? Haven't many other states including California already released plans once they do decide to start re-opening?
Check the threadmark, some of the plans have been announced.
Could use some mod magic on the title probably.
Yup. Before my company shut down we even suspended fitting room usage, and that went as well as you could expect.
He chose ... poorly.
This will not end well. These guys seemingly refuse to understand that if you do this too early, you have to start from scratch all over again, and you end up shutting things down a second time and prolonging the outbreak. But, ya know, whatever, it's Texas. So why expect anything adequate?
This will not end well. These guys seemingly refuse to understand that if you do this too early, you have to start from scratch all over again, and you end up shutting things down a second time and prolonging the outbreak. But, ya know, whatever, it's Texas. So why expect anything adequate?
This is still dumb. I get it, I work for the state, we are losing tax revenue and want to stop the bleed.
But i think there's going to be a spike in people doing dumb shit in parks, harassing retail employees for not letting them in stores, and generally going out and about more than they should to pick up non-essentials.
But i think there's going to be a spike in people doing dumb shit in parks, harassing retail employees for not letting them in stores, and generally going out and about more than they should to pick up non-essentials.
Everything is bigger in Texas...eventually the cases will be too unfortunately...
Like Target is still open in California which is essentially (at least partially) a retail store. They just limit how many people go in at a time.
I wonder if they'll actually get on people to wear masks when they go to parks. We already got plenty people going out without masks in the first place :/
This is actually a lot more reasonable of a plan than I thought it'd be. I think it's still too soon, but I don't think it's going to be the end of the world now.
it'd be fucking helpful if we were actually testing. We're dead fucking last in testing.
Ours too has groceries which is why it's open but like I don't shop there for groceries, I go there to pick up misc art crap to keep the kid entertained! And sometimes groceries on the way out.
Did it actually close anywhere?
I've gone a few times since the stay at home started, mostly cause it's my pharmacy, but another time for drive-up pickup.
I fucking hate this guy, however this does seem reasonable. A slow process of bringing everything back to normal is the way to go.
I was expecting a lot worse, but I still don't like all retail opening even if it is to-go. At least schools will remain closed. As someone who works for a school district AND has a child in elementary, I was really starting to fear the worst.
Looks like the clock has reset for me and I'll be remotely working until at least May 27.
Looks like the clock has reset for me and I'll be remotely working until at least May 27.
This is a better general policy than I was expecting, my girlfriend (a teacher) was anticipating them charging ahead with re-opening public schools. I think it's good that businesses slowly re-open but having retail places open immediately as to-go services will be a nightmare in retail dense areas with a lot of delivery drivers. The individual stores themselves might have an easy time keeping their occupancy down but the general shopping/mall areas will be a nightmare for people attempting to social distance.
Honestly the parks thing bothers me the most, if only because it encourages people to go outside in groups, even if it's limited and they wear masks. We don't need to be doing that yet.
Retail to go and not in-store is fine. Best Buy's been doing that the whole time. And yeah, Targets are still open outside of limiting total people inside.
Elective surgery will help keep hospitals funded and healthcare workers paid, which is vital if things get worse (that things have to work like this is another issue altogether).
Even then I would have probably waited another 2-4 weeks before even taking these steps.
Retail to go and not in-store is fine. Best Buy's been doing that the whole time. And yeah, Targets are still open outside of limiting total people inside.
Elective surgery will help keep hospitals funded and healthcare workers paid, which is vital if things get worse (that things have to work like this is another issue altogether).
Even then I would have probably waited another 2-4 weeks before even taking these steps.