After the catastrophic freeze in Texas, the governor is lifting all pandemic restrictions

Oh, I forgot about water. I hope there aren’t a bunch of Texans planning to travel to California. I guess Alcupulco is closer anyway. ;)

@Aquitaine24 So true!

A total moron for sure!

@Aquitaine24 Definitely. Otherwise, you just know people are going to travel . . . and then we never get out of this pandemic!!!

I’m for travel restrictions against states that don’t have pandemic mandates.

Really don't want to lift the restrictions too soon.

As long as they do it with each other and don’t travel.

@Aquitaine24 I agree.

I sure hope so as well.

@db20747 i thought there was one.

@Aquitaine24 I do believe if they drop the mask requirement they should get limited aid from the government. There needs to be a national ordinance

Thankfully, I live in California. I just hope they don’t decide to travel here.

@CarolDM yes, the travelers during Thanksgiving and Christmas helped spread it big time the last time.

@Aquitaine24 I see that now, well good luck in California too.

Well ,it’s not good if they all decide they don’t need to wear masks or socially distance. Then there are those who decide to travel. They could create a nightmare for other states. There is criticism of Governor Newsom being slow to reopen, but the other states that have little or no enforcement are certainly a huge factor in his proceeding with caution.

@sharonelton That is true.

@Aquitaine24 Exactly, that's what I was thinking. People might want to get back to normal, but it's not good if all that does it get the virus spreading again. It's like when Boris Johnson lifted restrictions to early in the UK and then there was a second wave.

@porwest well, the CDC was convinced masks were needed, but there was a shortage. That is where the cloth masks come in. And I agree, some are better quality than others.

Well, face masks must work; otherwise, why do doctors use them? If you were having an operation, you wouldn’t want the surgeon to go maskless. It does help if people remember that masks are FACE masks, not moth or chin masks.

@Aquitaine24 Surgical masks do more good than non surgical ones. I will agree with you. Better than 90% of the "masks" in use and even being sold are not surgical masks. Basically, any piece of cloth over your face counts as wearing a mask, so this has all really been just semantics from day one. IF the CDC and the government(s) REALLY were interested in the idea of mask mandates being effective, they would have not only mandated masks, they would have mandated what qualifies as one. So with that in mind one has to question what the real story is behind the pandemic, behind the mask mandates, and what we were really trying to accomplish here. The bottom line for me is that if the CDC and other officials were truly convinced masks were the answer, wouldn't they have done more to make sure that masks in use were the RIGHT masks to be used? IF their intent was really to combat what they were telling us was something we really needed to combat? I think people tend not to think too deeply into things sometimes, and just buy into the front end narrative and accept that. And in the case of Covid, as a result, people were lead into a mass panic, loss of jobs, and loss of freedom as a result. I think the whole thing is wrong and pitiful what the government did here. I think they had a motive, of course. But that's an entirely different discussion.

Well,i think he should be in line with the rest of the nation. People can still have fun going hiking or going to the beach.