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Politics aside, Texas has not met the criteria for safe reopening because it hasn’t seen a decline in cases for two weeks, said Dr. Erin Carlson, an associate clinical professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington. Even though it’s optional to don a face covering, the evidence supporting mask-wearing hasn’t changed.
“The disease has not abated,” Carlson said. “The disease is not done with us just because we’re done with it.”
Some believe the timing of Abbott’s announcement is suspect. Conservatives speculate he may have tried to regain support following his dismal performance during last weekend’s presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Liberals, though, say Abbott wants to distract from his failure to manage the winter storm disaster.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was caught vacationing while Texas freezes.
This week, the Lone Star State has been pushed to its breaking point. On Wednesday, one of its two GOP senators hopped on a Cancún-bound plane to get away from it all, earning him a new nickname: “Flyin’ Ted.”
Cancún s forecast called for a high of 84 degrees Wednesday. Meanwhile, below-freezing temperatures punished millions of Texans who had already spent much of the week facing rolling blackouts and now confront boil water orders because of record-setting back-to-back winter storms.
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After Cruz was pictured on a Mexico-bound plane, the chorus calling for his ouster rose to a shout. Critics say it was one thing for him to lie about the results of the 2020 presidential election, which some believe helped to inspire the Jan. 6 insurrection. It’s quite another, though, to leave for a vacation with millions of constituents left suffering in the cold.