{"id":54713,"date":"2021-03-03T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54713"},"modified":"2021-03-03T11:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T15:19:04","slug":"texas-governor-totally-rejects-biden-nwo-globalist-dictated-covid-restrictions-face-mask-mandates-now-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54713","title":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Totally Rejects Biden NWO Globalist-Dictated Covid Restrictions Face, Mask Mandates Now History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Texas Ends Covid Mask Mandate, Lifts All Anti-Virus Restrictions, Allows All Businesses To Reopen<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (1700ET):<\/strong>\u00a0Shortly after Gov. Abbott&#8217;s decision to follow the science and allow the people of his state to be &#8216;free&#8217; to judge their own risks once again, none other than California Gov. Newsom &#8211; desperate to virtue-signal as he fights for political survival amid an imminent recall vote &#8211; had a two word response:\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Absolutely reckless&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-02_14-02-53.jpg?itok=JTokVMwV\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-03-02_14-02-53.jpg?itok=JTokVMwV\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-03-02_14-02-53.jpg?itok=JTokVMwV\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"195\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"51c67565-49ef-4c0a-8a45-39e43c159384\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have two words for Mr. Newsom&#8230; can you guess?<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>For 30 million Texans, the lockdown nightmare is over, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>With the CDC still scrambling to find any pretext to extend draconian lockdown measures and the new CDC director explicitly urging states\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/health-news\/articles\/2021-03-01\/cdc-to-states-stay-vigilant-as-coronavirus-case-decline-stalls\">not to relax restrictions<\/a>, on Tuesday Texas Governor\u00a0Greg Abbott defied the organization whose politicization has become a stamp of humiliation,\u00a0<strong>and announced that the second-largest US state will lift the mask mandate and all other anti-pandemic restrictions amid declining hospitalizations and infection rates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1366847427492401153&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmedical%2Ftexas-governor-ends-mask-mandate-lifts-anti-virus-restrictions&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1366847427492401153\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Effective March 10, all businesses will be allowed to open at 100% of capacity, Abbott said during a media briefing in Lubbock on Tuesday.\u00a0<strong>His executive order allows county judges to reinstate anti-virus rules should hospitalizations surge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo many Texans have been sidelined from employment opportunities; too many small-business owners have struggled to pay their bills,\u201d the Republican governor said. \u201cIt is now time to open Texas 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1366846908480815106&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmedical%2Ftexas-governor-ends-mask-mandate-lifts-anti-virus-restrictions&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1366846908480815106\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Abbott\u2019s\u00a0anti-pandemic measures had drawn the ire of his conservative electoral base, which saw them as government overreach, and may have crushed any presidential aspirations he harbored. Indeed, Abbott received 0% of the vote in a presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference this past weekend according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, new Covid-19\u00a0cases\u00a0in Texas dropped to a five-month low of 1,637 on Monday, state health department figures showed, while virus hospitalizations slipped to the smallest tally since Oct. 28. This comes as Texas is administering more than 1 million Covid-19 vaccinations weekly, according to Abbott.<\/p>\n<p>And while Texans can rejoice for now that they are the only state where freedom has returned, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before the infamous circular covid chart kicks in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/covid%20flowchart_3.jpg?itok=vVV6m73c\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/covid%20flowchart_3.jpg?itok=vVV6m73c\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/covid%20flowchart_3.jpg?itok=vVV6m73c\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"1f06c4b1-40be-4f05-9dcf-1ad8c7aab543\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and the spike in new cases (as determined by PCR and various government proxies no doubt) resulting as a consequence of this current easing of restrictions, forces the state to lockdown yet again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Abbott&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.texas.gov\/uploads\/files\/organization\/opentexas\/EO-GA-34-opening-Texas-response-to-COVID-disaster-IMAGE-03-02-2021.pdf\">full executive order is below:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_16631\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"EO GA 34 Opening Texas Response to COVID Disaster IMAGE 03-02-2021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/496706591\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-4PBKA8sVqrYpwNxmOx3J\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.6069986541049798\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/texas-governor-ends-mask-mandate-lifts-anti-virus-restrictions\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/texas-governor-ends-mask-mandate-lifts-anti-virus-restrictions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Ends Covid Mask Mandate, Lifts All Anti-Virus Restrictions, Allows All Businesses To Reopen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}