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HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY
REOPENING, Texas is open at 54%, according to a review of capacity limits. Across 20 different industries with varying levels of capacity, Texas is the second most open of the largest states.
Reporting by most media outlets on levels of openness lack granularity needed to ascertain just how open states are. Texas is called mostly open by many outlets, but capacity levels vary (0%, 25%, 50%, and open).
CNN's Version | NYT Version | The Hill Version | NPR Version
Related: No coronavirus catastrophes following reopenings
CONTACT TRACING, especially the contract awarded by Governor Abbott last week, is drawing intense push back from members of his party.
Over the weekend, State Representative James White called for a special session to examine the contract and make it subject to oversight by lawmakers.
Meanwhile, the House's village idiot is claiming push back against contact tracing is due chiefly to a Russian disinformation campaign.
Rep. Gene Wu's insistence on weaving Russians into this (or any) narrative is paranoid, like; you may need medication paranoid.
Ironically, Wu is using a debunked Russia trope, which was used to manipulate the population (especially on the Left) to claim the political Right has been manipulated into questioning contact tracing.
At the very least, the use of contact tracing is debatable, especially at this stage of the outbreak, in the rushed manner in which it’s being implemented, and where the privacy of citizens is almost certainly at stake.
Republicans in this crisis have the opportunity to capture meaningful civil rights real estate as opposed to the esoteric patches on which the Left increasingly squats.
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