TexasAtxAub

C'mon Homie. You know in certain states trucks win over political party. Plus a true lib as yourself should know its all about the Prius, The Fit, or a Subaru with freaking 50 plus bumper stickers on the back. Conservative large flags........ Liberals wall of bumper stickers.

And enforce mask mandates and vaccination. Along with mask mandates and vaccination. Like if you're a Japanese baseball player that needs an interpreter. https://www.businessinsider.in/sports/news/espns-stephen-a-smith-says-it-is-not-good-for-baseball-that-japanese-sensation-shohei-ohtani-doesnt-speak-english-with-the-media/articleshow/84363029.cms Or thinking of heading to Miami.. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31196207/tampa-bay-buccaneers-cb-carlton-davis-apologizes-using-anti-asian-slur-tweet Or, want an interview with the Mayor of Chicago https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/lightfoot-says-she-will-only-give-1-on-1-interviews-to-journalists-of-color/2514015/ Or white and chosen to support your country https://www.newsweek.com/jalen-rose-calls-kevin-love-white-token-us-olympic-basketball-team-1604537 Or Hispanic and a police officer https://ktla.com/news/local-news/video-woman-goes-on-racist-rant-calls-deputy-a-murderer-during-traffic-stop-in-san-dimas/ Like in Chicago https://apnews.com/article/breonna-taylor-virus-outbreak-chicago-elections-illinois-1b292427ca19f33e040ea418fd5a3c17 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/05/chic-m03.html There are those for sure. And substitute science with propaganda and rhetoric https://kutv.com/news/local/lehi-teacher-caught-on-video-making-controversial-statements-in-class-has-been-fired I think you over-corrected man... come join those of us in the middle.

Oh she loves that argument. Known it for years and heard so many times. Especially with her dad, uncle, and little brother owning a landscape business. Yes statistically per capita it works. And the deaths are usually transportation related, poor safety awareness (use your equipment right.. self inflicted), and health (good ole cardio vascular). With the exception some auto accidents we are talking about death by inanimate objects and human ignorance or error. No emotion. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2008-144/pdfs/2008-144.pdf?id=10.26616/NIOSHPUB2008144 But then when you want to talk to about Trump supporters it leaves being purely statistical and involves politics, emotions, mental health. Lebron James pulled the same bull**** with officers: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29735483/lebron-james-says-black-community-terrified-result-police-conduct Officers face that same kind of stuff when they approach individuals, and that is a major part of the danger of their profession. You want to work it statistically then work it statistically across the board. Wanna toss in the intangibles then do it across the board. But don't do that oh she is a Hispanic female and you know those Maga attitudes and she is in real danger from terrorist. Then when she put on her uniform and pulled over/answered suspicious calls and had to approach individuals in high crime areas go oh no big deal, she's safer than a guy mowing a lawn. Your probably one of those oh hey you're brown and female and your being oppressed I support you, oh wait your in blue? you know you never gonna be white people.

Private business in Texas can do mandates all they want. Austin did a 500 fine. Which initially worked, but then people figured out they were not fining people (1 ticket in 1 month). You can see noone was worried (and clearly see no enforcement by officers in the 6th street videos). Even a year ago Adler admits he doesn't have the police resources to enforce one, the biggest benefit of the mandate was education, and almost echoes Abbott with a community expectancy statement. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-police-has-given-out-just-1-fine-for-not-wearing-a-face-mask/ Austin now has even fewer officers, your worst rates of vaccination and adherence are in the ethnic populations unfortunately. Look how angry some of you are, you don't think vaccinated people wearing masks won't call the police? and many of them would be legitimate calls. But the cries of racism will ring out. Plus Garza and Garcia are tossing out about 77% of misdemeanor cases for the year so far. The SO didn't enforce it. She walked by a group of guys one night and said "evening gentlemen let's be safe and wear our mask". Their response was racial gender pig. She laughed it off cause she didn't wanna risk getting spit on (cause she had no desire to take them in or fine them) and have to deal with the COA work comp mandates. Getting a supervisor, getting the paperwork, going to the hospital, hoping not to get a liberal ER physician with an attitude that would delay putting orders in or argue if a draw was necessary (mandated by COA to return to duty) and wasting her entire shift. And this is in a liberal/Democratic city. The way it worked enforcement wise last time, I don't think mandate would have any bite truthfully.

This one is fun also. This is a Chem class in Utah. My favorite is her complaining about the variants, then complaining about getting a variant, but apparently the vaccine/mask combo has not clicked with her yet as she does not exercise her right to wear one.

Lol, I see Lori Lightfoot read my post.

My girlfriend, ex law enforcement, would like to remind you that more people have been killed by landscaping than by Trump supporters. They really aren't that dangerous. This guy loves kid, is a great person etc etc.... well except he knowingly bought his felon boyfriend the gun that killed Officer Ellah French. This is the guy that it is contributing the the double digit shootings and deaths in Chicago every weekend. Can we start addressing and taking out all of the trash. I'd like the next time I go get food on 6th street not to have my night interrupted by people randomly shooting 14 people also.

How am I doing on my Ichy facepalms Bird? I see almost all of them have one.

So what is the punishment? I showed you 6th Street for Halloween 2020. Social distance mandate in effect, mask mandate in effect, and no vaccine yet. Do you ticket these people, do you arrest them? What do you do with those that violate the mandate. You are the gov of Texas, what do you do to those individuals?

If it was Chicago last summer I'd lean toward it happening. Remember you had this stuff going on all summer, like after a officer involved shooting in Englewood. Video shows BLM in downtown Chicago following the shooting, then shows what happened when they decided to go down to Englewood in person.

I forgot how to get into my actual account cause of the vaccine.

It's called diversion and it is based on level of care needs (they aren't being denied care, even the article uses it as a catchy headline then properly addresses). These are patients using EMS and are sent to other facilities. We actually had patients brought in from San Antonio/New Braunfals that were non-covid last week (foot/hand injuries, hyperglycemia, even sore throats.) You would be surprised what some people use an ambulance for. Seen people use an ambulance and walk out with prescription for over the counter allergy meds. Then get mad that the ambulance won't take them home lol. But yes, space is an issue and there is diversion. The patients hold in the ER then the next day you see a large number of DC's and those patients are moved upstairs. I've now worked ED's at two facilities over the past 3 weeks and one was on diversion once (accepting all other days) and the other I have not seen go on diversion. I also saw one that could of opened 26 more beds in the ER, but didn't have the staff to cover it. You can't just turn patients away though, it breaks EMTALA. Your getting diverted (in which case EMS has already screen/stabilized/triaged), or you're physically walking into an ER where again by law you will be triaged/stabilized/treated. Here is the demographic make up of two of your largest hospitals in the state of Texas with extremely high diversion rates: https://www.harrishealth.org/about-us-hh/who-we-are/Pages/statistics.aspx https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/10/houston-coronavirus-emergency-rooms/ These unfortunately are populations that are not getting vaccinated and they are populations that from readings and personal experience mandates are not going to work on for many. In all seriousness, they will come in for Covid systems and won't wear their mask in the hospital. There are as many of them that won't act as there are the anti-mask/vac whites. I guess you could force vaccination mandates and go into those areas (but we know how that will turn out). Far as mask mandate, you can do it but there will still be significant portions that will ignore it. Go back on lockdown? That has lead to riots in Germany, England, France, Australia, etc. I do think full shutdowns would result in riots now in the US. And I agree it sucks. Dems/Rep both ****** it up and their followers will bully the other side about it. It should be a pure Public Health issue with people getting vaccinated and not being bitchy cause they have to wear a mask while getting milk.

Don't forget these people. Like I said.. people are gonna do what they want when it involves their lifestyle on both sides. https://cbsaustin.com/newsletter-daily/large-crowds-turn-out-to-celebrate-pride-even-after-postponement-of-austin-pride

Why would he think someone was Democrat. It shows a Democrat accusing musicians of causing actions.? Post was half-serious, but it does show how people will make things fit their agenda. ZZ Top encouraging violence lol. Even you have to find humor in that. Or how about the Biden bus on 35? People went nuts about that. 1) Regardless of any political affiliation, if its an SUV in the Austin area on I35 with California tags involving a lane issue...... its the people from California. 2)It was funny to see people get upset about the cars, flags, and yelling given the nature of the SEC. 3)Wonder why you never heard any more on that, cause you know if it was the Trump side fault it would of been everywhere. Probably because: https://www.yahoo.com/now/local-police-biden-staffer-may-221437081.html And I voted for neither party this time, voted Hillary in 16 though. Well damn, I voted for Beto also. So I am an independent that has voted more Democratic or write in during the last 4 elections.

The point would be I think (considering it was posted on Tequila and Tres Hombres), that the person in the OP most likely (well actually given his image issues does) have mental health issues. Just like this guy is most likely to have mental health issues, should we start digging through his social media for BLM stuff. Perhaps he was going for the suicide by cop idea (gf had 2 of those tried on her the past year and half) for the cause. Or was he going for the ambush kill of an officer (using this to attract them) which is up something like 500%. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-employees-shot-smiledirectclub-antioch-tennessee-police-say-n1275791 I'm going mental issues for both, and examples of why mental health should be considered more in gun laws, and why straw purchasers should face stiffer penalties.

So does this mean we aren't blaming ZZ Top anymore? RIP Dusty Hill

Texas numbers, my bad: https://tabexternal.dshs.texas.gov/t/THD/views/COVID-19VaccineinTexasDashboard/Summary?%3Aorigin=card_share_link&%3Aembed=y&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y Can't edit with this post count it seems, and can't decide if I want to get my old account back.

Where you gonna build the wall Homie lol. Recent statistics: Believe you are in NC right? Population 12 and up that have one dose at this time reported: 60% https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard/vaccinations State of Virginia: Population 12 and up receiving 1 dose at this time reported: 62% https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-summary/ State of Texas, land of the anti-vaccination as reported at this time 12 and up receiving 1 dose: 64% I got my sisters opinion today as she is a govt employee with 3 kids in K-12. She is like me, mandate or no mandate doesn't matter. We know what to do and she has consistently been teaching her children the same. Accountability for our own health. Her kids actually did better when she decided to just keep them home, cause they complained about constant interruptions and time spent trying to get other kids to keep their masks on or worn properly. Anyway, be safe man. News stories out of NC (sorry if that isn't wear you live, some reason I think it is) seems like you might not be very far behind Texas in regards to spread and bed issues. Its possible my old organization might be in that area also.

And it wont stop Texas Dems from grabbing a case of Miller Light and ignoring recommendations/mandates or telling people to shelter in and not gather while they go to weddings in Cabo either. Yes, Abbott is anti-mandate across the board. The biggest problem for Texas is it's vaccination rate that ranks 36th nationally. Which goes back to the OP statement that Abbott is anti-vaccination, which is not true. It even cut out the measures trying to encourage vaccinations. Yes, many of your "no big govt" and rural conservatives are going to shift blames. When you look at Dallas, Bexar, Harris, and Travis you will see terrible vaccination rates in the African American and Hispanic areas with them shifting blames. My GF's father almost lost his life last year cause he wouldn't get vaccinated despite her pushing him, and he isn't a Republican and is one of those brown people. His decision had nothing to do with politics. She actually did vote Republican though. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/03/unvaccinated-texas-demographics/ Over 99.5% of your Texas covid deaths are in the un-vaccinated since Feb. Texas Republicans and Democrats both need to do a better job in overcoming obstacles in the unvaccinated. Claiming its all migrants doesn't help, and that plane stunt didn't help in regard to vaccinations. Least Delta fears are driving people to get vaccinated. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/us-covid-vaccine-rates-delta-variant.html For me, as I said people are gonna do what they want to in regards to their lifestyle. I wear my mask at work all day, I got vaccinated, and I wear my mask into businesses again.

I don't post here anymore, in fact even forgot my password, still read though here and there. Was curious about this though. Is there a reason you left out the rest of the information in Abbott's statement? He isn't anti-vaccine, he is mandate though. https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-takes-action-to-mitigate-rise-in-covid-19-cases-in-texas Not a big Abbott fan, didn't vote for Trump, didn't vote for Biden either. Abbott is correct though that it is a "time for personal responsibility". Or maybe he is like me and has Clapton tickets and will change his mind post concert (like Lightfoot and Lollapalooza lol). I work ER in a healthcare facility in Travis county, a county that voted something like 80% democratic in the election. I see who is coming in wanting testing, who is getting positives, and who despite that being their reason for coming won't keep a mask on, and start trouble with staff and other patients. I also know the make up of my ICU/TCU/STICU beds. Several car accidents, cardiac numbers are back to norm, and like many cities we are seeing a significant increase in our GSW's and stabbings (I see what every person that enters that ER is there for). I had to get swabbed last week cause of an incident with a patient and their mask (and they were not Trump anti vacc/mask). Fortunately it was the resp/sinus infection that's been sweeping through Austin and not a breakthrough. If you want to know why Texas is trying to import healthcare workers, it is because of pay. Many of the clinical staff (especially nurses) left for travel assignments in other states cause of the pay. We've been working short staffed across the board the entire year. In fact the organization I currently work for (for a very short time longer,I got a new gig myself) just now upped their nursing pay. This is hitting nursing, techs, administration... everything across the board. You got front line healthcare workers getting a joke bonus and 35 cent raises while HEB was giving $3.00 plus permanent raises along with a significant bonus. Their stating pay also increased. Hell the P-Terry's by me (chicken/hamburger stand) is starting with no experience at $18 an hour. That is more than the median pay for many lab/medical techs. I took 2 weeks from an individual going to Costco today. Better hours, they are staffed, will time and a half them every Sunday, and is paying 8 dollars an hour more. Then in Austin who are you gonna get to enforce all those mandates? They are losing officers left and right. Never stated here before but my GF is one of them, finished the post grad work she was doing and got out. Really glad about that, even more so after seeing the weekend event in Chicago. Along with the officers they are losing they de-funded 3 cadet classes so they have no replacements. Their response time to level 1 events has increased by like 40%. What I've learned in the past year plus is this, regardless of beliefs, political affiliation, whatever..... many people are still gonna do what they want to do in regards to COVID if it impacts their lifestyle. Like I said Austin, Tex.... liberal city..... like 80% plus democratic vote. 6th Street 2020, no vaccine available, social distance in effect, mask mandate in effect: Ya'll be safe.