Texas Ended Lockdown Restrictions, Sees COVID Cases Drop to All Time Low

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Washington DC, When Texas Governor Greg Abbott ended lockdown restrictions on businesses earlier this month it was with a certain swagger. “I just announced Texas is OPEN 100%” he announced. “EVERYTHING.”

President Biden was dismissive and snarky at the news, accusing Abbott of “Neanderthal thinking” and “making a big mistake.” A commentator in the New York Times says his only problem with Biden’s comments was that “they were an insult to Neanderthals.”

Well, it’s been 17 days since Texas reopened and COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to see a downward trend. On Saturday, Texas’ seven-day COVID positivity rate reached an all-time low of 5.27 percent, while hospitalizations have fallen to their lowest level since October.

Nothing is definitive and final when it comes to COVID-19, but it seems to us that far from being primitive the “Neanderthal thinking” that Biden sneers at seems a lot more modern than the medieval lockdowns that have been tried for the first time in centuries with COVID.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9410481/Texas-COVID-numbers-fall-17th-consecutive-day-following-reopening.html?ito=email_share_article-top

All this while states like New Jersey cling to mask wearing lock downs and continue to lead the nation in COVID cases.

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