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| Ron Paul: Is The Texas COVID "Spike" Fake News? |
| 2020-07-07 |
| [ZeroHedge] On July 2nd, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order mandating the wearing of face masks across the state, whether indoors or outdoors, when six feet cannot be maintained between people. In the governor’s decree, he cited a rise in Covid cases, a rise in test positivity, and a rise in hospitalizations as justification to force people to cover their faces in public. The move is not only a violation of the civil liberties of all Texans. Abbott may have based his executive order on inaccurate information about a "rise" in Covid cases due to the Texas State Department of Health Services changing the definition of what constitutes a "Covid case." Thanks goes to Collin County Judge Chris Hill for blowing the whistle on what appears to be a move in mid-May to redefine what was a "Covid" case to open the door to a massive increase – all to match the mainstream media line that a "second wave" was on the way. In a Commissioners Court hearing for Collin County on May 18th, it was revealed that while previously the determination of a Covid "case" was a confirmed test result, the definition was suddenly changed to count "probable" cases as "cases." At the same time, the threshold for determining "probable" was lowered to a ridiculous level. As Judge Hill said at that May 18th meeting, "If you have a subjective fever and you have a headache and you live in Collin County, you now meet the qualifications to be a probable COVID patient. It is remarkable how low the standard is now." Even worse, once a "probable" case was determined based on possibly unrelated subjective criteria, up to 15 people in possible contact with that "probable" case were also listed as "probable cases." And "probable cases" were considered cases. Repeat that farce across Texas and is it any wonder there was a "spike" in "cases"? Also, Governor Abbott's claim that hospitals were being over-run by Covid patients was refuted by the Houston hospital directors themselves, who said they were nowhere near actual capacity and in fact were about the same level as they were last year. Related: Greg Abbott: 2020-07-03 Things Just Got Real: Statewide Mask Mandate Imposed In … Texas Greg Abbott: 2020-06-24 Seven states hit record COVID hospitalizations: Texas tells residents to stay home, California and Arizona set new one-day highs while Florida and New Jersey vow to crack down on BARS as infections surge across the U.S. Greg Abbott: 2020-06-13 The Second-Wave Covid Scare: The numbers are better than the headlines, and reopening is necessary. |
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