AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas is ratcheting up restrictions on neighboring Louisiana, one of the growing hot spots for coronavirus in the U.S., and preparing Dallas' downtown convention center to house infected patients as Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday announced a sweeping series of moves to both slow...
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For those proclaiming Texas is not doing enough then read the article and starting as of Noon today no one from Louisiana is allowed in unless they are quarantined for fourteen days!
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"But how aggressively Texas troopers will patrol incoming traffic wasn't immediately clear.
"Hours after Abbott's announcement, traffic both in and out of Texas was freely moving along Interstate 10 near the Sabine River that divides Texas and Louisiana.
"No state troopers were seen patrolling the interstate, although multiple highway electronic signs in both directions warned drivers that 'Personal travel from Louisiana must quarantine.'"
The failure to prepare for and react didn't just start in December when countries around the world failed to respond after COVID-19 left Wuhan
"The failures were actually programmed decades ago as the shared commons of public health were simultaneously neglected and monetized.
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"A country captured by a regimen of individualized, just-in-time epidemiology—an utter contradiction—with barely enough hospital beds and equipment for normal operations, is by definition unable to marshal the resources necessary to pursue a China brand of suppression."
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