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So......I guess we’ll have to shut the country down every winter now. We’ve allowed the government to “mandate” and “restrict” our liberties for awhile now. We’ve invited big brother to tell us how to live our lives. Fear rules, and “trust us - we know what’s best for you”. No thanks.

The answer to the question is impossible to know with 100% certainty. But it’s time to test the waters... Governor Abbott has decided to start moving ahead in a very slow process. Good. Not good enough though. Let’s ramp it up a little more even. We are luckier than some regarding the number of deaths. Not near as bad in Southeast Texas. So why not open things up. I’m tired of being protected from myself. I was at the grocery store yesterday sans mask, and a lady who was wearing one commented to me, “You sure are brave...”. I said, “Why, because I’m not wearing a mask?” She replied yes and I explained to her that 1. I can’t find any N95 masks, 2. If I could, I would save them for my asthmatic son and others in my family who are more at risk, 3. I never wore a mask during flu season and 4. I sanitized my buggy, don’t touch my face, keep about 10 ft. between me and the next guy if possible and finally, I don’t know for certain, but I think we are being led down an unnecessary path that could do worse than kill us. Our freedoms and liberties that hundreds of thousands of people have died for (including my Dad) are slowly but surely being taken away from us. I’ll take my chances. I wished her good luck and continued looking for the perfect tomato. I have no issue with her wearing a mask or trying to ensure her own safety. But I’m a frickin grown man. Can someone let me wipe my own ass for goodness sake?

No way to stay at home until there's zero chance. We go to work everyday knowing we could be killed in a wreck. The flu comes around every year, no stay at home orders. People die every day due to complications from smoking cigarettes, no ban on those. Time to get this country back on track.

But at what point do we lift restrictions? As I remember, Stay at Home initially was to slow down the transmission of the disease to prevent Hospitals from being overran. We’re there. My question, do we Stay at Home until there’s zero chance of anyone dying from Covid? Until it goes away? What if it never goes away, what in the cornbread hail do we do then? Do we huddle in our homes until we die of Covid, hunger, despair/suicide? Millions of people/families are losing everything they owned. At some point, in the near future, we need to open everything up. Dam the torpedoes, full speed ahead. Jmo

CDC officials do not have exact counts of how many people die from flu each year. Flu is so common that not all flu cases are reported, and flu is not always listed on death certificates. In 2017, there were an estimated 80,000 + flu deaths, much higher than the normal average. So the question to me when trying to use the flu as the barometer as to when we are supposed to freak the hell out over an illness is this: why didn’t we as a nation lose our jobs, our savings, our common sense, our liberties with such an outbreak of the flu? That’s not to say that we should diminish the severity of the China virus. But it should speak volumes to the idea that maybe there has been a gross overreaction regarding this illness. The reaction to the China virus is as much political as well as a field day for the media as anything. Perhaps if there is ANY positive thing that has come from this crap is that maybe we will begin to approach ALL communicable illnesses in a more responsible manner.

This could make a new drinking game.

This question is impossible, I know we’re just bored but no answer is wrong, SETX is a football hotbed. There was so many greats to come thru here it would be crazy to try and rank them

...only the ones that were licked in the store

FYI: Some Blue Bell homemade vanilla intensifies the positive results...medically speaking.

Yea I saw a story yesterday about opening up beaches in Florida. If you don't follow the rules, you will be subject to prosecution. These new rules are not the typical "no glass bottles, no public nudity." Who decided these new rules? Was it voted on by state reps? I'd bet not. We the people own the land, be it public or private.

Alot of teams that are In bigger classifications wont play smaller classification teams due to the fact of possibly losing and job getting talked about losing. Just because your a 6A school doesn't always mean your better than a 4A or 3A school....that's why.....JMO

I can understand why he does this even though I wouldn't like it if I was on the other side. He's right, if he holds his team back after they build a big lead they will never gain the stamina to play a whole game. This gives them the chance to win the ultimate goal, a state championship which every football player in high school wants to accomplish that feat.

Do you know that he doesn't? Remember, the final schedule for teams like Refugio are more of a reflection of who is willing to play you than who you are willing to play. Ask Coach Johnston in Newton, Coach Thompson at WO-S. I have even heard that Silsbee has at times had difficulty putting up a 10 game schedule.

I know what you’re saying. I just don’t agree with the premise that you are trying to imply that good old southern slavery is the same as the government making you pay your taxes or buy a fishing license. Apples versus oranges.