Earlier this month, Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbot defied health experts when he lifted his state’s mask mandate.

Now, Texas entrepreneurs are paying the price.

According to a report in Thursday’s Texas Tribune, at least four organizations cancelled conventions in Austin, the state capital, citing health concerns stemming from Abbot’s dismissal of CDC guidelines. The Austin Hilton has lost $350,000 in revenue because of the cancellations, according to Austin Convention Enterprises.

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On Thursday, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology cited the expiration of Texas’ Covid-19-related precautions when it announced that it would no longer be holding the in-person portion of its annual conference that was set to take place in Austin. It’s unclear if the organization is one of the four already reported on.

The CEO of the health organization told The Texas Tribune that the mask mandate ending “felt like the rug being pulled out from underneath us.”

More at link:
[link:https://www.newsandguts.com/a-single-texas-hotel-reports-350k-in-lost-revenue-due-to-end-of-mask-mandate/|

My representative died of Covid and we have an election May 1. I got my application through my county website. Here is the state link:

https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/voter/reqabbm.shtml

[link:http://static.drivetexas.org/#7/32.340/-99.500|

Drive Texas is the TX DOT site

My senators are Cornyn and Cruz. No hope for Cruz, but there is an outside chance that Cornyn may be reasonable. My Representative died of Covid on Sunday.

Any thoughts on what to say other than, "Convict the SOB."

It was such a pleasure to actually focus on the person behind the desk and see that it was President Biden!