大侠行天下日记 我见我闻我思 03/05

中央地方不同调

德州州长向州民宣称 : “我们已经不需要政府支配我们的生活了” ，这是多麼令人迷惑及‘豪放’的一句话。

州长在记者会上说，从下星期三开始德州境内之各行各业将全面开放营业，也不再强制州民戴口罩，他认為我们州内之疫情已经获得控制，百分之五十以上六十五岁的州民已接种疫苗，跡象显示，我们已经可以回到正常情况，尤其是学生们急需回到教室。

州长之行动目前也得到二十个州的响应，确遭到拜登政府之大力批评。

我们十分担忧德州之开放行动是否為全国防疫工作带来负面之影响，这还牵扯上会有许多人因而会丧命， 德州可否在疫情中独善其身， 中央和地方如此不同调，岂可能面对严峻之挑战？

Can We Survive?

Governor Abbott is opening up the state to end the masks mandate and will allow all businesses to open up next Wednesday. He still urges residents to take precaution, but he said, “Texans no longer need government running our lives.”

Abbott said we are marked at the lowest positivity rate and number of hospitalizations since October. Over 50% of Texans age 65 and older have received at least one vaccine shot. All the metrics are moving in the right direction. People need to go back to normalcy, especially for our kids and schools, while at the same time making sure that people continue to follow the best practices.

Abbott added that we no longer need the government running our lives. Instead, he said,  everybody must continue to assume their own individual responsibility to take the actions that we have already mastered to make sure that they will not be contracting COVID-19.

We are very concerned whether or not the actions of the State of Texas will be harmful to its citizens as well as to the rest of nation.

We just cannot be isolated from the rest of the country. We all love our freedom within a government order, but if we can’t work together, we might face yet another battle.