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Texas' Coronavirus Cover-Up (Original Post) Shell_Seas Apr 2020 OP
Gov Abbot is opening the State of Tx on Friday 🤬 Budi Apr 2020 #1
My boss told me it's time to come back in the office; since TX is an employment-at-will state... Shell_Seas Apr 2020 #2
So did the CEO of Broadcom, Jane Austin Apr 2020 #4
K&R SheltieLover Apr 2020 #3
Florida appears to be doing the same thing. Baitball Blogger Apr 2020 #5
Hot off the press for this OP: TexasTowelie May 2020 #6
Right now TDCJ is reporting 20 inmate deaths from Covid and 9 more pending autopsy. Shell_Seas May 2020 #7
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
1. Gov Abbot is opening the State of Tx on Friday 🤬
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 10:55 PM
Apr 2020

Stay home & stay outta the way for 30 more days if you don't want to be in the 1st Control Group.


Shell_Seas

(3,331 posts)
2. My boss told me it's time to come back in the office; since TX is an employment-at-will state...
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 10:59 PM
Apr 2020

If I stay home, I lose my income...in the middle of a recession.

I'm not alone in this situation.

Jane Austin

(9,199 posts)
4. So did the CEO of Broadcom,
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 03:58 AM
Apr 2020

whose thousands of employees had productively been coding from home for weeks.

No testing, just temperature checks.

It makes my blood boil. There's just no reason they can't work from home.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/19/1938762/-Broadcom-CEO-forcing-non-essential-employees-back-to-work-on-April-27

TexasTowelie

(112,085 posts)
6. Hot off the press for this OP:
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:02 AM
May 2020
TDCJ inmate dies in Tennessee Colony lockup; COVID-19 a factor

James Matthews, 68, who was incarcerated at a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) facility in Tennessee Colony in Anderson County has died in his cell.

Matthews was found unresponsive inside of the Beto Unit on April 13 after being tested for COVID-19 on April 9. There was no indication from TDCJ if the test results had been received prior to Matthews' death.

A preliminary autopsy report suggested that COVID-19 contributed to Matthews' death.

At the time of his passing, Matthews had served 17 years of a 40-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault of a child out of Hopkins County.

https://www.jacksonvilleprogress.com/covid-19/tdcj-inmate-dies-in-tennessee-colony-lockup-covid-19-a-factor/article_bab54bf2-8bc0-11ea-9138-c7577691b865.html

Shell_Seas

(3,331 posts)
7. Right now TDCJ is reporting 20 inmate deaths from Covid and 9 more pending autopsy.
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:22 AM
May 2020
https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/covid-19/offender_mac.html

It's horrible. They have 1,200 positives out of like 1,700 tests and another 1,200 in sick on isolation, I'm assuming because there are not enough tests.

They should let out non violent offenders or people eligible for parole.
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