{"id":188845,"date":"2021-03-03T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T21:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188845"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:10:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:10:50","slug":"biden-texas-mississippi-making-big-mistake-in-lifting-of-restrictions-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-texas-mississippi-making-big-mistake-in-lifting-of-restrictions-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden: Texas, Mississippi Making \u2018Big Mistake\u2019 in Lifting of Restrictions Amid Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-texas-mississippi-making-big-mistake-in-lifting-of-restrictions-amid-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> on March 3 alleged the governors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> and Mississippi made a mistake by loosening COVID-19-related restrictions such as mask mandates the day prior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a big mistake,\u201d Biden told reporters in the White House\u2019s Oval Office in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said that masks make a difference during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also said that the nation is making progress with vaccines, but \u201cthe last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, everything\u2019s fine, take off your mask and forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he\u2019s done multiple times recently, Biden referenced a card that he carries with him that has the number of Americans whose deaths have involved COVID-19,\u00a0the disease caused by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of yesterday, we had lost 511,874 Americans. We\u2019re going to lose thousands more \u2026 We\u2019ll not have everybody vaccinated until sometime in the summer. We have the vaccine to do it. Getting a shot in someone\u2019s arm and getting the second shot, you\u2019re going to take time. And it\u2019s critical, critical, critical, critical that they follow the science. Wash your hands, hot water. Do it frequently, wear a mask, and stay socially distanced. And I know you all know that I wish the heck some of our elected officials knew it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/texas-governor-ends-statewide-mask-mandate-allows-all-businesses-to-fully-reopen_3717796.html\">said<\/a> that ending the statewide mask mandate stemmed from multiple factors, including the advancements of vaccines and therapeutics for\u00a0COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3719726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/houston-pedestrians-1200x742-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pedestrians wear masks while walking across a street in downtown Houston, Texas on March 3, 2021. (Mark Felix\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas now has the tools to protect Texans from the virus. We must now do more to restore livelihoods and normalcy for Texans by opening Texas 100 percent,\u201d the Republican said at a restaurant in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, also of the GOP, soon after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mississippi-to-lift-mask-mandate-allow-businesses-back-at-full-capacity_3718207.html\">announced<\/a> the state would be lifting all mask mandates and allowing businesses to fully reopen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hospitalizations and case numbers have plummeted, and the vaccine is being rapidly distributed. It is the time!\u201d he wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have dropped sharply across the United States in recent weeks. Some say that means restrictions should be loosened or done away with, but others argue people should double down on being cautious to avoid a resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, we, at the CDC, have been very clear that now is not the time to release all restrictions,\u201d\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters in a virtual briefing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will also note that, you know, every individual has\u2014is empowered to do the right thing here, regardless of what the states decide for personal health, for public health, for their health of their loved ones and communities. I would still encourage individuals to wear masks, to socially distance, and to do the right thing to protect their own health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden on March 3 alleged the governors of Texas and Mississippi made a mistake by loosening COVID-19-related restrictions such as mask mandates the day prior. \u201cI think it\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/houston-pedestrians-1200x742-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden: Texas, Mississippi Making \u2018Big Mistake\u2019 in Lifting of Restrictions Amid Pandemic","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/houston-pedestrians-1200x742-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden: Texas, Mississippi Making \u2018Big Mistake\u2019 in Lifting of Restrictions Amid Pandemic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}