Mayor Brenda Gunter Addresses Spike in Coronavirus Cases

No one is gona comply with another lockdown or put up with 25% capacity crap again the will be a second spike everyone knew that and if there’s a fall lockdown aka during holidays the economy will tank and it’s holidays people are gona go see family no matter what do open it all up 100% and get the population control COVID crap over with 1/3 of population is the goal I also don’t know a single person that has gotten it guess I’m lucky?

sad to see the mayor falling under the spell of panic.

"Because you are spending longer periods of time with people in a confined space when they come to your home. When you go to the grocery store, you are generally not there long." - is one of the most idiotic things i've ever heard.

While true on the face of it- that logic only holds up if the small group of people you're with *are* compromised with the virus.

On the other hand, going to the grocery store, that we all know isn't being cleaned properly (come on- walmart quit wiping down the self checkouts constantly after each person used them weeks ago), standing in lines for 20-30 mins at a time, after going through the entire store and touching improperly disinfected, or not disinfected at all, merchandise, with people who aren't using proper mask procedures...somehow the mayor expects us to believe that is safer?

Vretis is a quack. he constantly says how we need to be wearing masks in his videos, while not wearing a mask at all. I guess the camera crew must be immune to the virus huh Vretis? what about those protests a few weeks ago with hundreds of people at them? they definitely were NOT social distancing then, laying down side by side with each on the steps- where was Vretis then? heck the media made a big deal out of that one officer (who will then go on to the deal with the public) shaking the protestor's hand. where was Vretis and the mayor to criticize that?

the masks are just pointless. we all know it. look at how people wear them, with their noses exposed half the time. or they constantly fiddle with them, taking them off and on and moving their position around. or they don't disinfect their hands before they touch them each time.

if the virus is in your spit and saliva and runny nose drainage, then it's all over the mask. then the idiots who fiddle with their mask touch it constantly. then they go into walmart and touch things, including the conveyor belts, the touch screens, the card readers.

I think that ^ is doing far worse than a random person sneezing in a corner of the store by themselves, or in their own home with a small group of people they at least know and can warn properly. heck even the WHO and CDC say that asymptomatic transmission is very rare at this point, and that nobody should be wearing masks *unless* they're dealing with someone who is confirmed to have the virus.

it sucks if you get the virus and get hospitalized. even worse if you end up on a ventilator and bankrupted when and if you finally get out again. i understand that, and i don't want anybody to end up that way. but fear mongering with idiotic statements like "it's safer at the grocery store than your own home" is absolutely ridiculous, and shows why we don't need to be listening to these people.

If the mayor in Austin extended lock down until August 15., how come we can’t? Exercise Wisdom if you care about the citizens of San Angelo.

“As the governor has said, we cannot be stricter than his executive orders so we cannot issue another stay-at-home order from the City at this time.”
This is simply not true. When Gov Abbott initially set his executive orders you stated we could ONLY go MORE strict, not less. This hasn’t changed. Mayor, you CAN extend stay at home orders. Even if people don’t comply 100%- it sends a message of safety and cautiousness and that’s what the majority of our citizens need in order to comply. At least set the orders for the upcoming holiday. Easter was already weird, we got Memorial weekend, we got graduation parties... just stay home for 4th of July. Hand out free sparklers and have parades in the street. We can do this.

If some of you folks in the preceding comments don't care about getting sick, being hospitalized, going on a ventilator, that's your choice. However, you have absolutely no spiritual, moral, ethical, or constitutional right to visit your misery on others. If you can't protect your fellow citizens by staying six feet away from them in public or by wearing a mask or by following any of the CDC guidelines, then you need to stay home. If you make someone else sick, you are injuring them. If you are sick and you expose someone, then you have assaulted them. If someone dies because of your inane way of thinking and your irrational fear of surrendering to science, then you have committed manslaughter. The rest of us are wearing masks, and in my case also gloves, because any right thinking persons knows there are idiots like you out there. So just go ahead Bubba and drink your beer and hang out at the local watering hole and complain about everybody and everything else. But the rest of us want a life, a real one.