Crenshaw: Business owners “should not comply” with new COVID lockdown restrictions in Texas

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Karen Townsend

January 6, 2021

Here we go again. A consistent rise in COVID-19 related hospitalizations in the Harris County (Houston) area has triggered emergency restrictions. The Houston area and surrounding communities have experienced seven straight days of a COVID-19 hospitalization rate of 15%. This mandates a rollback under Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency protocols.

The increase in restrictions went into effect Tuesday and will remain in effect until the region drops below 15 percent COVID-19 hospitalizations for seven straight days. This mandate includes restaurants dropping to 50 percent occupancy from 75 percent, and bars that have not reclassified as restaurants closing immediately. Some bars, in order to skirt past mandates to close, began serving food in order to be classified as a restaurant.

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