Executive Order GA-34

Re: GA-34 Please take a moment to reconsider this order against all of the issues harming Texas's citizens and businesses. Removal of the universality of masks impacts small businesses and staff who have struggled the most through the pandemic. This order mainly helps people who are likely already vaccinated and probably don't work in the medical or service sectors as frontline staff. How can the personal responsibility of those in no position to refuse wages/customers serve as any defense from those who already hold their fellow citizens in such disdain that they would object to a simple, courteous, hygienic protection? This is the definition of a "flip-flop" and makes a shambles both of work to protect people and the last vestiges of any organized response or leadership from the State of Texas. If you had stayed out of the way and let local organizations handle the pandemic that would be one thing, but inserting and then removing yourself is doubly harmful. If personal responsibility were sufficient, we would need far less governance on so many other items. Will your next order repeal seat belt laws and speed limits? Surely the personal responsibility of Texans would be enough to keep us all safe on our highways? I join the millions of voices and voters urging you to reconsider and modify GA-34.