Bummed about the SWA changes. They were my default domestic carrier. I don’t fly domestically enough for status but maybe time to fly the same alliance for both domestic and international moving forward. #southwest
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COVID in Austin Update (June 25)
State of Texas Governor Abbott is pausing the reopening of Texas. Since we are in this situation because of the reopening, simply pausing it won’t do anything in and of itself, but it is something. Gov. Abbott issued GA-27, an order to suspend elective procedures at hospitals 📄 in Travis (Austin), Bexar (San Antonio), Harris…
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COVID in Austin Update (June 24)
News We’ll start today with irony. New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut will now require a 14-day quarantine for anyone coming to those states from Texas and a number of other spiking states. As you may recall, Texas imposed a quarantine on those coming from those areas earlier in the pandemic. If you were planning…
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COVID in Austin Update (June 23)
First, thanks everyone for reading. I heard from a reader that these posts are your daily reads to catch up about the virus. That’s humbling to me. Thanks. As a reminder, I try to stay pretty limited to the Austin area, or at least to Texas. I’m not going to usually comment on things said…
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COVID in Austin Update (June 22)
Governor Abbott held a press conference this afternoon at the Capitol. To be direct, it contained nothing of note to anyone who has been paying attention. If you want a few more words about what he said, he acknowledged numbers are trending all in the wrong ways. Positivity, per his numbers, went from ~4.5% at…
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COVID in Austin Update (June 21)
Austin and the State of Texas are trending in all the wrong ways.
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COVID in Austin Update (June 20)
On the news front, it has been pretty quiet today. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) issued emergency 30-day suspension of license to two Austin bars for violating COVID-19 protocols, the agency reported today. If you’re planning to get a drink at Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden or Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot Icehouse (both in the 700…