Frustration after spring break trip leads to COVID-19 outbreak

Three weeks ago, close to 70 University of Texas students took a chartered spring break trip to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico. Now, nearly two-thirds of them have tested positive for COVID-19.

News of the trip and the positive tests sparked angry responses on social media. It also brought some choice words from Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen.

“Quit being an ass. That’s my message, candidly,” Bonnen said when asked about people who refuse to follow social distancing guidelines and recommendations to avoid travel.

“Whether you think this is an issue or not, it is,” Bonnen continued. “The reality of it is they’re coming back and they may not have the illness themselves, but they could spread it to their grandmother or grandfather of their favorite aunt. They could spread it to a neighborhood.”

Bonnen emphasized that the current health orders that have shut down businesses will end when all Texans take steps to slow the spread of the virus.

“I want to be clear, the viability of the Texas economy is 100-percent linked to Texans staying home and social distancing,” Bonnen said. “The sooner the Texas economy is put fully back into business, the sooner we will be in a positive position.”

[lymarie]

They have to pay for their choice... sadly they don't care and it seems their parents do care either. Its someone else fault, nope its yours. the rest of us are paying for their actions.

[buntoskiffler]

Nothing new, during the Black Plague there were those still carrying on delights with the dead piling up outside.


-b

[louididdy]

That's what you get for weak enforcement!!!