FREE • GRATIS VOL. 4 • NUM 33 www.LaPrensaTEXAS.com 15 de Agosto de 2021 Los Cosas Hablando sé Entienden 2 La Prensa Texas SAN ANTONIO 15 de Agosto de 2021 Let’s Talk About It This grass roots publication is the life source for a community that is not easily Who's fault is it?! afforded viable access to diverse and ac- cessible media. San Antonio and the sur- By Yvette Tello distancing) we would not be in this position. Brittany Deusenberry: “When the science rounding counties have become accustomed The City of San Antonio and Bexar County To those people crying about masks, some of shows that kids are such a low-risk population to relevant news brought to them in both are seeking a temporary restraining order y’all go to bars and take your kids to parties, and not (generally) in extreme danger from this English and Spanish since 1913. on enforcing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's lat- movies, HEB and let them roll all over the illness, and that masks have done very little to est emergency order. Do you think the city floor. I’ve seen it! And yet y’all want them to stop or even slow transmission, but we keep of San Antonio and Bexar County are doing wear a mask in school. I don’t take my kids to seeing the government attempt to reinstate the right thing to sue Governor Abbot? Let’s HEB, Walmart or anywhere else. My husband measures such as mask mandates. It would By Leonard Rodriguez Yvette Tello talk about it... goes to work, we distance and we wear masks. be better and more effective for schools to This column highlights inspiring sto- Interim Publisher I haven’t hugged my grandma in almost 2 implement engineering controls/dispersal and ries of Latino leaders. For more than [email protected] Carolina Roberts: “Bexar County has to take years or visited her house! I find ways to destruction of airborne hazards per recommen- Ramon Chapa Jr. back everything Abbott has taken from us. make my kids enjoy life the best we can with dations from Senior Industrial Hygienists who 50 years, Latino men and women have Community Liaison Vote Abbott Out!” these circumstances and explain to them the are trained to do environmental assessments. positively influenced the face of United [email protected] importance of hand washing and when they go They also make recommendations on appropri- States society. Let us celebrate these Roxanne Eguia James Perez: “I heard lack of safety measures to school they wear a mask! So do what’s best ate PPE by situation and individual medical Editor In Chief and protecting individuals in academic and for your family and stop depending on city of- history/assessment, but we are no longer outstanding hispanics. [email protected] commercial environments is negligent and ficials or state officials to mandate anything!” "following the science". As someone who is Nicodemus Gonzalez highly irresponsible, especially when such fully vaccinated (in a household where all who Graphic Designer measures are readily available and the lives Norma Jean Navarro: “It’s the officials job are of age are also fully vaccinated) and has Dr. Ricardo Romo of children are at stake. It’s so easy for people to do what’s best for the citizens who elected been watching videos from medical doctors Contributors to focus on politics when the same people them. Kudos to them for doing the right thing. from different parts of the US and even abroad [email protected] aren’t attending the funerals produced by their It’s not fair having my kids having to sit next say masking children is not as beneficial as José I. Franco rhetoric... oh until it hits their neighborhood to little Karen with no mask after my family we have been led to believe, and vaccination Editor Español or home or, forbid, themselves or close family has been doing what we have to for the sake should be up to each family making an IN- Maria Cisneros members (even their own children). Where’s of being safe.” FORMED CHOICE, certainly recommended Sales Representative the politicking then?? Too late. I side with the for adults, I disagree respectfully that we need Roy Aguillon safety of human lives and rather than to hold Elizabeth Casias: “Do people understand schools to have mask mandates. I believe in Digital Editor any political bearing on a matter of public that in order to help slow spread of the virus individual freedom and doing risk/benefit safety and the irreplaceable lives of educators everyone has to wear a mask? If only the analysis regarding interventions, as well as the and children!” unvaccinated wears a mask, it limits the pro- reports that Delta, while yes very contagious, tection when the ones that aren't wearing one has not been shown to be more dangerous in Docia Vowell: “Thank you to Mayor Niren- are around. The mask is to protect you from general than the original virus. Also, given Community Sponsor: burg and Judge Wolff of San Antonio, Austin getting others sick, not the sick protecting you. that while cases are rising, the national US ISD, Dallas ISD, Houston ISD, for making the Unless you have your children wearing the DEATHS per day are still quite low, which is safety well being of our children, teachers and n95 mask or higher, your children will not be a good thing. If you don't think so, then you school staff and our families the top priority. protected by any means if sent to school with are not following science at all. Vaccination Thank you for standing up for our children, a regular cloth mask. It is helpful for kids and is ultimately to prevent mass death right? So teachers and school staff and our families when all teachers to wear a mask to protect our kids. in theory the vaccines are working, and yes Governor Abbott wouldn't.” The delta variant is highly transmissible and if there may be children who are ending up in a group of unmasked kids who are vaccinated the hospital and/or dying, this happens every Rick Trevino Sarah Gomez: “People don't realize this is so can still catch the virus and carry it, you will day from other illnesses and some of those much more than just the mask mandate. It's infect someone so fast because you weren’t we don't have vaccines for. We will be living Breaking into the industry with also requiring the schools to do contact tracing protecting yourself from spreading the virus.” with Sars-Cov-2 for the rest of our lives and his single “Just Enough Rope,” and requiring a quarantine for anyone who may our kids lives, and their kids lives. Be smart, have been in contact with a positive case. This Veronica De Los Santos: “Unvaccinated get healthy if you aren't already, take your multi-talented Rick Trevino is a hot is how you help to keep it from spreading in a people started it and continue transmitting it.” vitamins, get fresh air and sunshine, wash your building with hundreds of students.” hands, and if the vaccine is right for you get commodity in the ranks of country Caitlin King: “Can they just leave things it, but stop doing things proven to have little Athena Vierling: “Yay! This is awesome! alone? As a citizen, we should be responsible music. 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Cutting your children to wear their masks, and wash “This move is for those that We are not responsible for, nor will we be Jason Aguilar: hands frequently. Regardless of whether or cannot be trusted to make the right decision on across cultural borders, he has set liable for the acts, omissions or debts of La Thomas DeGroat: “Way to go Governor Ab- not other students wear their masks, for their their own. Your utopia of a government that Prensa Foundation, Inc.; La Prensa Publica- bott! Don't let these bullies push you around. OWN safety. Not anyone else's.” allows its citizens to make decisions on their himself apart, recording several tions, Inc.; or any of the Tino Duran family You can't get a restraining order against the own only works when those citizens make companies. person that runs the state.” gold country albums in both Span- Vanessa Adame Muñoz: “If parents wouldn’t decisions (like wearing a mask and getting La Prensa Texas San Antonio is published once send their sick children to school, then it vaccinated) that protects everyone. Ironically, Felicia M. Huizar: “Why are they still talking ish and English.