HOUSTON — Sipping coffee at a sidewalk cafe in upscale Houston Heights, Evelyne Marcks shakes her head at the Texas governor’s decision to scrap a mask-wearing mandate before the Covid-19 pandemic is under control.
“I don’t know who he is trying to please,” she said, sitting at a table at the Central City Co-Op, “but it’s certainly not people like us from the big cities.”
“He probably wants to please the right-wing people who live in places where, to be honest, there’s no need for a mask,” she added, referring to the roughly four million Texans who live in rural areas.
But some restaurant owners and clients in the state’s largest city, Houston, were perplexed by or even ag…
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