A funny thing happened when Texas Governor Greg Abbott decided in early March 2021 to open up Texas 100 percent and discard his previous face mask mandate – he didn’t consult three of his four medical advisors for, well, medical advice. (Source: texastribune.org.) Hey, what do they know? They’re only MDs. Abbott did, however, consult his “business advisors.” That’s not the way things were supposed to play out beginning in April 2020 when Abbott and state leaders were still trying to figure out how to open up businesses in the midst of a deadly pandemic. Businesses were dying on the vine. Something had ...