I have an explanation: maybe they're doing things outdoors. Hey, if it's good enough for Lying Sack of Shit Fauci, it's good enough for me. He's the #1 expert in the world after all.
https://www.inquiremore.com/p/where-is-texass-predicted-spike-inWhere is Texas's Predicted Spike in COVID Cases?Believing in science means believing in intellectual humility.
On March 2nd, Texas’s Republican Governor Greg Abbott announced that he would be ending the state’s mask mandate on March 10th while allowing businesses to operate a full capacity (with some limitations, like if hospitals see a surge of COVID-19 patients).
This move provoked an avalanche of doomsaying. Here are a few examples:
President Joe Biden: Biden called the move a “big mistake” and implied that it was “Neanderthal thinking.”
MSNBC Anchor Chris Hayes: Hayes found Abbot’s decision “disturbing.” He warned that “there is no upside to repealing a mask mandate at this point in the pandemic.”
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa: Hinojosa declared that “Governor Abbot has lost his mind by doing this.”
CNN Analyst Chris Cillizza: Cillizza penned a column about Abbot’s move calling it a “head-scratching, anti-science decision.”
I could list many more examples, but this was a representative sample of media figures and politicians. There was widespread agreement that the mask mandate was essential to keeping COVID-19 cases down and that lifting this mandate would have disastrous consequences for the state.
We’re now a little more than a month out from when the mandate has lifted. Here’s what’s happened to COVID-19 cases in Texas:

As you can see, there was no boom in COVID-19 cases. Of course, we won’t know the exact impact of the mandate until it’s more rigorously studied. But here’s some food for thought.