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12. No masking the divide
on face coverings
HEALTH: Confusing guidelines, personal beliefs drive Houstonians’ decisions
Brett Coomer / Staff photographer
Camara White wears a mask while
picking up an HISD computer.
Brett Coomer / Staff photographer
Valencia Lewis wears a mask at a
student pickup for computers.
Melissa Phillip / Staff photographer
Mayor Sylvester Turner wears a
mask at his news conferences.
Melissa Phillip / Staff photographer
Amy Ward makes her face
covering a fashion accessory.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Julia Inés Ventura, 11, wears a mask
to keep her grandmother safe.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Gabriela Baeza, 50, a UH professor,
uses a mask to protect her mother.
Jon Shapley / Staff photographer
Roy Acosta has used his mask
since his daughter gifted it to him.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Brent Taylor, 32, said he wears his
mask when he goes out in public.
Jon Shapley / Staff photographer
Emily Deatherage says she’s worn
her mask since March 10.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Bernardo Castro, 20, wears his
mask when he goes out in public.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Vanessa Torres, 42, who lost a
friend to COVID-19, covers up.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Kara McIntyre, 39, wears a mask
even after a negative COVID-19 test.
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Like many brides, Grace
Gibson spent a year laying
out the details of her July
wedding in Belize. But then
the new coronavirus ar-
rived, putting the Houston
resident’s best-laid plans on
ice.
“Wejustaren’tsurewhen
they’re going to be able to
travel again, be it to Belize
or to Houston,” she said of
her and her fiancé’s fami-
lies. “So we just have every-
thing on hold right now.”
When the novel corona-
virus made landfall in
March and civic leaders de-
ployedbansonlargegather-
ings, wedding plans — and
the businesses catering to
them — ground to a halt.
May weddings have been
lost, but with the slow re-
opening of business this
month ahead of the June
stretch of the wedding sea-
son, venues that host the
events have been allowed to
open at 25 percent capacity.
The shutdowns and
crowd suppression mea-
sures have dealt a major
blowtoanindustrythatsur-
vives on head counts. And
the hit came at a time when
venues,caterersandflorists
typically do the bread-and-
butter sales that sustain
Wedding industry jilted as pandemic shrivels sales
SLOW SEASON: Venues waiting for fall
as summer heat, virus hurt key season
By Amanda Drane
STAFF WRITER
Brett Coomer /
Staff
photographer
Brad
Schreiber,
president of
Ashton
Gardens,
said he
expects a
40 percent to
50 percent
decrease in
sales for the
foreseeable
future.
Weddings continues on A10
Kara McIntyre remembers
the day she likely contracted
COVID-19 — she wasn’t wear-
ing a face mask.
She was at Target and be-
gan to feel dizzy. Later she
checked her temperature and
had a fever. So she got tested
for the novel coronavirus,
and a few days later her re-
sults came back positive.
The 39-year-old radio DJ
did not wear a face mask be-
fore she was infected in
March, something she said
she feels guilty about now.
“I know I came in contact
with a person who tested pos-
itive for it,” McIntyre said. “I
wasn’t going out much, but I
put gas in my car, went to the
grocery store. Knowing I
went through that and may
have gotten other people
sick, that’s terrifying.”
As the state reopens res-
taurants, shopping malls,
gyms and salons, whether or
not to wear a mask has be-
come a hot-button issue. To
some, it’s a way to signal one
has their neighbor’s health
and well-being in mind. To
others, it’s an inconvenience
or an attack on American
freedoms.
Government officials don’t
agree on the issue either. In
late April, Harris County
Judge Lina Hidalgo issued a
No masking the divide
on face coverings
HEALTH: Confusing guidelines, personal beliefs drive Houstonians’ decisions
By Julie Garcia
STAFF WRITER
Brett Coomer / Staff photographer
Camara White wears a mask while
picking up an HISD computer.
Brett Coomer / Staff photographer
Valencia Lewis wears a mask at a
student pickup for computers.
Melissa Phillip / Staff photographer
Mayor Sylvester Turner wears a
mask at his news conferences.
Melissa Phillip / Staff photographer
Amy Ward makes her face
covering a fashion accessory.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Julia Inés Ventura, 11, wears a mask
to keep her grandmother safe.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Gabriela Baeza, 50, a UH professor,
uses a mask to protect her mother.
Jon Shapley / Staff photographer
Roy Acosta has used his mask
since his daughter gifted it to him.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Brent Taylor, 32, said he wears his
mask when he goes out in public.
Jon Shapley / Staff photographer
Emily Deatherage says she’s worn
her mask since March 10.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Bernardo Castro, 20, wears his
mask when he goes out in public.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Vanessa Torres, 42, who lost a
friend to COVID-19, covers up.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Kara McIntyre, 39, wears a mask
even after a negative COVID-19 test.
Masks continues on A10
“I wasn’t going out much, but I put gas in
my car, went to the grocery store. Knowing I
went through that and may have gotten
other people sick, that’s terrifying.”
Kara McIntyre, 39, who tested positive in March
President Donald Trump on Monday
threatened to yank the Republican Nation-
al Convention from Charlotte, N.C., where
it’s scheduled to be held in August, accus-
ing the state’s Democratic governor of be-
ing in a “shutdown mood” that could pre-
vent a fully attended event.
Separately, in an interview on “Fox &
Friends,” Vice President Mike Pence listed
Texas, Georgia and Florida — three states
with Republican governors — as possible re-
placement hosts.
Pence said that without guarantees from
North Carolina, Republicans might need to
move the convention to a state such as Tex-
as that’s further along in the reopening pro-
cess.
The New York Times reported last week
Texas in mix
to host GOP
convention
NEW SITE?: Trump threatens
to pull 2020 event from N.C.
By Maggie Haberman
NEW YORK TIMES
GOP continues on A17
SPORTS
As facilities open, new economic
proposal on deck for MLB.
PAGE A7
CORONAVIRUS
Houston teachers clean out
students’ lockers as year ends.
PAGE A13
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WASHINGTON — Business might be start-
ing to come back to life in the Houston sub-
urb of Stafford, but it’s not coming nearly
fast enough for the city’s finances.
Sales tax revenue has collapsed during
the coronavirus pandemic, leaving the city
with a budget shortfall of at least 25 percent.
Without a cash infusion, the city will have
little choice but to lay off some of its150 em-
ployees within the month, something it
hasn’t done in its 60-year history, Mayor
Leonard Scarcella said.
“We’ve never asked for a penny of hand-
out,” he said. “But we’re asking (the federal
government) provide us with funding to at
leastgetthroughthisperiodoftime.Wesim-
ply do not have the revenues to continue to
operate our city.”
Such calls for help are meeting increasing
resistance among Republicans, carried in
part by a passionate brand of Texas conser-
Debt rises
above talk
of stimulus
RESISTANCE: GOP pushing
back on aid as deficit surges
By James Osborne
STAFF WRITER
Debt continues on A17
CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
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» Bankruptcy tsunami is building in Texas.
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27. “His name’s Tucker. I posed him mostly for the assignment to be honest,
but I thought it’d be fun to have him sitting in the living room on the
laptop because that’s what school is now.” Photo by Zack Haug,
Granite Bay High School (California); Karl Grubaugh, adviser

28. Self portrait by Samari Goffney, Ben Barber Innovation Academy
(Mansfield,Texas); Shannon Oden, instructor

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