Texas Is Showing the World How to Reopen Cautiously—For Now

A month into lifting restrictions, coronavirus cases haven’t surged. Many residents are keeping their distance, raising doubts about the speed of the economic recovery. 

A band wearing protective face coverings plays at a bar on Sixth Street in downtown Austin on Saturday, May 23.

A band wearing protective face coverings plays at a bar on Sixth Street in downtown Austin on Saturday, May 23.

Photographer: Alex Scott/Bloomberg

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Over Memorial Day weekend, a club in Houston hosted a pool party that looked straight out of spring break, with loads of bulky bare chests, bikinis and day drinking on an umbrella-filled patio during a balmy Saturday.