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I was in court at a county on the Texas Gulf Coast this week and their county government never closed any office during Covid. According to the District Court Administrator you couldn’t tell anything was ever shut down.I believe city and county services will be the last to open...
Everything else not government is open and many never closed like grocery, hospitals, hardware, banks, etc.
A sizable group still pays taxes at the counter with a stamped receipt...
Cash is still not accepted for these government debt and credit cards have a 2% convenience fee.
Annually the Air District would arrive to inspect the hospital generator... It's two two years now and no field inspection but fees are due for annual inspection.
Same for code compliance and low income housing inspection...
Again, my experience is limited to SF Bay Area... which is just a dot on the map...
In Travis County (Austin) the county government was more like you describe in the Bay Area. They shut down at the first opportunity and have resisted RE-opening as much as possible.
To me, the Travis County bureaucrats have proved to people that they are really not needed as much as they think they are.