I somewhat agree, but there were a lot of folks including myself that felt from the beginning that mass lockdowns were not the way to go. I suspect that Desantis felt that as well and resisted as much as possible, but still the correct decision would have been the SD decision.
I have no reason not to believe you. I'm pretty good at telling when you're bullshitting. The LT Col. can only meaningfully agree with DeSantis if DeSantis adhered to some military protocol, imo. Are you aware of any such protocol? I find it hard to believe that a military protocol would supersede the CDC's with regard to civilians. And also not be made public. I'm going to look at DeSantis' specific responses and get back to you.
I think he is just expressing his personal opinion on how DeSantis is handling the overall crisis. I don't think he is preparing an official memorandum to go to the Pentagon to that effect.
Help us out, Gov. DeSantis. We’re dying here | Editorial By Sun Sentinel Editorial Board South Florida Sun Sentinel | Jul 29, 2020 at 5:02 PM https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinio...0200729-klyb3eypgfcyhpsb3ezmxx4fkm-story.html
From the article: “The numbers are not stabilizing,” Broward County Administrator Bertha Henry told the Sun Sentinel’s Lisa Huriash on Tuesday. Actually, they are. That's the good news. Case count appears to be precisely stabilizing, though admittedly it is early in the game and peaks are truly only visible well after they occur. A record 216 deaths were reported Wednesday. That broke the previous record of 191 deaths, reported just Tuesday. This is absolutely true. But as has been stated too many times to count, deaths lag cases by (best guesses say) 2 weeks or so. This means deaths should - key word there - should start to decline next week some time. Unless there is some issue specifically happening in nursing homes, which could very well be as more than 50% of the deaths are occurring in Florida's many nursing homes. Additionally, and this is very important, the death numbers being reported now actually occurred well before yesterday (we just aren't that good at reporting who died precisely yesterday, today). Sometimes weeks before. Your refusal to impose a mask order — a requirement now in effect in 32 other states — is out-of-touch with the mainstream. A new Quinnipiac poll found 79 percent of Floridians support a mask requirement, including 60 percent of Republicans. If that’s not a mandate, what is? This is just silly. Every major metropolitan area AND surrounding counties all have mask mandates in effect. Every last one. The governor has said he simply doesn't see a reason for putting a mask mandate in places like...Apopka, for instance where there are few case and sparsely populated areas. But in the major hotspots (which are really Miami and surrounding metro areas) mask requirements are in full effect. If the governor said, tomorrow, masks were a requirement, does anyone with a shred of intelligence believe the numbers would change? Of course not. Florida now boasts the second highest number of cases per 100,000 people, with 2,008. That’s more than New York, at 1,690; Illinois, 1,365; Texas, 1,345; and California, 1,164. Florida is second only to New Jersey with 2,018, according to the CDC’s Covid Data Tracker. But ranks #20 in all states when looking at the number of deaths per 1M population. States that opened earlier will have a second wave earlier. That's what you're seeing. You'll see fall/winter numbers in the NY area and other states too. And they won't be able to say it is the fault of the Florida governor. You're seeing this now in Europe and Japan. And you'll see it all over the place. On Tuesday, police arrested a local Plantation gym owner who thinks a local mask ordinance violates his personal freedoms and doesn’t apply to him. So like a high schooler who sneaks out at night, he let customers huff and puff mask-free. But as Circuit Judge John Kastrenakes made clear Monday in upholding Palm Beach County’s mask ordinance: “We do not have a constitutional right to infect others.” This has nothing to do with the governor. And it shows that mask mandates are not only in place, but are being enforced. Good. The governor doesn’t want to call for a mask mandate because he says each county is different, so each should make its own decision about how to fight the global pandemic. But he doesn’t have a problem issuing a one-size-fits-all order for all state schools to open next month. Besides, cities and counties don’t have health departments. That’s strictly a state function. And he's exactly right. Schools have to follow a state guideline because there are state requirements on funding. There are state tests and guidelines where students have to hit. You can't have Tampa students doing better than Miami students because one city decided to open and the other didn't. The fact that cities and counties don't have health departments did not prevent them from installing mask mandates. They are in place.
Welcome to Florida... let's put them in jail where they will infect the entire prison population. Most states simply put an ankle monitor on them and have a patrol check regularly to see that they stay home. Florida couple jailed for breaking COVID-19 quarantine as state breaks daily death record — again Neighbors videotaped the couple flouting the requirement and then handed the telltale tape over to the Key West police. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...vid-19-quarantine-state-breaks-daily-n1235326 A Florida couple on Key West that tested positive for the coronavirus was arrested for defying a quarantine order, local officials said Thursday. Neighbors videotaped Jose Antonio Freire Interian and Yohana Anahi Gonzalez flouting the requirement and then handed the telltale tape over to the Key West police, authorities said. “There were complaints from the neighborhood of them continuing to be outside, going about normal life functions,” Key West City Manager Greg Veliz told The Miami Herald. “An officer took the video to the judge and the judge signed the warrant.” Interian, 24, and Gonzalez, 27, appear to be among the first people who have been jailed in Florida for breaking quarantine. “As far as I know, these are the first arrests of this kind in Monroe County,” Brandie Peretz, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County, told NBC News. Word of their arrest came as Florida on Thursday reported a record 253 new coronavirus deaths, according to the latest NBC News tally of coronavirus cases and fatalities. Nationwide, the death toll from a pandemic that President Donald Trump has claimed would "just disappear" rose overnight to 152,717, NBC News figures show. The grim new Florida death toll number came on the heels of state health officials reporting 216 deaths on Wednesday and 186 deaths of Tuesday, both of which were new daily highs in a pandemic that has been hitting the state especially hard in recent months. So far, Florida has logged a total of 456,105 cases and 6,586 deaths, according to state statistics. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a staunch Trump ally, has been harshly criticized for his handling of the coronavirus crisis and stoked more anger earlier this month by referring to the rising case numbers as a “blip.” And many Florida residents like Maria Bavaro of Lake Worth Beach are very angry. Bavaro told NBC News her 87-year-old father Antonio Franco was in an assisted living center when he died in May of COVID-19. "I feel like we should’ve never put him there," Bavaro said of her dad, a hard-working Korean War veteran from Brooklyn who raised three daughters. "I feel like the government failed him. I feel like the state of Florida failed him.” "I feel like we were robbed of his last few months of life," she said. Interian and Gonzalez, who had been ordered to quarantine after testing positive on July 21, were taken into custody Wednesday evening, Adam Linhardt, a spokesman for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, told NBC News. They were sent to the Stock Island Detention Center where they were placed in “negative pressure rooms” where the air is not recirculated into other parts of the jail. “The idea is to keep them apart from the general population and keep them in a place where they can’t infect anybody else,” Linhardt said. “We’ve had people in those rooms before we’ve suspected of having it. If they show symptoms, that’s where people are quarantined.” Each was hit with misdemeanor charges of violating the state law that requires isolation or quarantine in a public health emergency and violating emergency management. Conviction on those charges could result in up to 60 days behind bars. Interian posted bond and was released early Thursday while Gonzalez remains behind bars, Linhardt said. (More at above url)
Yeah, that's pretty stupid. Fine them, or something. But don't put them in jail - even if the contagion factor wasn't a concern.
Sadly Florida's reported COVID deaths reached a new daily peak today. This was entirely preventable if the leadership in Florida took proper actions -- but they did not. New York should have served as a warning & example which should have Florida weeks to prepare for COVID. I will mention once again that several researchers are now projecting that the daily death toll will be above 600 per day by the end of August. I can only hope that the Florida state & local governments in the next few days take actions which can prevent this type of catastrophe -- but it does not look likely & may already be too late. We can only hope that the actions taken by individuals to start wearing masks & avoiding crowds -- will ease the case count and projected number of deaths. As a side note.... Florida is closing some test centers due to the incoming storm (which was a good move IMO) -- this will however reduce the case count in the upcoming days. "Fewer tests could mean fewer positive cases, which could lead some to think the state’s outbreak is under control when that might not be the case." Here’s how COVID-19 testing site closures could impact Florida’s coronavirus numbers State-run testing sites to close ahead of Hurricane Isaias https://www.clickorlando.com/news/f...es-could-impact-floridas-coronavirus-numbers/
I think the big money R's pushed the anti-mask agenda to kill off the Whiteys. Give it time, you all will understand. Is Michael Moore in Florida filming anything???
Not only was it not "preventable", but other states will soon experience it as well. I wonder what you will blame their occurrences on? And there's no way 600 per day will be dying at the end of August. Not unless the rest of the country - no, the rest of the world - is experiencing thousands of deaths per state/country per day in some massive resurgence of a super strain of the virus.