So Florida opens up restaurants/bars fully long before it's safe to do so. I suppose the various businesses may use some common sense but what if they don't ? Who should pay for the outbreaks that can be directly linked to various establishments ? Should it be the establishment that acted with negligence ( putting them out of business ), the people who got infected, the insurance companies ( jacking up rates for all customers in the future to pay for it ), or the tax payers of Florida. I'm inclined to think it's one of the latter two. The cost of doing business I guess .
I've noticed that quality of life issues are fiercely defended in Florida. Its like Governor Santis actually represents the attitudes of the citizenry here. What a concept! I've been here for some time now. I haven't had a proper lobster dinner in years, aside from the scurvy looking critters they serve in Panama. Its time to find a proper seafood restaurant! There is also a tiki bar (lol) that I've been wanting to visit. Its time.
Let's see what the Miami Herald has to say... DeSantis still thinks we have a right to give each other COVID in Florida. This time, it’s students https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article246047380.html Managing Florida’s state university system is a herculean task in the best of times. Managing in the midst of the coronavirus crisis might be an impossible task, even for three wise men and 50 Nobel laureates. Still, the State University System’s Board of Governors is obliged to give it the old college try. Instead, the folks responsible for roughly 350,000 students at Florida’s 12 state universities have thrown up their hands and thrown in the towel. Last week, Miami Herald reporters Ana Ceballos and Karina Ellwood checked in on Florida’s university campuses, where the kids are learning way too much about how people in high places get away with passing the bucks and blaming the victims. It’s every university president for himself (and yes, all of them are men) under a governing body that lacks the will and — more important — the power to bring meaningful guidance and resources to a multiplicity of coronavirus-related problems. Even toddlers can tell when the grown-ups are dithering, so it’s no surprise that teenagers and 20-somethings are feeling adrift and turning to their peers for support. LET’S PARTY! Neurobiologists tell us that impulse control isn’t fully operational until the mid-20s. You can’t blame the kids for wanting to gather up and party down in the bars and fancy apartment complexes that surround many institutions of higher learning. But you can bully and berate the kids, especially when their maskless faces end up on sports channels and social media. It’s a short-sighted and mean-spirited strategy, but it’s easier than reckoning with mounting evidence that universities are high-priced Petri dishes growing coronavirus germs that inevitably spread to the larger community in life-threatening doses. The trendlines reported by Ceballos and Ellwood concern prominent Florida epidemiologists and professors of medicine, who show up regularly in national media outlets to plead the case for consistent messaging based upon sound science. It’s the best way — indeed, the only way — to return to what we used to call normal. But they’re prophets without honor on their own campuses. SCIENCE SHOULD RULE That’s because the real power is not with the BOG, and not with the presidents, but with Gov. Ron DeSantis, who, like too many governors before him, has the power of the purse and wields it like King Lear. University presidents have been doing their best to accommodate DeSantis’ desire to downplay the pandemic and ramp up the campus-based economy, without unleashing a run on the campus clinics. Absent coherent, system wide guidance, it’s a mess. DeSantis’ impulse-control issues make it a minefield. Florida State University President John Thrasher stepped in it last week with a memo to students professing zero tolerance for coronavirus-related rule breaking. DeSantis pitched a fit, went full James Madison and directed his staff to “look into a Bill of Rights” for students. Thrasher has every right to be angry. DeSantis has done as much as anybody, and more than most, to advance the party line that partying college kids are just reckless brats who refuse to take “personal responsibility.” In truth, the kids are alright. It’s the adults who need fixing.
The Miami Herald is one of the more liberal papers in the state. I honestly don't give a shit what they have to say when it comes to editorials.
It's like there's no electoral college apparatus in FL that gives outsize voice to a minority of dems.
The Constitutional Republic of Florida? I'm all for it. A tiny bit of Florida speaks for most of the state.
Am I reading this right, are you really claiming 2,000 deaths in 20 days is “great numbers?” What is wrong with you? Did your momma drop you on your head as a baby or something?