Sadly the state has incredibly poor leadership which has led to this tragedy which is only going to get worse. Florida has more Covid-19 than most countries in the world. These stats show how serious the problem is https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/health/florida-coronavirus-cases-comparisons/index.html What should be a booming tourist destination this time of year is now riddled with coronavirus, dwarfing other states and even entire countries in some metrics. Here's what the situation in Florida looks like: Florida had more new cases in 1 day than the entire US did in about 2 months Florida reported its highest number of new Covid-19 cases in one day -- 15,300 on Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That's a new record for the most new cases in a single day from any state -- including New York state earlier in the pandemic. It took the entire United States 59 days to top 15,000 combined cases -- from January 21 to March 20. It also took the entire US more than two months from the start of the outbreak to top 15,000 new cases in a single day. That happened on March 26, when the US had 18,036 new cases in a single day, according to Johns Hopkins data. Florida has 12x the cases of Australia and South Korea combined Australia and South Korea both have more people than Florida, but both countries have seen just a fraction of the Covid-19 cases that Florida has. Australia (population 25 million) has had 9,980 cases of Covid-19, according to data Monday from Johns Hopkins University. South Korea (population 51 million) has had 13,479 coronavirus cases as of Monday. Florida (population 21 million) has had 282,435 Covid-19 cases by Monday, according to Johns Hopkins. In other words, Florida's Covid-19 cases has topped Australia's and South Korea's combined -- times 12. Florida's Covid-19 death toll is like 10 jumbo jets crashing At least 4,277 Floridians have died from Covid-19. A Boeing 747 plane can carry about 400 passengers. That means the coronavirus death toll from Florida is about the same as if 10 jumbo jets crashed, killing everyone on board. Florida has triple the number of China's Covid-19 cases Six months ago, the world thought this new coronavirus was contained to China -- specifically, the Wuhan area. But now, the entire country of China has less than 1/3 the total Covid-19 cases that Florida does, according to Johns Hopkins data. As of Monday, China had 85,117 total cases since the pandemic started, compared to Florida's 282,435. Florida has surpassed Italy in Covid-19 cases, too Italy came under worldwide scrutiny for its handling of Covid-19 as the disease quickly spread out of control. But after strict government mandates, the country has managed to quell the virus and has largely returned to normal. As of Monday, Italy (population 60 million) had 243,230 cases from throughout the pandemic. Florida (population 21 million) has already surpassed that number, at 282,435. Florida's death toll, however, remains lower than Italy's -- 4,277 in Florida, compared to 34,954 in Italy. Florida has more Covid-19 cases than most countries If Florida were a country, it would rank No. 9 in the number of Covid-19 cases worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins data Monday. Eight countries have higher counts than Florida: the United States, Brazil, India, Russia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. And more than 100 countries have fewer Covid-19 cases than Florida, including France, Germany and Japan.
Not content getting enough airplay in a thousand other threads, GWB does a narcissistic repeat performance here.
Let's see how other nations view Florida... Florida's COVID surge may forebode chilling news for snowbirds https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ke...urge-may-forebode-chilling-news-for-snowbirds Across Canada’s two most populous provinces, a creeping dread is taking hold as the unimaginable begins to look frighteningly real. Every year, once the frost arrives, thousands of grey-haired Ontarians and Quebecers load up the car, truck, SUV, camper or other sensible vehicle and head South to avoid having to endure another Canadian winter. Sixty-plus years of cold and snow is enough; they want sun. They want heat. They want Florida. But, having lost their spring and much of the summer to the coronavirus, they now face the prospect that Florida will steal away their winter. Every day new reports greet them in the morning paper (a lot of them still like their news on paper) revealing the tragically inept efforts of the Sunshine State to ignore, deny, discount, refute, deride or otherwise pretend not to notice the impact the virus is having. The state that gave us hanging chads and a chronic inability to hold an election sans chaos is now distinguishing itself by pretending there’s no reason to be perturbed by a virus that is killing an average of 71 people a day, and rising. "A creeping dread is taking hold" Death is one of those things you tend to think of more often the closer you get to it, so telling tens of thousands of seniors not to worry about an escalating death toll is not a message likely to inspire confidence. Health care being a big issue with older people, it’s worrying to learn that 85 per cent of the state’s intensive-care beds are already occupied, with less than 1,000 left across the state. The central figure in the state’s refusal to accept that something bad is happening is Gov. Ron DeSantis, a big fan of Donald Trump, who has adopted a similar approach to the president in dealing with the emergency. He just insists it’s not nearly as bad as everyone makes out. When Friday’s figures on the lack of ICU beds was released by the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration, DeSantis offered his own alternative figures. “I think between 10 and 12 or 13 thousand — somewhere like that — beds are available,” he said, adding that 90 per cent capacity is “how hospitals normally run.” DeSantis’s view on the pandemic is that it’s all being blown out of proportion. Last week he argued there was no reason to keep schools closed despite surging infection numbers, since some big retailers had already reopened.”If fast food and Walmart and Home Depot … is essential, then educating our kids is absolutely essential.” At the same time, however, he vetoed the budget for online education programs that were picking up the slack by providing online platforms for distance learning. DeSantis says the state has to save money to pay for its coronavirus efforts, even as he denies the extent of the impact. He’s already proclaimed victory once, in a visit to the White House before infection numbers starting shooting through the roof, when he boasted that his “tailored and measured approach” meant Florida was “stabilized at where we’re at.” Since then the virus has swept through the state. On Sunday yet another record was set, with more than 15,000 new cases in 24 hours. That would place it fourth in the world if Florida were a country. DeSantis dismisses criticism, noting that other big southern states are having big problems, too. That’s true enough — Texas and California both have seen new records of infection — but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, like DeSantis a Republican, recently abandoned his resistance to masks and issued a mandatory order, warning that “the only way that we can have people continue to have a job they need to pay their bills is for everybody to adopt this practice of wearing a face mask.” In California masks have been required since June. DeSantis has left it up to individual municipalities to make their own decisions on the basis the virus is hitting some areas harder than others, ignoring the danger that maskless people from hard-hit areas could spread the virus elsewhere. Predictably, the governor is no fan of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House coronavirus adviser, who keeps getting under the skin of Trumpite Republicans by insisting masks are a good thing and that abandoning public safeguards too quickly will make things much worse. Fauci specifically mentioned Florida last week when he suggested the state “certainly … I think jumped over a couple of checkpoints.” That earned a rebuke from DeSantis, who maintained there is “really no justification to not move forward” despite the rising death toll and record infection rate. Needing a reason for the rising numbers, other than his own policies, DeSantis has blamed migrant farmworkers who fill many jobs in the vital agricultural industry, a view contradicted by the state’s agriculture commissioner, who said most migrant workers returned home weeks before the numbers started rising. In any case, the biggest spikes have been in urban areas, not farmland. DeSantis is likely in too deep to backtrack now, which is bad news for Canadian snowbirds. If the governor wants to keep out seasonal migrants, his biggest success may come with Canadians. That’s about $6.5 billion in lost revenue for Florida, and upwards of $700 million in tax revenue. That’s a lot of lost trips to Disney World.
For the 100000% time- REPORTED CASES ARE IRRELEVANT Mortality rate is plummeting now that Cuomo and the other lefty governors have stopped murdering the elderly in senior care facilities.
I live in Florida and it is a sketchy situation. My wife is a fire medic and sees the effects of virus up close. The good news is everywhere you go people are wearing masks. Florida is hardly a tragedy anymore than any other location that has been a hot spot...the majority in Florida are not in favor of returning to locks downs.
Rubes are slowly realizing they're on their own and it's very real that they could die. You are falsifying information!’ Protester yells at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during press conference On Monday, during a joint coronavirus press briefing in Miami-Dade County from Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez, a protester stood up and began yelling at them for their handling of the pandemic. “Shame on you! You are an embarrassment!” shouted the protester, in a moment he captured on video. “We’re getting record-breaking cases every day, and you are doing nothing! You are falsifying information and you are misleading the public!” “Over 4,000 people have died, and you are blaming the protesters!” he continued, as staffers accosted him and began to lead him out. “You guys have no plan, and you are doing nothing! Shame on you! Shame on both of you!” DeSantis has repeatedly come under fire for being slow to enact public health measures in Florida, which has seen cases explode after coronavirus restrictions were lifted.
I think both you and Clubber are correct. Some very dumb moves were made by Governors, and the medical community is learning more every single day while improving treatment of those who are sick. Cases going up while mortality rate is in check or going down is fantastic news and should be reported as such.
At this point it is very clear to any rational person that the DeSantis administration is deliberately falsifying and hiding COVID data to drive his political agenda. Let's take a look at just some (not even all) of the examples: The DeSantis administration has refused to share data with medical university researchers and put every possible obstacle in the way of researchers obtaining the data. At this point none have. Obviously researchers would double check the data presented in the Florida COVID portal. Th DeSantis administration cut off COVID data being provided to first responders across the state until a large outcry from sheriffs and the media demanded it start being provided again. The state portal formerly posts hospitalization data on the GIS website. In early May DeSantis gets questioned about the data at a press conference because the data completely disagrees with his assertions. The next day the creator of the state portal is told to take down the hospitalization data. She resists taking down the data and is removed from involvement with the website & fired the following day. In other states when the governor's administration was caught providing less than accurate COVID data -- they took measures to correct the problem when the media shined a spotlight on it. In Florida, DeSantis simply doubled down on driving his re-open political agenda while continuing to both provide deliberately inaccurate data and hiding data --- all the while crowing what a great job he was doing. Sadly some posters on ET still believe that "DeSantis is winning". In a public health crisis - transparency in data is critical for maintaining the trust of the public in government. Protestors at a press conference screaming "You are falsifying information" are an obvious example that the public has no trust in DeSantis.