California had 33,000 cases yesterday.

Anonymous wrote:On November 25, FL Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order that bans local governments from enforcing mask mandates. People are not wearing masks here. They know they can’t be told to, so they don’t.

My family is back to grocery delivery because it feels so unsafe to be out with so many people not masking indoors.

Once again , you are wrong. Gov DeSantis made an executive order stating he would preempt any fines and punishments confined to local rules. Most FL counties have mask mandates and there is a mandate in my county. I wear a mask everywhere I go and also see everyone else wearing masks. So I’m confused as to why you would say what you said ..???

Will just the sheer number of daily cases mean we reach herd immunity at some point? Perhaps?

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Anonymous wrote:they're also at fewer cases per 1M than NY, NJ and VA. nearly the same as MD

it is ignorant to cherry pick data and intentionally provide no context.

Which is absolutely insane, right? In Maryland, we view ourselves as mask compliant and Florida as COVID deniers. It is possible that they are hiding data, but the data we have puts Maryland in the same realm of COVID spread as Florida.

Given the weather that allows people to interact outside, FL could be doing so much better than MD. it’s really unfortunate that the warm states aren’t taking more advantage of their weather.

+1 on this. We in NE are sitting here and waiting for snowstorm and at least have some excuses. I guess crappy leadership cancels that weather advantage.

I’m guessing that people who don’t care about the virus like many in Florida also don’t test as frequently as areas of the country where they care about keeping the virus contained. I’m in a city that voted for Trump and we had a 90% positive test rate the other day. 40% today. Not enough tests given and many who don’t believe in testing.

Florida does not care.
Restrictions are minimal, as is mask compliance. My relatives near Orlando have been going to public events like farmers markets, parades, zoos, eating out at restaurants in large groups, attending weddings and baby showers, even the annual gala for the fire fighters and their spouses still took place. I am always seeing posts of crowds with no masks in sight on their Facebook feeds.

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Anonymous wrote:they're also at fewer cases per 1M than NY, NJ and VA. nearly the same as MD

it is ignorant to cherry pick data and intentionally provide no context.

Did they send armed men to the house of anyone collecting COVID data?

They would if they were illegally accessing state computer systems.

Anonymous wrote:they're also at fewer cases per 1M than NY, NJ and VA. nearly the same as MD

it is ignorant to cherry pick data and intentionally provide no context.

What is with the obsession with Florida? There are only about 40 other states doing worse right now per capita, including MD, and DC isn’t far behind.

http://www.91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=Florida&show=us-states&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=Rhode%20Island%2COhio%2CDistrict%20of%20Columbia%2CNew%20York#states-normalized

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Anonymous wrote:they're also at fewer cases per 1M than NY, NJ and VA. nearly the same as MD

it is ignorant to cherry pick data and intentionally provide no context.

Did they send armed men to the house of anyone collecting COVID data?

DP, and the NYT data clearly show that FL is middle-of-the-pack right now. It can be true that people there are handling covid terribly, but also that numerically it's doing surprisingly ok. They're testing ~100K people a day, too, so not too terrible considering the number of positives (that's around an 11% positivity rate, which is bad, but not abnormal in the US right now). Also, what high-profile politicians do <> what state health departments do, FWIW. There's a lot of bluster from the top but the foot soldiers are usually the same, boring bureaucrats they always have been.

I think people in DC need to get out to, say, rural MD or VA and see that there's a lot of covid denial right in your own backyard.

I drove my snowbird sister down to Florida last week and it was horrifying how no one gives a damn about the virus.