Dangerous and stupid. But please enjoy your hamburger.
The Florida Department of Health reported more than 200 new coronavirus-related deaths Wednesday along with 2,590 new cases. Florida has now seen a total of 690,499 COVID-19 cases.
Well, I won’t be visiting Florida anytime soon. Glad I live on the northern side of Georgia - I like a little buffer between me and all the Covid that is about to unleash upon Florida.
Ummm…“Restaurants can now operate at a minimum of 50% capacity”? Doesn’t make sense, does it? Of course it means restaurants can open with a maximum of 50% capacity, which should provide plenty of 6 foot social distancing.
“Restaurants can now operate at a minimum of 50% capacity – meaning they are fully open. Gov. DeSantis says if local governments try to restrict the reopening of any restaurant, they need state’s approval.”
2 million is what was modeled if there were no changes in behavior whatsoever. It’s not a “prediction” that was beaten that makes our response look good.
Check back in a couple months and see how the numbers look.
Phase 3 also states that bars, pubs and nightclubs that derive more than 50 percent of sales from alcohol should operate at full capacity with limited social distancing protocols.
They could have just learned the inevitable painful lesson from afar, by looking at Texas.
Or from Pennsylvania. We shut down early and came through okay and opened the bars and it all went sideways within a month. They’re about to get a rough lesson in just how important bars are to spreading this virus.