Reader Dano sent me this great PDF: Safe Smart Step by Step. Plan for Florida’s Recovery.
And I love how they are making fun of the gloom and doom press reports:
“We are gonna be the next New York! ZOMG!
And next, this:
We may need to regulate air travel from both North and South. De Santis is well aware and even Trump asked him if he needed to do shut down of incoming flights, to let him know. De Santis actually pushed for the Abbot 5 minute testing at airports of origin by the airlines. I have to give him props: he could have been another asshole like de Blasio or Whitmer, specially with so many elderly, but he chose the best path available to him and rode it well IMHO.
In summary is simply we are opening slowly and according to the data and not a set date. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach will have to wait a bit longer.
FLORIDA PHASE 1 (Continued)
▪ Schools remain distance learning.
▪ Visits to senior living facilities are prohibited.
▪ Elective surgeries can resume.
▪ Restaurants may offer outdoor seating with six foot space between tables and indoor seating at 25% capacity.
▪ Retail can operate at 25% of indoor capacity.
▪ No change for bars, gyms, and personal services such as hair dressers.
▪ Vulnerable individuals should avoid close contact with people outside the home.
▪ All individuals, when in public, should maximize physical distance from others.
▪ Avoid socializing in groups of more than 10 people in circumstances that do not readily allow for physical distancing.
▪ Face masks are recommended for all those in face-to-face interactions and where you can’t social distance.FLORIDA’S NEXT STEPS
Key metrics to consider as we move to next steps:
▪ The state maintains the health benchmarks of the Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step Plan
▪ Maintaining hospital bed capacity
▪ Monitoring COVID-19 test positivity rate
This does not need to take months. It will be based in our health metrics and guided by medical authorities.
Again, I am not happy that I am going to be still under the harder criteria, but I do like that the rest of the state is going to get re-started. It will help us get back on our fit feet faster when the time comes.
I may even allow me a shot of Gentleman Jim.
Clearly the goalposts have been move to “even one death is too many to be acceptable” in an effort to keep the economy shut down.
They are now to the point of No Goalposts. The Left hates DeSantis so much I am about to copyright DSDS, DeSantis Derangement Syndrome
With the exception of NYC, pretty much every state flattened the curve to major interstate grading standards.
My state went from thousands of deaths, with tens of thousands of hospitalizations, to less then 100 deaths total between now and Aug 4.
In other words. The models were wrong. Completely. Totally. Blizzard in Miami on July 4th level of wrong. Maybe the actual mathematical functions were well thought out, but the inputs sucked. Totally. Garbage in = gospel out was the problem here. Not the virus.
So, the little petty tyrants are now focusing on preventing a surge in new infections, etc… Like having an excess of five hundred in patient hospital rooms is some kind of catastrophe. Goal posts are moving so fast it no longer registers on the eye.
No doubt the models were “over-estimated” but I am amazed that Florida, specially South Florida with so many elderly living in nursing homes were not decimated. DeSantis did get medieval shutting down all visits and having the state constantly checking and upgrading training of the people working there.
We have a nursing home not very far from us, not even a mile. My fear was that I would not stop hearing ambulances coming and going from the place. So far, nothing and I hope it stays that way.
With you completely on that front Miguel. I am so glad the models were not even close to reality. Over-estimated is an understatement though. Overestimating is predicting 18″ of snow, and getting 10″. Still, better to be safe. Within reason.
What angers me is the politicians that keep moving the goal line. I was OK with restrictions, and stay at home orders to ensure the medical facilities were not overrun. But, now even with a demonstrably low hospitalization rate (in my State it is less than 10% of confirmed infected), the politicians are so reluctant to give up their new found power that they keep claiming disaster will happen with any easing. If the hospitalization rate jumped up to 100% of active cases in my City, there would still be two to three hundred available in-patient hospital rooms.
So, the new mantra is “we do not want to see a surge of new cases.” To which I have to ask is when do we stop that? Is the goal really zero new cases before we can get back to normal?
Here is how politics works:
Someone says magic dragons will eat everyone unless you wear a tin foil beanie.
The politicians make wearing of tin foil beanies mandatory.
The news media gets every so terrified of the magic dragons that you get afraid to be seen without a tin foil beanie, even at home, in the shower.
No one gets eaten by a magic dragon.
Politicians claim it was their mandate to wear the tin foil beanies that saved everyone.
Something popped into my head this morning: with the exception of Louisiana which can blame its issues on Mardi Gras, the other states with major troubles all seem to be places that are seriously into subways. NY most of all, of course, but there’s Chicago and Boston as other major problem areas. Conversely, LA is a very large city but it relies on private cars to a far greater extent.
What triggered this is the realization that NH is pretty nearly unaffected, even though it’s next to MA and the southern border is only about 30 miles from Boston. But NH has no subways at all, and not a whole lot of public transportation of any kind.
Boston outbreak seems to come from a couple of city wide celebrations. Think St. Paddy’s day parade/party.
Which ones? The Paddy parade was canceled, as was the marathon.
Yep. The Science Shows ™ that …..
mass transit kills! Stop it, for the chirruns!