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Gil Dobie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:30 am The Covid solution is still a work in progress.

SDHornet wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:17 pm

kalm wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 5:29 am

SDHornet wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:17 pm

Which scientists said that?

SDHornet wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:19 pm

SDHornet wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:27 am Anyone check on FL COVID case and death rates lately? Weren't they all supposed to be dead by now?

SDHornet wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:27 am Anyone check on FL COVID case and death rates lately? Weren't they all supposed to be dead by now?

Gil Dobie wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:59 am

SDHornet wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:27 am Anyone check on FL COVID case and death rates lately? Weren't they all supposed to be dead by now?

I mentioned a week or so back, thay Florida was improving. Active cases have dropped almost by half. Down to around half a million now.

Gil Dobie wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:01 am

Gil Dobie wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:59 am

I mentioned a week or so back, thay Florida was improving. Active cases have dropped almost by half. Down to around half a million now.

My sisters neighbor in Florida, still hospitalized, going into week 12. Learning how to speak and walk again.

SDHornet wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:35 pm Thread on vax passports in Lithuania. Where in history have we seen this before...

SDHornet wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:23 pm We ShOuLd VaX kIdS tOo

kalm wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:50 am

SDHornet wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:35 pm Thread on vax passports in Lithuania. Where in history have we seen this before...

Gil Dobie wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 4:53 pm My Uncles sister has Covid, give last rites today. She's in her 90's.

Also a co-worker is out of the office with Covid this week. He's around 30, so should be ok.

SDHornet wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:57 pm Hey JSO, you still buying into the "horse paste" narrative?

UNI88 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:43 pm

Gil Dobie wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 4:53 pm My Uncles sister has Covid, give last rites today. She's in her 90's.

Also a co-worker is out of the office with Covid this week. He's around 30, so should be ok.

Wouldn't your uncle's sister be your aunt?

It’s doubtful even DeSantis himself would claim he’s the reason Florida is recording so many fewer COVID cases today than in August. The virus, we’ve known for some time, comes in waves — waves that ascend, peak and ultimately recede on a remarkably consistent timeline.
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Either way, the DeSantis argument acknowledges all this. Waves of infection are inevitable — and Florida tends to suffer in the summer, when the heat and humidity force people indoors, his proponents say. Insisting on precautions like vaccines and masks won’t stop these waves. So what’s the point of continuing to infringe on people’s freedom?

There’s a certain logic at work here. One day, experts predict, SARS-CoV-2 will become endemic, spreading seasonally around the globe in ever-evolving variations that might make a lot of people feel ill for a few days but are ultimately much less damaging and deadly because everybody has some degree of immunity through vaccination or prior infection.
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As a result, letting the virus rip without encouraging precautionary measures such as indoor masking and universal vaccination remains a very risky proposition. In DeSantis’s case, he has effectively discouraged such measures, going so far as to tweet about monoclonal antibodies — an expensive treatment that helps only after you’ve gotten infected and potentially transmitted the virus to others — 30 times more often than vaccines. And in addition to banning mask requirements, he’s seeking to reward those who resist vaccine mandates at work with unemployment benefits and, in an effort to get anti-vax police officers to move to Florida, $5,000 bonuses.
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And the bottom line is that this summer in Florida, people did not do as well as they should have. Why? Because far too many of them died. The raw numbers alone are staggering. In all of 2020 — before vaccines essentially eliminated the risk of death for most recipients — 23,384 Floridians died of COVID-19. Now nearly as many — 21,000 and counting — have died in the past four months alone. And another 135 Floridians are still dying, on average, every single day.
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In the end, policy can do only so much during a pandemic. But leaders like DeSantis do have some power to encourage or discourage safety measures, and some responsibility for the behaviors they help to normalize (or not). Their supporters can give them credit for declining case numbers if they choose. But they’re also accountable for how much damage each wave of infection leaves in its wake.