How is reopening working in Florida?

[Chainfire]

This week, Florida reopened all businesses; Local news headline this morning: Florida sets new daily record for Corona virus cases.

Apparently the virus has not received the memo that it has been defeated.

[soothsayer]

1. Send his convention there, please

[snowybirdie]

18. Nooooooo

We DUrs in Florida don't want all that disease coming here, not to mention the demonstrations.

[Fozzledick]

19. No, send it to Moscow. That's where they pick the candidate anyway.

[lpbk2713]

2. I need a haircut badly and it would be nice to dine out.

But neither will happen any time soon. The Covid stats keep rising every day
with no change in sight. Let the mouth breathing herd thin themselves out.

[Mike 03]

3. FWIW, the exact same thing is happening in Arizona. nt

[Lochloosa]

4. 18% increase in confirmed cases in Duval County (Jacksonville FL) yesterday.

Working as planned here.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. .

[ScratchCat]

5. We were supposed to find more cases

When we tested more. That's what everyone kept saying. Now, we are testing more, finding more and.... now the same people are trying to pretend its a bad thing that we are finding more. You just can't win with certain people.

[Hav]

12. What a simplistic view

Yes, more testing is necessary for tracking and you cannot find anything if you don't test.
And btw, from the numbers I've seen, the number of daily tests around the second half of May were considerably higher than the current number of tests but the percentage of identified cases per test is way higher. So your whole argument fails. It's not just the number of tests that influences the case numbers. Surprisingly, a contagious disease spreading is a factor as well.

[Igel]

14. No, it doesn't.

Rushing doesn't help.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florida. The last data is 6/4/20, which is what the OP's good for.

Look at the last two bars. Using press language, there was a surge and spike in the number of tests for the last couple of days--not "positive" but just # of tests.

The positive rate is higher, but not the sudden surge expected. (So the predictions were wrong--predictably, at this point, since most predictions have been overwrought.)

1point3acres continues to show that it's mostly confined to specific areas, and we'll have to see what effect this has--are they testing more asymptomatics and groups at low risk for severe symptoms so it won't result in increased hospitalizations and deaths? Specific infected networks, so there is an outbreak but it's self-contained?

That's the deal that was struck: Put the brakes on the virus to enable ICUs not to be swamped, then relax with a low level of infection and spread.

This is also just Florida, not the other states where all human life should by now have been COVID-eradicated several times over.

[Hav]

20. Your page doesn't display for me but I believe you

The site I had cut off data older than the 3rd week of May and used a 7 day rolling average which I didn't notice at first but that did hide the recent increase in testing you mentioned.
We'll see the development in the coming weeks, I guess. I don't believe we'll see a drastic change but I'd also be surprised if the changes in case numbers and deaths will be minor.

[OnDoutside]

6. I would have expected to see an awful lot more on The Villages.

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. In my opinion, we're beginning to see the impact of Memorial Day weekend idiocy.

That party weekend began two weeks ago this evening.

Here's something I posted about a beach hotel on the Space Coast that Saturday. https://democraticunderground.com/100213476342

The reopening has been expanding ever since. The only thing keeping our numbers down now is "data management," not infection rates.

[Clearly fogged in]

8. Apparently the county libraries are not considered to be businesses. nt

[Grammy23]

9. I'd like nothing more than a professional haircut. My husband needs one worse than I do.

Sadly, we won’t be visiting our regular hair dresser any time soon and I feel bad for her because she is self employed. But seeing these rising numbers of covid -19 cases makes me reluctant to go back to life as usual.

My husband made a Wal-Mart run this morning and bought a set of clippers and blades. He clearly thinks this will last a while longer. Looks like I’ll be giving him his much needed haircut later today. Mine will just keep growing (except for bangs that I keep trimmed).

I just don’t understand what the citizens do not understand about loosening the shutdown and the rise in Covid-19. Back in March they scurried for their homes as they sheltered and shut down everything in fear for their lives. Now they’re ready to have a barbque in the backyard with 20 of their best friends right after they get back from the beach. Caution has been thrown to the winds. We are well and truly f*cked if this is how they behave in spite of rising Covid numbers.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. It feels so good when a family member cuts our hair.

My son and I stay together and he cut mine for the first time a while back and it felt great. Of course, I'm a 72YO male that's not very picky but this is a great way to bond better for families.

He used a clipper set I bought for him some years back for his super-short haircut, so now I get my payback....

[Alacritous Crier]

11. RE: How is reopening working in Florida?

About like this...

[Hortensis]

15. Same-old from isolation. The big event is that

A couple very noisy frogs have taken up residence in the shrubs under our windows, one outside our bedroom, the other outside our little TV room at the other end. The rest of their chorus, and others, are mercifully scattered around somewhat farther away.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. My reckless city must be protected by a bubble...

... of stupidity.

So many people not wearing masks or social distancing, yet no reports of increased cases.

I have a hypothesis: Outsiders have no reason to visit. (I don't blame them.)

[JCMach1]

17. Record case levels and deaths in Dallas too