Monday, before noon, Florida is already reporting over 12,600

[Ilsa]

new cases of COVID-19 per Worldometer.


But sure, let's open Disneyworld, schools, have some conventions, etc.

[SoonerPride]

1. All of Gov DeSantis finger wagging sure looks stupid now

Berating the press saying how great Florida was doing.

It's never a good look to crow about winning the marathon when you're at mile marker 1.

What a dumbfuck he is.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. They're airing his arrogant statements from May, followed by Florida's new title of having

the most cases in one day.

[Demovictory9]

7. Good.

[patricia92243]

2. Wish we had NY's governor.

[dalton99a]

3. Good business opportunity for refrigerated truck rentals and crematoriums

[malaise]

4. Florida is in complete chaos

People are terrified

[Baitball Blogger]

6. I have someone who may have to go through surgery up in New England,

and we can't even drive up because we can't drive up in one day and there are states where the hotels won't take people from Florida because of Covid.

Thank you, De Santis, for limiting our options.

[malaise]

9. He should be arrested for criminal negligence

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-trump-desantis-relationship-20200710-i5xgye3xbbevtfekwzedrngywq-story.html
<snip>


President Donald Trump delivered his wishes on Twitter in all caps with three exclamation marks — “SCHOOLS MUST REOPEN IN THE FALL!!!”

Just hours later, the Florida Department of Education ordered school districts to prepare for in-person instruction five days a week.

The state’s announcement blindsided Fedrick Ingram, who leads the Florida Education Association. He said his union representing 150,000 school employees had no formal involvement or input into the order.

He doesn’t think it’s a coincidence the order to reopen schools signed on Monday came on the same day as the president’s tweet.

“Our governor has tied himself politically to the president,” Ingram said. “We have seen that time and time again in terms of the policies he has rolled out and how he has handled this pandemic. It is unfortunate in this country we do educational policy by tweet.”

[Ilsa]

11. Can you rent a small RV?

I'm assuming this trip is extremely important for your family. A FL RV dealer may rent to you.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. I'll suggest it to my husband.

Thank you.

[Ilsa]

18. If you aren't too physically uncomfortable,

maybe you could camp, but it is warm at night, like low 70s. The heat wave isn't as severe along the US East Coast, but there would be a lot of camping spots if you travel close to the Appalachian Mountains.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Would those camping sites allow us to park overnight if we're from Florida?

[Ilsa]

8. We should all be terrified.

My church, here in Georgia in a low-outbreak county, had reopened the church for in-person services on July 5th. They shut it down again on this last Saturday, after only two Sundays.

I normally track our counties in north GA thru the state health dept website, but it's been down all morning. I have no idea how much COVID-19 is surging around here.

[malaise]

10. Sadly the lunatics are in charge

and the results are terrifying indeed.
This is what happens when ignorance prevails over reason.

[malaise]

12. 12, 624 according to Local 10 at noon

If you see cars lined up in Miami for testing.
Miami-Dade has 3,200 already today as well as the highest number of ventilators in use there. 1,459 new cases in Broward - with PPE shortages everywhere - absolute chaos.

[Mariana]

13. Florida reports new cases once per day.

There won't be any more reported until tomorrow.

[rurallib]

14. right you are

what i have been wondering is how accurate those numbers are - especially the death numbers.

[Mariana]

17. I understand it's still hard to get tested in some parts of Florida

so the number of infections is probably low. And I've never believed the death numbers from there. There have been way too many stories about officials manipulating the death counts.

[Phoenix61]

15. Yep, it's the count from the day before. nt

[Ilsa]

20. Yesterday's number was 15,300.

I know that timing is everything m, but Worldometer reset all numbers to zero by 11pm, if not sooner. I believe they use GMT.

[Phoenix61]

21. I may be misunderstanding but my point was

There is a lag. The numbers FL reports at noon are for the previous day.So today was for Sunday,