On record-breaking day, Mike Pence says Florida in a 'much better place' in coronavirus fight
Source: Tampa Bay Times
"We’re in a much better place thanks to the leadership of President Trump," the vice president said.
The coronavirus case numbers are worse than ever in Florida.
But on Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence came to Tampa with a message for the Sunshine State: Florida is in a good position to weather the storm.
“I want the people of Florida to know we’re in a much better place thanks to the leadership of President (Donald) Trump, the innovation of American industry and to the partnership that we’ve forged, not just in testing, but in personal protective equipment,” Pence said in an event with Gov. Ron DeSantis at the University of South Florida Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation.
Pence and DeSantis, along with several federal health officials, noted a handful of differences between the current outbreak in Florida and the earlier ones in New York and Seattle this spring. Treatment options have improved, testing capabilities have expanded and hospitals are ready for a surge.
Now is not the time to close down the economy again to prevent further spread, Pence said, citing all of those factors. Particularly not when the nation’s workforce is rebounding. The economy added 4.8 million jobs in June.
“We don’t have to choose between opening up America and the health of our people,” Pence said at the event.
Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/07/02/pence-on-coronavirus-cases-florida-in-a-much-better-place-thanks-to-president-trump/
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is Hannibal Lecter!
What is with this death cult administration anyway? I get that they're evil, I get that they're corrupt, I get that they're inept. But why are they hell-bent on killing off their few remaining supporters? 
These are 7 day moving averages of daily new cases
I just don't think it's getting through how bad the situation has gotten.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Daily New Cases: 7 day average (click this checkbox just below the graph)
June 9: 21,282
July 2: 47,243
+122% increase (2.22 Fold)
yup. In just 23 days.
Another grim daily new cases 7 day moving average statistic:
April 10: 32,464 - previous pre-June pandemic highpoint
July 2: 47,243
+46% increase over the April 10 peak
June 25 was the date when the April 10 peak was first surpassed. (Just a week ago!)
EarlG's graphic clearly shows the three key pertinent points about the daily new cases --
*That we're way up from the early-mid-June bottom
*That we've completely passed the previous era's peak of April 10
*That we're worse off than we've ever been, by far
From EarlG's Pic of the Moment https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017590932 :
Ever since about mid-April until mid-June, the media has been telling us the new cases have been going down in the U.S. overall, and they've been right. So we can relax and reopen, like Reagan's "Morning in America" (wrong).
Well, in just the last 3 weeks, cases have rebounded, and gone way past the old April 10 peak.
to be sacrificing lives before the alter of the dollar sign either!
Because THAT is the only thing that would make Florida a better place! 
