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OrlandoDem2

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3. Make no mistake. They will keep pressuring for face to face instruction.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 11:17 AM

Jul 2020

There is strong evidence that the state surgeon general is silencing local health departments. It was reported on news that he Palm Beach health authorities were told to shut up after initially telling the school board it’s not safe to open.

In Orange County, Dr Raul Pino has gone silent and the OCPS school board is too spineless to act without hearing specifically from him that it’s too unsafe to open.

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At the rate that Florida is filling up their hospitals with Covid patients, [View all] Baitball Blogger Jul 2020 OP

DeSantis will try to hide this too? . . Iliyah Jul 2020 #1

If the hospitals get full, the local press won't play with De Santis. Baitball Blogger Jul 2020 #5

Herd immunity was their policy all along. They just aren't saying it. OrlandoDem2 Jul 2020 #8

"Just live with it" SoonerPride Jul 2020 #10

You're right. Pushing a policy without explaining their reasoning. Baitball Blogger Jul 2020 #11

+1 uponit7771 Jul 2020 #16

Here's the website started by the public health official fired by De Santis bunny planet Jul 2020 #2

Thank you. Baitball Blogger Jul 2020 #6

Make no mistake. They will keep pressuring for face to face instruction. OrlandoDem2 Jul 2020 #3

We are going to need our local news reporters, like never before. Baitball Blogger Jul 2020 #7

There is no compassion in politics - Goonch Jul 2020 #4

Heard a study found, of FL kids tested, 1/3 tested positive. Hortensis Jul 2020 #9

I saw that report. That one was valid. Baitball Blogger Jul 2020 #12

Figures that bad news like that would be. nt Hortensis Jul 2020 #13

K&R for the post and the discussion. crickets Jul 2020 #14

A parent should not be required to risk harm to their child. lpbk2713 Jul 2020 #15