DeSantis considers new strategy in Florida coronavirus fight: isolation shelters

[FM123]

(Miami Herald) As Florida’s confirmed coronavirus cases climbed toward 800 on Saturday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he’s considering his most drastic move yet: Moving certain people at risk to isolation shelters.

DeSantis said his administration might put those who test positive for COVID-19 or show symptoms of the disease in shelters, such as abandoned convention centers or hotels, to prevent them from returning home and infecting those they live with.

It would be a dramatic change in strategy toward combating the spread of coronavirus, which has killed a dozen people in Florida.

For weeks, state and federal officials have encouraged people to stay home if they feel sick. But China, where the outbreak started, discovered that sending sick people home causes family members getting sick as well, DeSantis said.

The country has found success by instead isolating in hotels and other sites people who don’t require hospitalization. For the first time since the outbreak started, the country reported zero new local infections of the coronavirus this week. (Read more)



https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241401496.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Put them on cruise ships at sea.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. I wouldn't want to be on a moving ship if I were sick.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I meant anchor the ship off shore to prevent anybody breaking isolation.

[Blue_true]

10. Those ships are massive.

I was on a big auto transport ferry once thst had a restaurant and casino. I get sea sick easily, but had no issue on that ship.

[Sugarcoated]

19. Don't they recycle the air, similar to planes?

[Roland99]

2. As soon as the first TraitorGOP Governor issues a "Stay at Home" order statewide, the dam will break

All states so far have had Dem governors

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Is he going to force them to separate?

Seems it should be the family's choice.

[spinbaby]

6. Things are bad there

A nurse I know in Orlando tells me the hospitals have way more Covid-19 patients than are being reported and that many are intubated and not expected to survive.

[ret5hd]

7. If they are a registered republican, put...

them in the same type of chain link pens they use for immigrant children.

[emmaverybo]

8. The virus expert that Maddow interviewed suggested this, isolating those who test positive but don't

need ICU care. Dormitories, hotels, gyms could be used and asymptomatic or moderately affected
folks monitored and given supportive care as needed. This way they would not infect their families. And I would add roommates, fellow shoppers, clinic visitors etc.

He suggested too that those needing hospital be sequestered in a different wing or floor so that
non-infected patients are not at risk. Also that when health professionals care for Coronavirus positive patients they wear full gear, shedding it when they go treat non-positives, donning and casting off under a watchful eye.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/failure-to-identify-isolate-coronavirus-infections-puts-u-s-on-dark-path-80951365903

So, though the guy is a Republican, he’s on to something.

[blitzen]

11. Really I think he's just trying to rationalize his inaction up to this point. n/t

[emmaverybo]

16. I don't care what his political motives are. And I do know he has put many at risk, probably doomed

many to death. My only point is that he is right and it would be great if more people with any control over the crisis were thinking the same.

[blitzen]

9. Florida (i.e. DeSantis) is a goddamn disgrace and will have thousands of deaths to account for. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

12. After they send all of the newly infected spring breakers back home. n/t

[renate]

18. EXACTLY

He’s closing the barn after half of the infected horses are out of it and galloping across the country.

His inaction, his personal responsibility, will literally cost hundreds of lives at an absolute minimum. Probably thousands.

[rockfordfile]

13. DeSantis should resign

[keithbvadu2]

14. Mar a Lago is available.

Mar a Lago is available.

[thecrow]

20. I like the way you think

[lpbk2713]

15. Leper colonies?

Will they be sent there to die?

[FM123]

17. I would certainly consider going to an isolation hotel

if I tested positive but wasn't sick enough for hospitalization. My house is not big enough to keep all my family members safe away from me and it would break my heart if they got sick because of me.