So here are DeSantis and his goons telling everyone to stay home

[malaise]

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Suddenly it's safer at home. Weeks too late - fuck all of you. Sounds like a Con clone. There is not one authentic bone in this creep's body.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Hope that someone gets him for endangering public health...these idiots need to pay the price...

for such bad decisions, instead of seemingly getting a free ticket (political office) to do dumb crap and then get away with it, like the idiot in the WH. Just because you're in a political office, it doesn't allow you to shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not get charged w/ assault.

[malaise]

2. He's talking about rapid tests

[lark]

7. Fuck that BS.

They have strong limits on the testing stations, they will do no more than 250 a day. Rest get sent home and told to try again the next day. Still, at least there is miniscule testing going on here, better than none at all which is what most places have. Even with those insane RR limits, our infections have skyrocketed to 5000 due to the limited testing being allowed. Think how bad it would be if they stopped those asinine restrictions!

[malaise]

10. Now he's talking about their new baby and the high the bassinet

that you must all buy. JFC!

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Matt Gaetz and Ron De Santis were raised in the same family.

Matt Gaetz is the reckless one. De Santis is the brown noser.

[malaise]

14. The worst thing about this one is that he speaks really quickly when he's lying

He's speaking faster than the drivers at Datona Beach.

PHEW - it's over - all spin and lies to hide how he bought into the hoax shit

[TrogL]

25. It's called a Gish Gallop

Spout bullshit so fast you can’t respond before the next piece of crap hits the floor.

[malaise]

26. Thanks for that

[gibraltar72]

4. Controlling the message didn't work. Now he has to belatedly try to control the disease.

[malaise]

5. What disturbs me is that no one will call them on their BS

He can ace the "Lie like the Con course"/

He thinks he's the best governor on this virus.

[gibraltar72]

9. Banning the press from a briefing was a big mistake.

[jimfields33]

6. Florida has 60 deaths. Yes 60 too many

But considering New York went over a thousand with full quarenteen, we must be doing something to keep deaths at bay. Even if testing is lower, that wouldn’t change the number of deaths. You still have deaths test or no test.

[uponit7771]

8. They're not testing

[jimfields33]

11. Well they are but probably not as many a day that they should be

[uponit7771]

12. +1, I should say there per capita testing is very low

[jimfields33]

17. No doubt.

[Roland99]

32. Testing per day shown in the chart on page 2. This PDF is updated daily by the FL Dept of Health

https://floridadisaster.org/globalassets/covid19/dailies/covid-19-data---daily-report-2020-03-30-1013.pdf

Labotory testing for Florida residents and non-Florida residents over the past 2 weeks
These counts include the number of people for whom the department received laboratory results by day. People tested on
multiple days will be included for each day a new result was received. A person is only counted once for each day they are
tested, regardless of whether multiple specimens are tested or multiple results are received.


meh...here...made a screenshot and cropped it to the testing charts.

Link to tweet

[jimfields33]

35. Thank you for this!

So much good info on the truth of the virus. I am visual in education. I’ve never been able to get a full picture by listening or in a lot of cases reading. I definitely get the picture with grape, charts and break downs of county. Thank you again!!!!

[Roland99]

43. You could have lots of fun in Excel with the nationwide source data

https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/us-states.csv

only goes thru 3/28 as of now

[LiberalArkie]

39. What the heck is "Labotory testing"?

[Roland99]

42. FL edge-you-muh-kashun

[Pacifist Patriot]

46. Quest and LabCorp running the tests through their private companies instead of the FL Dept of Health

The Dept of Health testing numbers get updated faster. The Quest and LabCorp numbers lag behind by a number of days (weeks?). It looks like historical data keeps changing since they appear to be updating positive results based on testing date rather than when results are reported. I think. It's really hard to tell. I don't know the exact methodology there, but I've been following the FL Department of Health dashboard closely and their numbers are screwy and a moving target.

My husband had a blood draw this morning at a LabCorp laboratory. The staff there told him a) they had no tests at their particular facility, b) wouldn't be allowed to test anyone who wasn't a healthcare provider or 65+ WITH symptoms if they did, and c) their labs that are doing testing have to send them to Miami (three hour drive from here) for processing.

It's a travesty and an absolute shit show.

[MichMan]

29. You have to test to determine if someone is dead?

[uponit7771]

30. No, test to determine is someone is dead from CV19.

[gibraltar72]

13. Only recently have they done serious testing.

it is coming different states lead. Others will follow.

[HotTeaBag]

15. That would be awesome, but chances are the virus just hasn't had a chance yet

to fully sink in.

Once it does (again, if it does but hopefully not), then the numbers will go up - and unfortunately because of how much time has passed with very little done state-wide, way up.

[lark]

16. Wrong, testing limits the deaths by limiting the people walking around infecting others.

No tests means more people dying, it's really just math and logic. We are not doing anything right here at all, stupidity is reigning supreme. The only reason we aren't NY or NO is - 1 - no mardi gras or huge event bringing in hundreds of thousands, 2 - we don't travel as much as NY, not nearly as cosmopolitan or international in nature, we don't have their density. Besides, this is still early days, don't count your chickens yet. Spring breakers, to the extent they stayed instate, could still really increase the infections over the next couple of weeks. I hope we don't get hit hard and am practicing social distancing but that's all we have at this time with the refusal of our governor to protect us and no protective gear available anywhere.

[jimfields33]

19. You don't need a test to drop dead.

If the virus was en mass then the hospitals would have run out of ventilators and we’d hear about deaths more then we are. I’m not saying it’s great but we don’t have the issues other states have.

[lark]

24. The area we live in is a medical hub so we are much better positioned than most.

It's not the states is smart, it is just something that has been established for the last 50 years. They have to be someplace, and for SE GA and NE FL, we are it. I think the same thing exists in Miami but not positive.

DeSantis has done nothing to keep us safe, and you can't count on luck in the absence of safe practices.

[Hortensis]

27. Jimfields, epidemiologists are very worried about Florida.

Don't mistake delay of a wave for its potential size.

The state has exceptional numbers of high-risk people, the over 65s tied with ME for #s 1 and 2 at over 20% of the population. High risk of dying. High risk of protracted ICU stays. GA, our home state right over the border to the north has 13+% over 65.

And of course lots of travel into the state.

We're wintering in FL, and everyone we actually know (mostly elders) says they've been mostly sheltering since relatively early, so worried older people may mitigate numbers a bit. BUT, Trudeau only warned Canadians they needed to return home or risk not being admitted 2 weeks ago (!), and we'd heard that snowbirds were going home early at most 2 weeks before that (mostly Canadians worried about being trapped into exceeding the out-of-country time limit on their healthcare), which would be after 2 months of unhindered virus spread, with a third month to come. So far.

[malaise]

18. full quarenteen

OK then

[jimfields33]

20. Screw it. I tried to get the right spelling but it gave me a no word available.

Everyone knows what it means.

[not fooled]

31. A lot of the infected

went back to other parts of the country, after spring break.

[dalton99a]

21. Florida governor blocks Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times from coronavirus press conference

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article241591161.html
Florida governor blocks Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times from coronavirus press conference

A reporter for the state capital bureau operated jointly by two of Florida’s largest newspapers was denied access Saturday to a press conference by Gov. Ron DeSantis detailing the state’s latest efforts to contain one of the largest outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in the country.

[malaise]

22. Fuck him

He knows he was dead wrong - literally

[spanone]

23. taking his cues from the reality-host-in-chief

[DarthDem]

28. He's a Republican, All Right!

[donkeypoofed]

33. ALL the red dots on the Fever Map indicate FL in trouble!

LA was a close 2nd with NY State being 3rd. The Kinsa Health fever map has its digital thermometers upload fever to them with the location. Usual flus and colds are filtered out to show only 'unusual sickness" and FL has it bad, really bad. The results should be showing up in hospitals any day now.

[malaise]

34. I warned my family that it was going to be bad

They are ready and they are all at home

[obamanut2012]

36. No he isn't -- it's only for the SOFL counties who didn't vote for him

The rest of the state, except for Orange County and a few others, are still doing whatever they want.

[malaise]

37. Very interesting

These fascists are something else

[obamanut2012]

41. Highest percentages of infections in other counties

Beaches and businesses still open in areas with higher death rates. Live in Jupiter PBC? Just drive a few miles and do whatever you want in Martin County, then drive home and infect people. It is insane and obvious.

[BamaRefugee]

38. Exactly...how are so few people NOTICING THIS?

[obamanut2012]

40. It is shocking to me -- there are more deaths outside of here

In the state. Collier County, Orange County, etc. Sumter County has the third highest rate per capita, but that's the Magat-loving The Villages, so......

[Pacifist Patriot]

44. They aren't telling the state that and consequently, neither is my red county.

DeSantis issued a "safer at home" advisory for SE Florida.

We continue to lag the nation in testing and my county finally came out this afternoon and admitted in a press conference that we're lagging the state in testing. Hey, if you can't be first, be last, right?

They did confirm we have community spread so we should continue social distancing...but hey, the beaches are open...except at the municipal beaches that aren't.

Florida is a powder keg about to explode.

[malaise]

45. Frightening

indeed