Florida in 48 hours: DeSantis has blood on his hands

[Pacifist Patriot]

With piss poor testing protocols, over the last 48 hours our state has seen a

31.1% increase in confirmed diagnoses
35.4% increase in hospitalizations
41.6% increase in deaths

We have had 7 deaths reported in the last six hours.

Still no state-wide stay at home or lock down orders.

48 fucking hours

Confirmed cases doubled in three-days.

Three days.

[dewsgirl]

1. I feel so helpless.😔 I wish they would hurry up and lock us down.

[rzemanfl]

3. Pinellas County has stay at home, so we are a little better off.

I am trying to limit shopping to once a week and will wear gloves & mask (such as it is after sitting in the garage for nine years).

Stay away from people as much as you can.

Stay safe and well.

[dewsgirl]

8. I have been, I only go about once a week. You stay safe

and well too.

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. Yeah, those GOPer politicians are masters of common sense.

And Trumpy is their Pope. They get their common sense from HIM.

Just do what you can. There's probably enough community consciousness about the virus that you can travel in narrow paths to stay within safer parameters than in other places. Best of luck.

[dewsgirl]

12. I am trying, you too.

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Here's one disgusting anecdote because of a lack of lockdown orders. It will enfuriate you.

My county is governed largely by tea party assholes. So we have no municipal, county, or state issued stay at home orders that cover our area.

I have a pregnant employee whose OB issued a quarantine advisory to her and her entire household two weeks ago. My company immediately authorized telework (actually, I had been advocating she do that for more than a week prior to that).

Her husband's company, even with the doctor's note, is refusing to authorize him to work from home.

And to make this even more heinously evil, he has a job that can not only be done effectively from home, but when he travels for work he is required to do his job remotely while on the road. But apparently doing it remotely when he is not on business travel is forbidden.

And to top it off, they are still having some of their employees travel domestically and come right back into the office upon their return.

Thank goodness for the Families First Coronavirus Recovery Act (FFCRA) going into effect tomorrow. Hopefully he can leverage it to apply pressure to his employer even though the Act does not compel employers to authorize telework when it is feasible. That's a key weakness in the legislation by the way.

I'm so disgusted and frustrated on her behalf.

I cannot tell you how many people I know who plan to immediately initiate a job search when all of this is over because of how their employer responded to this crisis. Unresponsive dispassionate irrational employers are going to pay the price down the road with a horrific employee value brand.

[dewsgirl]

29. I really hope everything works out for your employee.

It's all so infuriating.

[AtheistCrusader]

37. There are divorced co-parents in this situation.

I've already had a couple friends share that their entire household was infected by way of the ex insisting on having the kids on the regular schedule, and then going to work.

If one parent can WFH, they should have temporary extended custody. This is, after all, a fucking emergency.

[cilla4progress]

50. This has been a big debate in the legal community here.

There are lots of ways to stay connected by technology now.

[Tucker08087]

47. That is really terrible.

I hope they stay safe. I’ll imagine them all surrounded by a protective bubble. May they avoid sorrow, pain and hardship in this most trying time.

[cilla4progress]

48. Please virtual hug your employee

for me! You sound like an outstanding boss!!

[Volaris]

24. Nope. You're going to have to self-quarantine; voluntary stay-at-home..

Sadly, it will be another 14 days before your Gov. issues the actual orders...

But if you do it yourself, it might be the case that some co- workers n friends/associates get the message, and do the same.

(On Edit)...

If I were a cynic, and looking for a job in the healthcare field with retirement in mind, I would be hitting up Indeed.com for jobs in florida...because I've been taught Infectious Disease Control, and beaches...and you'all are gonna need healthcare

[Loki Liesmith]

2. We may find the natural doubling time of this disease in Florida

Absent intervention.

And it’s natural R0.

[GopherGal]

33. Other states...

have seen doubling time around 3 days early in their outbreaks. That's around 26% increase per day. Sometimes I've seen daily increases well into the 30's. A two-day doubling time would be 41% increase per day.

And 10-fold increase should take 3.3x the doubling time. So a 2-day doubling time means tenfold increase in about a week.

[beachbumbob]

4. will get much worse in coming days and weeks when it takes root in the over 55 communities/condos

[Eyeball_Kid]

11. DeSantis presumably knows his state's demographics.

It's wildly irresponsible to be intensely aware that huge swaths of Florida's population are in the vulnerable age range, and do nothing to protect them.

This should guarantee that DeSantis will be rubbed out at the next election.

[beachbumbob]

17. we will see wide losses of GOP seats and offices for years to come I hope

[Pacifist Patriot]

20. I have my hopes this will shift election results soundly for generations to come.

[EarthFirst]

6. Florida is a free for all...

My folks live in The Villages.

I speak with them about every other evening. My mother works for the Hospice network in Florida; so she travels quite a bit.

The main gathering areas in TV have been closed off to the public; however the golf carts line up; they pop open their chairs and commune in large groups all day long. The golf courses & clubhouses remain open. The clubhouses that have shuttered to the public; the gentlemen simply gather in the parking lot and socialize and imbibe.

My father; trying to limit his exposure to the outside gathering groceries says Publix; WalMart; Target all have crowds like any other day. Couples shopping together; grandparents with their grandkids; etc.

They just aren’t taking it seriously. The government nor the general public.

Florida is in for big trouble. Soon.

Be safe out there...

[beachbumbob]

19. we cut our wintering in Florida in our RV short by 6+ weeks and got back to Illinois

where at least out Gov is doing all he can. No way I want to be in Florida when this hits hard

[OrlandoDem2]

31. I hope your parents aren't the typical right wing Villager.

And if they are, I hope they see the light.

[dhill926]

7. ya know...we were planning on moving to Key West in a couple months...

still plan on it when all this is over. But man, California is a much better place to be right now...

[EarthFirst]

10. They Keys are one way in; one way out...and in has been shut down.

Might be the safest place in all of Florida in a few days...

[Pacifist Patriot]

18. As EarthFirst said, the Keys may be the safest place in the state.

Monroe County has been responsive and can easily isolate given their location and access to the rest of the state. I'm not sure what it means for their supply chain, but they can definitely keep visitors out easily enough.

[dhill926]

46. yep..been keeping track of the situation....

hopefully we'll make it after hurricane season...the Keys are delightfully different...

[SergeStorms]

56. Well, safe from COVID-19....

but underwater in 10-20 years from global warming. If republicans don't endanger your lives one way, they'll do it in another.

[shockey80]

9. It was inevitable Florida was going to get hard because of their idiot governor.

[Phoenix61]

13. In FL there's a local, all men's club.

which had a party with 70 in attendance March 17th, 1 day after the CDC advisory to limit groups to no more than ten. They had entertainment. Sadly, the entertainer died March 29th from covid. These are our local, elected officials and movers and shakers.

[Botany]

14. Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis a rough quote ... last night

Last edited Tue Mar 31, 2020, 07:57 PM - Edit history (1)

Gov. Ron DeSantis, "We have to see how the virus is acting in different communities."

[MagickMuffin]

23. How racist of him

"Ah, did I say that outloud?"

I think Congress is going to be doing investigations about this. That needs to happen quickly since they are now just out and out telling us they are discriminating!

[samnsara]

28. Nancy has said as much

[Cousin Dupree]

32. I believe he also said, "Florida is different from other places". You got that right, buddy!

(This was his excuse for not issuing a stay in place for the entire state)

[phylny]

16. Trump and Pence are praising him now.

Great governor, you know.

[Funtatlaguy]

21. Trump and Pence just said DeSantis is brilliant.

[OnDoutside]

22. Give it a few days....I never met the guy....

[BatteriesNotNeeded]

25. omg

that is insane. Cheering each other one for being the most stupid one in the room.

[samnsara]

26. stay safe (((hugs)))

[SheltieLover]

30. K&R

[lillypaddle]

34. Thinking about you

and hoping like hell you stay safe and healthy.

[cwydro]

35. Lockdown order or no.

Stay inside or in safe places outside.

[AtheistCrusader]

36. This is why Trump's tune has suddenly changed.

SOMEONE at the White House just woke the fuck up, and had a 'come to Jesus' moment with our orange road rage simian of a President.

[BigmanPigman]

38. Two weeks ago I was criticized for blaming the FL gov

on his inaction right here on DU. Is it OK to blame him for this now?

[Pacifist Patriot]

40. The weird thing is that he initially showed action...

and leadership a few weeks ago, but that was squelched in short order.

If I was the one to criticize you, I apologize profusely. I don't think it was me, but I did defend him for a day or two when it looked like he was going to defy Trump. As soon as he showed his true colors I switched to going for the jugular.

As far as I am concerned, blame away.

[BigmanPigman]

41. No, it wasn't you.

Someone else said it and argued that it was the local mayors' faults for not shutting beaches, etc. I said the whole state should have been shut down and that drew the ire from a fellow DUer.

[kimbutgar]

39. He will find some Democrat to blame for his ineptitude

The repuke are blameless In their minds of all the shit they have done to ruin this country.

[dlk]

42. Too many Republican governors are frozen in place while they scheme...

...how to emerge as winners on the other side of this crisis. Meanwhile, the bodies are beginning to pile up.

[Sloumeau]

43. Arizona Governor Ducey finally issued a stay-at-home order yesterday.

[link:https://www.azfamily.com/news/continuing_coverage/coronavirus_coverage/gov-doug-ducey-announces-stay-at-home-order-for-arizonans/article_47003656-720f-11ea-a513-138ee68fc7aa.html|]

This is like a game of "Idiot Chicken". Whoever is the last to lock down his or her state is the idiot, and the citizens of that state all lose.

[elias7]

55. like a game "Idiot Chicken"... good one

[localroger]

44. Why are you surprised? This is the doubling period in a population without countermeasures.

You are no different than Louisiana, you're just about a week behind us. You can double both the new cases and deaths every three days until effective countermeasures are taken. But the countermeasures won't take effect for two to three weeks on new cases, so whatever you case load is when you finally get your lock down, the curve won't start to flatten until you have at least ten times that many. And deaths lag by another 2-3 weeks, so they won't slow down for over a month.

Other than countermeasures like quarantine and social distancing, the only thing that stops the doubling is saturation of the population. In 1918 about 25% of the population got the flu, but that was a less mobile world and a disease that was fundamentally not as aggressively contagious.

[Pacifist Patriot]

57. Don't mistake fury for surprise.

[William769]

45. My county Lee

Is taking the wait & see approach.

[cilla4progress]

49. And orange heinous will come back and make points

with his cultists saying "could have been much worse, much worse."

[CaptainTruth]

51. We're on our own here.

I'm just trying to be as safe as I possibly can be.

[cilla4progress]

52. Whereas inslee got praise from none other than Dr Birx

right under drumpf's nose today at the presser.

She's not long.

[muntrv]

53. My mother and stepfather live in Kissimmee. At least Osceola and Orange County

have stay at home orders.

[Pacifist Patriot]

58. I've been watching the Orange County press briefings.

Much better than the anemic sporadic ones in Brevard. We do not have strong or compelling leadership in the best of times. And our sheriff is horrific. I developed a tv crush on the Orange County sheriff during Hurricane Dorian.

[FM123]

54. There is not one Florida.

Down here in the lower counties of Broward and Miami-Dade most of our cities are on lockdown sheltering in place during the day and on curfew at night, while up the map in other parts of FL they are still out and about. THere is no uniformity of safety standards and DeSantis won't put his foot down.

[SunSeeker]

59. There are 40 cases and community spread in The Villages now.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-villages-lake-sumter-numbers-20200331-lvhk2ifzgrcflnkjkl7x5rvmsi-story.html

[malaise]

60. He has already decided to blame New York

Madness

[Pacifist Patriot]

61. The pointing of fingers is insane.

That helps no one.