77 Sarasota County Sheriff's Office personnel out sick due to COVID-19

[Zorro]

The Sarasota Sheriff's Office is the latest local agency grappling with a COVID-19 outbreak among personnel after staff knowingly went into work with symptoms, spreading the virus to others.

There were 77 Sheriff's Office workers out last week due to COVID-19, with 60 of those employees testing positive for coronavirus, according to Maj. Jon Goetluck. That The outbreak comes as the delta variant surges through Florida, and COVID-19 cases are up 20% in Sarasota County.

In an email Goetluck sent to staff Wednesday, he mentioned that personnel came to work sick with symptoms even after testing positive for COVID-19. He added that at least five employees have been hospitalized during the past couple of months.

"It is imperative that we all work together to stop unnecessarily exposing each other and depleting our workforce and staffing levels," Goetluck said in an email obtained by the Herald-Tribune.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/08/23/coronavirus-outbreak-hits-77-scso-workers/8239654002/

Wouldn't be surprised if there's an emerging trend of Covid cases in police departments around the country.

[marble falls]

1. Ok. We give. Things under DeSantis is worse than under Abbott. But still pretty close.

[stillcool]

2. good place to rob a bank

[roamer65]

6. Not enough money.

I need millions so I can live comfortably in Buenos Aires.

[stillcool]

7. yeah...no fun these days..

easiest way to steal a good chunk of change is to be a politician

[roamer65]

8. +1000

[gratuitous]

3. "Stop unnecessarily exposing each other"

Now there's a phrase I'm guessing Mr. Goetluck never thought he'd utter. Necessary exposures only, please!

[Haggard Celine]

5. Maj. Goatfuck is a phrase-maker.

[Haggard Celine]

4. Idiots. That is all.

[keithsw]

9. If there were only

Some type of vaccine they could have taken....

[crickets]

10. "Wouldn't be surprised if there's an emerging trend of Covid cases in police departments

around the country." - Wouldn't be surprised if you're right. They're killing themselves with their political convictions.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/five-south-florida-cops-die-in-a-single-week-of-covid-19-report/ar-AANBU66

The novel coronavirus has become a leading killer of police officers across the U.S., with five South Florida police officers succumbing to COVID-19 in a single week, according to several police departments.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/02/joe-biden/has-covid-19-killed-more-cops-all-other-causes/

Biden said that more cops have died from COVID-19 than while on patrol.

COVID-19 by itself has killed more law enforcement officers than all other causes combined, according to two groups that track these numbers.

No matter how we parsed the data — by excluding correctional and detention center officers, or by focusing on felonious deaths to officers that could be considered "on patrol" — COVID-19 posed the greatest single threat to officers’ lives.

We rate this claim Mostly True.