Comments on: How Many People Have Recovered From COVID-19 In Florida? Officially, Zero.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:26:08 +0000

@ElijaBell. Leftist agenda? Desantis is a Republican. And he’s trying to keep someone happy. People might feel differently about opening up the state if they had that data. Florida has one of the highest percentages of people over 65, so it’s likely the number of those infected and the number of deaths is higher than they want to report. I think we will be alarmed when we find out. Hopefully, this crisis puts many of those facilities under scrutiny.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:25:23 +0000

REGARDING:
“An average of 7,500 people die everyday, so that’s 450,000 for 2 months. Why are people making a big deal about this virus?”

Partly because right now 8,347 are listed as dying today (6,996 yesterday). More than all other deaths from all other causes in the world on average.
(From https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ )

Partly because the death rate may soon go up even higher as the virus spreads to other places. Individually because individuals are dying. (Unlike the one who said he wasn’t worried about it when only Chinese were dying.)

Partly because we dislike needless suffering and dying of friends and family — and even of strangers. (Unlike the one who said he wasn’t worried about it when only Chinese were dying.) These weren’t people who would just have died today regardless. It is killing them and us, mostly us older folks but even children, young people, sailors otherwise healthy.

And there’s the point driven home that if another one turned up tomorrow, we would be just as unprepared to stop it.

David for better people, with hearts

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:14:17 +0000

One reason for retesting is to help determine if people can get reinfected once they’ve had the virus. The places that have prolific testing will be ahead of the curve. Sadly, the US is busy dealing with conspiracy theories while doctors and nurses are cobbling together medical supplies. With the number of retirees in Florida, we need to get this right. While even some elected officials are ready to open up the state for the economy’s sake, we aren’t even getting stats on nursing homes, etc. Our state’s economy relies heavily on retirees and tourism. We need to protect both by proceeding cautiously. That requires much more testing.

By: BILLY RAY

BILLY RAY — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:53:21 +0000

An average of 7,500 people die everyday, so that’s 450,000 for 2 months. Why are people making a big deal about this virus?

By: Amazed

Amazed — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:53:36 +0000

Frank, do you think in the last month that only 8 people in Escambia and Santa Rosa county have died period? If any natural cause death is listed as Covid-19 don’t you think those numbers would be much higher. Sometimes you just have to think logically before you speak.

By: Nancy Sprenz

Nancy Sprenz — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:08:47 +0000

Why can’t we send trained people to pregnant mother’s homes to safely give birth at home so baby and mother are safe and sound?

By: FRANK

FRANK — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:59:13 +0000

Normal flu death went down

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:11:24 +0000

REGARDING:
“I heard people aren’t dying from natural causes, heart attack, etc. anymore. Now its just covid-19″

You heard wrong. My aunt died of an aneurysm unrelated to COVID-19.

David for truth and healthy people

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:06:50 +0000

These comments are confusing. It is hard to tell from them if SARS-CoV-2 is right-wing or left-wing, just that it must be one or the other.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:25:49 +0000

You dont really need to retest. Just go ask people. We can assume that a significant number of the 10,000 people who tested positive a couple weeks ago are fine now. Ill volunteer to follow up with the 200 cases in my county and preserve their privacy. Just give me the names.