Comments on: Escambia Has Record High 155 New COVID-19 Cases And One Death; Florida Smashes Daily Record With 8,942 New Cases

By: Diane Bryant

Diane Bryant — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 21:26:03 +0000

I love northescambia.com for the news that they post. Wonderful site.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 13:26:14 +0000

Our Govener is just as smart as the President let’s wait until so many people get sick and so die . When is enough going to be enough for him to take action it seems like the money and economy is more important but if everyone is sick and we lose our people the economy is no good . We all need to pray for our country

By: Be nice

Be nice — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 06:21:18 +0000

Wearing a mask is better than being on a ventilator! If you don’t wear a mask and get sick do NOT seek help.

By: Freedom

Freedom — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:58:41 +0000

The odds are much higher that you will be assaulted, raped, burglarized or murdered in this county than get seriously ill or die from Covid. Just putting things into perspective.

According to NorthEscambia.com:
The number of murders in Escambia County increased 12 in 2018 to 27 in 2019, robberies increased from 293 to 337, aggravated assaults were up from 1.769 to 1.828, and burglaries increased from 1,769 to 1,828.
Rapes decreased from 224 to 186, larcenies were down from 7,203 to 6,724 and motor vehicle thefts slipped from 679 to 650.
The clearance rate, the percentage of crimes solved, improved from 31.9% in 2018 to 32.5% in 2019
Of the 27 murders in 2019, 24 were in the county and three were in the City of Pensacola.

By: Gary R. Goodrich

Gary R. Goodrich — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:05:54 +0000

Here it is a pandemic and you have people saying I am not wearing a mask until I am forced to wear one? Stay at home if you do not want to be near non masked people? I have your names on my list of people I want to visit if I catch the CV 19……….

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 23:54:00 +0000

REGARDING:
“Mask are nothing but an idea that sounds good but no data to back it up”

There is some truth to that. I haven’t seen anyone say, “Wearing this mask will reduce your probability of spreading SARS-CoV-2 to someone three feet from you by 27.3% for fifteen minutes of exposure,” (or whatever) or, “That mask will completely eliminate any risk you will give or get COVID-19.”

There are too many variables. Different materials. Different weaves. Different exposure times. Different breathing rates. Different fits.

To actually gather the data, you would have to have several thousand infected people wearing assorted masks and several thousand uninfected people standing in front of them. Then see which ones got infected. Human experimentation. Anything less is a projection and a guess.

For that guess to be reasonable, you might have people who were not exposed wear assorted masks and see how many droplets escaped through the fabric or around the sides versus how much came out without a mask. Even then you wouldn’t know if a single droplet would have enough virus to infect or what minimum number was required.

Without that, you’re still guessing. Does that mean you know it wouldn’t help? No.
The National Institutes of Health did an approximation back in 2012 which showed there should some protection with some methods approaching 100%. They suggested further testing but I don’t see where anybody listened.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306645/ (Figure 7)

Should you assume because you don’t know to three significant figures how much good it would do that you shouldn’t bother? Some think that way.

By: DK

DK — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:59:47 +0000

Mask are nothing but an idea that sounds good but no data to back it up none zero.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:37:36 +0000

Please stop going to dine in restaurants. People think restaurants are better than bars? Even with masks and social distancing, employees are still getting sick, make minimum wage, don’t have health insurance, and are not allowed to call out. Especially with so many people not going back to work, restaurants are short handed and many restaurant employees are currently waiting on results because their coworkers have tested positive. Several of the positive results recently have been restaurant employees, but dining rooms are still seating because people are going out instead of taking it to-go. We appreciate your patronage and you spending your hard earned dollar with your favorite restaurant, but we have families, too!

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:03:14 +0000

Some of those who do not die ARE sick 70 days or more.
Some never knew they were infected, symptoms were so mild.
Many bet on winning the one in 302,575,350 chance to win Mega Millions; millions lose.

The rough odds of winning the COVID-19 “lottery” are at least 1 – 127,211/1,055,801 or 0.8795, 88% roughly. (1- (dead in usa divided by recovered in usa) ). More will recover, more will die. 431 have lost, died, today in America. 649 lost yesterday. 812 lost two days ago.

Your chances of winning with COVID-19 are much higher than of winning the lottery. The difference is that you lose a dollar or so when you lose the Lottery, whereas you lose your life if you lose with COVID-19.

As Harry Callahan explained while pointing his .44 Magnum at the gentleman, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” And remember, it isn’t just pointed at you.

David for Clint Eastwood

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:36:55 +0000

Due to greed for money to open the beaches, bars and restaurants…. here we stand with the increase of Covid!