Schools had closed a couple weeks before, presumably out of an abundance of caution, but the state didn't until April 1st, so I am going to use that as my start point.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/01/coronavirus-florida-desantis/
From March 14th through April 1st, Florida had 96 COVID deaths. Yesterday there was 91, and there haven't been less than 45 since June 30th except for July 4th when reporting was predictably down.
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+19+deaths+in+florida&rlz=
On April 1st, there were 1,032 cases, and I remember freaking out. Yesterday there 11,143 and the governor said things were fine and we opened Disney.
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+19+deaths+in+florida
As for positive test results, from mid-march to April 1st, the average was about ten present, now it is 19.3 percent. Now some people say well if we test more, we are going to get more positives, the thing is back at the beginning we were only testing people we thought were sick and the positivity rate was about half as it is today.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florida
Let's throw in hospitals that are approaching capacity.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html
Every metric in Florida is not just worse from the first few weeks of the pandemic, but it is much worse, soul-crushingly scary worse. The positivity rate has doubled, the amount of cases has increased 10 fold, and we are seeing the same amount of deaths in a day that we had in weeks. Things are not fine.
This is an education blog, so I just want to remind people that even with masks and plexiglass shield bolted to desks, if we send students and kids back to school, it is not a matter of if but when and how many people will get sick and schools will close. This is what we are rushing back to.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/01/coronavirus-florida-desantis/
From March 14th through April 1st, Florida had 96 COVID deaths. Yesterday there was 91, and there haven't been less than 45 since June 30th except for July 4th when reporting was predictably down.
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+19+deaths+in+florida&rlz=
On April 1st, there were 1,032 cases, and I remember freaking out. Yesterday there 11,143 and the governor said things were fine and we opened Disney.
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+19+deaths+in+florida
As for positive test results, from mid-march to April 1st, the average was about ten present, now it is 19.3 percent. Now some people say well if we test more, we are going to get more positives, the thing is back at the beginning we were only testing people we thought were sick and the positivity rate was about half as it is today.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florida
Let's throw in hospitals that are approaching capacity.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html
Every metric in Florida is not just worse from the first few weeks of the pandemic, but it is much worse, soul-crushingly scary worse. The positivity rate has doubled, the amount of cases has increased 10 fold, and we are seeing the same amount of deaths in a day that we had in weeks. Things are not fine.
This is an education blog, so I just want to remind people that even with masks and plexiglass shield bolted to desks, if we send students and kids back to school, it is not a matter of if but when and how many people will get sick and schools will close. This is what we are rushing back to.
DuhSantis compared schools to big box stores like WalMart & Home Depot. Maybe a more apt analogy would be overcrowded prisons. Only at the end of 7 to 8 hours the students get to leave to spread the virus. How are prisons doing these days? Or is that still a closely guarded secret??
ReplyDeleteIf we do open schools in a few weeks we might as well open up bars, cruise ships, everything, etc. because we basically don't give a F*CK