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Old 04-21-2020, 03:27 PM
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Sprawling retirement community has at least 68 residents positive for Covid-19; ‘an opportunity for it to take off’
By Arian Campo-Flores for The Wall Street Journal
April 17, 2020 8:00 am ET


Residents of The Villages, a sprawling retirement community in central Florida, were still gathering in town squares, visiting nail salons and browsing an estate sale in late March. Only after Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order April 1 did many of the holdouts hunker down, residents and officials say.

The delay in adopting social-distancing measures could haunt The Villages, a fast-growing metro area of more than 128,000 people whose older age makes them especially vulnerable to Covid-19

So, are we going to have a surge or not?
If there is a surge it will be because a lot of people are coming here from NY and other States renting following the normal migration of snow birds back North. Have you not noticed the increase in the number of NY tags in the last two weeks. You think those people are staying in their rental houses for two weeks before going to the grocery store.