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Originally Posted by Bobcuse
I am surprised that nothing is mentioned about this mini spike, almost like it not really a news event, but after sitting at 70 cases steady for the past month or so a 10% jump in 3 days is concerning. I fully understand that more testing will yield more cases but this seems strange. I just wish some contact tracing information showing locations of these cases could be accessible to maybe indicate where these people have been recently.
It's certainly not time to panic but it's not comforting just as we expand the reopening of restaurants, etc and a large percentage of people don't bother to protect their fellow residents by wearing a mask even in busy stores. For those of us who are at higher risk for whatever reason, people who don't bother to wear masks while in stores or churches to protect others in case of a cough or sneeze will compel us to continue staying home.
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The numbers are misleading, per a discussion I had with the editor of the Daily Sun around May 18th 2020. Sumter County population is around 132K +.
The Actual Villages count is around 123K + including Marion and Lake counties. For statistical purpose they refer to The Villages as Sumter county. The 132K + is where they talk about growth in our area.
If you break it all out, you have 865,117 people in Lake, Marion and Sumter counties. As of May 19, 2020 there were 729 total confirmed covid cases in the tri county area. That represents 0.0008426% of the population OR 99.99916% without covid.
At that same time there were 252 confirmed cases of covid of which 118 were in prison in Sumter county. So for Sumter county of 132,420 residents the covid cases outside of prison were 0.0010119 % and 99.99899% without covid .
I know one can say that not all were tested. , That is correct but that is our government hard at work as it is!
If your fears are high it is best for all concerned to stay indoors until such time you are comfortable resuming life amongst the population.