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Originally Posted by yabbadu
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.
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The numbers are even more confusing than that. Do those numbers represent the number of people living full-time in the area? Are snowbirds counted? If they're counted, well they're not HERE right now, so none of them *should* count in any kind of calculation of "percentage of people living here who have been diagnosed recently". Since they're not living here- currently.
But they were living here in March. And possibly in April. But I'm guessing with very few exceptions, they've all gone back north by now.
The population of the Villages is totally different in December, compared to July.