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Originally Posted by rphil11ort
Does anyone have the latest count as to positive test and death count in the bubble?
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How cases are counted go by counties in Florida. I would like to know too.
My first acknowledgement that it was truly here came from two dear friends, sisters, who had gone to Orange Blossom Restaurant on St. Patrick's day with a group of ten neighbors.
I didn't hear from them for awhile..and when I checked I learned that six out of the ten in the group had become sick. The waitress appeared to have had the sniffles....The two sisters live together in Country Club Hills. One became very sick and was taken to Ocala Hospital where she was in intensive care for eleven days with difficulty breathing. The other remained at home but had severe gastro intestinal symptoms and became so dehydrated that she had to be taken to VHRC here for rehydration and a friend had to come and stay with her to see that she was eating and drinking. Unless I had known her I would not have known this and it immediately made our family aware of the spread and the severity in different ways. They both had Covid-19 and have recovered from it, thank heavens.
I wish we could know the exact statistics but I imagine that there may be all kinds of emotions with revealing that information from the individuals affected.
When I first heard about this virus and read the statistics and the mortality rate for older people, what stuck in my mind was that we live in a small isolated village of 54 homes. That two people that we knew and lived close to could be dead from this. That has not happened. I must say that most people have become very careful too.
So in answer to your question, no one knows how many people have died in The Villages but records show that 67 have died in Sumter County.
Many then will leap to tell you most of the deaths have been in nursing homes and jails. I don't know.
covid 19 deaths in sumter county florida - Bing
People have already made up their minds about Covid-19. I believe that is a mutated version of a virus. It does kill, but many are in denial. It is most dangerous to people over seventy.
I am sort of an amateur student of human behavior and I have observed that people react very differently to a fearsome and deadly threat. Many deny it. Many minimalize it. Many doubt statistics. Many make it political. I know that it is still out there and killing some people and I hope and wait for a vaccine that can make it a little less threatening to lives.