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Originally Posted by tophcfa
So, entertainment at the town squares were closed when the pandemic was under much better control than it currently is. Fast forward, the pandemic numbers have never been worse, and a massive influx of potential Covid spreaders are migrating south. Then the seasonal influx of high risk children and grandchildren visitors will follow. People from all over the country will be flying to Florida and converging on the 55 plus community that has been relatively safe during the slow season, where the older and more vulnerable full time residents generally take appropriate precautions. Despite this, starting next week the town squares will go back to business as usual, like the pandemic doesn’t even exist, WTF?
Could there possibly be a worse time to decide to open everything back up? I get that the powers that be need to sell all the houses they are cranking out, and it’s hard to sell houses without being able to showcase the Villages experience. But this could backfire in a big way if the Villages Covid numbers spike, which they most likely will. Not only that, but all the new houses they are trying to sell will have to compete with all the new pre-owned homes that will go on the market vacated by unfortunate Covid victims.
OK, all the Covid deniers, let me have it, I can deal with it.
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Don't want to let anyone "have it", AND I MAY WELL BE WRONG....but since when were children deemed "High Risk" ???? Everything I have read, seen, and heard is the exact opposite ! Also, we'll argue this forever, but do you, or anyone, feel threatened sitting outside listening to music and having some measure of "normality" to your life ? I doubt (but again .... I would not know, just a "gut" feeling) those "vulnerable" residents you mention (which would be those in sheltered care residences, nursing homes, etc. all over the Villages) probably will not be the ones going to the squares anyway, they KNOW their risk and that is why the probably moved to a more secure living arrangement to begin with. I just don't believe it is dangerous to have some music and normality to life, but I am NOT an "denier", but some of the things assumed on here just make no scientific sense at all: "clouds" of concentrated virus that "hang" in the air waiting to infect people, as one person mentioned ! Air is 5 gasses (I believe that is still true ?), quite a magic trick to get those 5 to stay stationary and lay in wait for victims ? Someone on here has a tag line about trying to understand some people is like trying to SMELL a color or a number.... THAT is right on ! The "logic" some apply is truly baffling !
Again, not giving you an argument, but do you seriously think the dying from Covid is really going to go to such horrifying levels that there will be that there are going to be nothing of vacant homes on the market ? And, WHERE could those fleeing GO to be "safe ? This is like the middle ages I guess ? I am probably the one who is naive !