[Quixote]

I recently reconnected with a fellow I had gone to high school and college with, and he has definite views on dealing with Covid-19. He recently wrote this, to which I replied with what follows. I guess we all have our own respective views—to which we're all entitled....

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He had written:

I bought the panic like everyone else, but as I am not frail, can hope that if I do get it, it will be like my annual viral nastiness. This being the case I liberated myself and to my surprise I find that thousands of other people here in the Tucson area have done the same. For a surprisingly many people here the craziness is over.


And I wrote back:

My choice is not to chance it, ... and besides, I am really enjoying this time at home! At the same time, the FL governor opened the state, and this is the result. Sad—but we all have our own self-will, and if this is the only way we will learn anything, so be it....

Florida sees largest daily number of new COVID-19 cases since mid-April | TheHill

... and this is the same story in AZ resulting from your governor opening your state:

Record number of positive COVID-19 cases reported on Friday as Arizona passes 1,000 deaths

Out of curiosity I 'ducked' the population of AZ, and this is what came up: 7,378,494. Here on community postings there are people who look at these numbers and say but that's only 0.0001355% of the population—practically nothing!; others focus on ... a thousand grieving families who've just dealt with the unexpected and terrible death of a loved one who in so many instances suffered and died without the presence and support of family because of the potential of contagion....

The governor of NY took a different approach; we follow it since we lived all our lives there till moving to FL and have family and friends there. It's gratifying to see that different approaches can bring different results:

Hard hit New York City begins reopening as coronavirus infection rate plummets

[CS1987]

The reason your seeing more cases is because there is much more testing. The number to look at imo is the number of deaths. Florida is in much better shape than New York on that score. The higher the number of mild cases the less lethal the virus is.