[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Bigben007

Have you seen the amount of visitors in the Villages lately? People are on vacation! Wait until you see the Village numbers in 2 weeks.

YES. Because our village is small and just off the beaten path of 466 we have a front porch view of "white golf cart* traffic" as they come and circle our group of 54 homes. Last night husband and I counted six "offlanders" in an hour. We call them "looky-loos". That is NOT uncommon in the high season, but it is unusual now in the summer.............

*Usually a white golf cart signifies a rental. But not always........

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

So far there have been 1041 cases in Lake, Sumter and Marion counties combined.

The combined population of the three counties is about 585,000. That's .0018% of the population.

I'm not sure why this particular are seems to have such a low infection rate, but I'm beginning to be less and less concerned about this virus.

[17362]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Two of our Cincinnati friends died two weeks ago of Covid-19. Two of our friends from Country Club Hills were hospitalized with it after eating with a group of ten at Orange Blossom Restaurant on St. Patrick's day. Waitress had a "cold".

If you are over 65 and if you want to live longer, stay away from crowds and wear a mask. It isn't a hoax. Over 114,000 people in the U.S. are dead that were alive before St. Patrick's day this year.

I am so hoping for a vaccine and then I find out about those who think that is some sort of a conspiracy. I am beginning to dislike some old people.

I agree and we are with your thoughts 100%

[dewilson58]

Went past City Fire in Brownwood last weekend.....the outside was packed.

[dewilson58]

A lunch......no social distancing.

[Nucky]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I don't want to die just now. My maker says I have choices. People who are older make up most of those who die and they die a horrible death, alone. I do not live in fear, but I am staying home. Husband fetches groceries and things wearing a mask. He continues to play golf, riding alone and keeping a distance. We have folks who love us and they think it is the right thing to do. How bad is it to stay home and swim in the pool and paint pictures and clean closets and cook and watch some nice movies and British T.V. with two very fun and enjoyable people?? I am indeed blessed. I am so sad for those alone.

ZOOM is the answer to bring a little joy to those who are alone. Once it's set up its a breeze.

I feel like I'm was getting a little braver and have knocked my new found bravery down a notch. Calm down. This ain't over yet.

I'll be first in line for the Vaccine if needed. Never made it into the Service so maybe I could contribute like that. I'm blessed to.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

A lunch......no social distancing.

Spoilsport

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Florida reports highest single-day total of coronavirus cases

Why the spike?

Lot's of reasons for the case increase, what I'm interested in is the hospitalization rates. If that is going up then we have a problem. Far as I can find, nobody is reporting on that.

[NoMoSno]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Lot's of reasons for the case increase, what I'm interested in is the hospitalization rates. If that is going up then we have a problem. Far as I can find, nobody is reporting on that.

This site shows the number, but not a daily graph.
ArcGIS Dashboards

[charmed59]

Originally Posted by NoMoSno

This site shows the number, but not a daily graph.
ArcGIS Dashboards

If it helps, as of 5/3 Sumter had 41 hospitalizations. One was added 5/10 bringing us to 42. We gained three last weeks when we also added the 8 new cases. Since then we are steady at 45.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by charmed59

If it helps, as of 5/3 Sumter had 41 hospitalizations. One was added 5/10 bringing us to 42. We gained three last weeks when we also added the 8 new cases. Since then we are steady at 45.

I'm curious to know the amount of testing the local folks are doing...and how it compares to say, a month ago?

[chet2020]

Originally Posted by Robbie0723

Yes, but A better metric, percent positives, doubled the past week from 2% to almost 5%, not a good direction...

Good point, and to add, several states are doing more testing, and the number of positives is declining nonetheless.

[chet2020]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

As we have seen, the media picks and chooses which states they want to portray as doing a good job or a bad job on virus control. Even though Florida has managed the pandemic much better than New York, it gets attacked in the press repeatedly.

Now they are running stories about spikes of cases in various states and appear to put the blame on reopening too early. Comparing graphs of new cases in Florida and New York gives a better understanding.

Florida

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Look at that huge spike! 2500 new cases in one day!

New York

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Look how good New York is doing, they've gone down from 12,000 new cases per day to 2000, great job!

I don't know if the Florida spike is an anomaly from backlogged tests or if its a sign the virus is resurging. If it's a resurge I would certainly take a look at huge protests that have been taking place for past two weeks as a source for new infections.

There has been no big spike in Sumter County, 4 new cases in past week. There also haven't been any huge protests either.

Seems to me you just did a masterful job arguing that NY is handling the outbreak better than Florida.

[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by chet2020

Seems to me you just did a masterful job arguing that NY is handling the outbreak better than Florida.

New York has ten times Florida's death toll from Covid 19, 27% of all US covid 19 deaths have occurred in New York.

• U.S. COVID-19 deaths by state | Statista

So that's a big negative on NY handling the pandemic better than Florida.

The point of my post is that New York handled the pandemic so badly that dropping to 2000 new cases per day looks good, in Florida 2000 new cases is a large spike.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

I'm not sure what the population of The Villages is and I'm not sure if anyone actually does. I recall it being reported as 130,000 a few years ago before south of 44 opened. I'm guessing that it has to be around 150,000 now.

But either way, there have been 82 cases reported in The Villages.

Now some people say that only a percentages of the actually infections are being reported. Some say that the report number is only about 10% of the actual number of cases.

If that's the case, we're looking at 820 cases out of a population of somewhere between 130,000 and 150,000 people. That's between .0063% and .0055%.

I'm beginning to be less and less concerned about this virus.

I do wonder why some areas have like NYC and Miami have such high infection rates and other's like The Villages, which has a pretty high population density has such a low rate.