Sumter County Issues Stay-at-Home Advisory
 

Sumter County Officials have issued a stay-at-home advisory in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. The advisory will remain in effect through April 30, 2020. Citizens are advised to remain indoors except for these cases listed by the Sumter County Board of Commissioners:


Health and safety: If you need to tend to the health and safety of family or household members, including pets. Some examples include seeking emergency services, getting medical supplies or prescriptions, or visiting health care professionals.

Necessary supplies and services: If you need to get essential supplies for members of your household, including your pets, and/or need to deliver supplies to others. This can include making a grocery store run, getting household consumer products, or obtaining products needed to keep households sanitized.

Outdoor activities: Exercise is advised, but only when practicing social distancing protocols provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for COVID-19. Some good examples of individual activities include walking, running, biking, golfing, etc.

Work: If it is necessary for you to leave to get to and from work.
To care for others and religious needs: If you need to care for a family member, friend, or pet to provide spiritual support.

Additional steps of personal responsibility: It is advised that residents take additional steps that involve:

Practicing washing hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds after being anywhere public, or after coughing and sneezing.

• Avoiding touching your eyes, nose, or mouth when your hands are unwashed.
  
• Avoiding contact with anyone who is sick.
  
• Practicing social distancing by making sure there is at least six feet between you and other people.
  
• If you are sick, stay at home.

As of noon today, Sumter county had a total of 49 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The age range is between 18 and 92 years old, with 13 people hospitalized.

Click below to read Sumter County's State of Emergency Declaration.

It's a stay at home advisory, not an order, That's according to that news source
Steve

yes, & it's really no different than we are doing now.

Maryland, Virginia and DC have Stay-in-Place ORDERS in effect. FLORIDA is a hot spot. Gov. DeSantis, where are you??

Agreed. If you read the declaration it says it is an advisory...meaning there are are no teeth attached to it. Still a good idea though and many of us have been doing that anyway so it doesn't change much for most of us.

Not sure it really changes anything. Extends current advisory to end of April

If we physically distance, sanitize what we touch, wash our hands, don’t touch our faces...what is left to do?

Stay home.

What an expert has to say about social distancing:

https://elemental.medium.com/hold-the-line-17231c48ff17

You can golf? I don't think that is staying at home.

Duh, this is exactly what we’ve been doing anyway?? Golfing and biking. Going to the store. That’s about it. County officials must be getting bored also? Feel the need to state the obvious!

Which until it becomes an order with threats of enforcement and fines will not get done any better than it is today which is inconsistently and with far too many violations.

Why didn’t the Governor do it for the whole state ?

I believe there is a stay at home advisory state wide.
Steve

[QUOTE=Jdmiata;1737555]Why didn’t the Governor do it for the whole state ?[/QUOTE

He has said he won't do this. It's very difficult to enforce.

What do the orders prohibit? From what I've read nothing changes in Virginia or Florida's advisory from what people are doing now. I haven't read NC's.

Orlando News says its an order
 

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. – Sumter County, which has 51 cases of COVID-19, issued a stay-at-home order Tuesday that will remain in effect until April 30.

The order was added as an extension to a local state of emergency that was already in place, a county official said.

The area was already under a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., although residents can travel to and from work at that time.

He just had a baby

Thank you. Excellent read.

"In contrast to hand-washing and other personal measures, social distancing measures are not about individuals, they are about societies working in unison. These measures also require sustained action before results are evident. It is hard (even for me) to conceptualize how on a population level ‘one quick little get together’ can undermine the entire framework of a public health intervention, but it can. I promise you it can. I promise. I promise. I promise. You can’t cheat it. People are already itching to cheat on the social distancing precautions just a “little”- a short playdate, a quick haircut, or picking up a needless item from the store. From a transmission dynamics standpoint, this very quickly recreates a highly connected social network that undermines much of the good work our communities have done thus far."

I live in Pine Ridge. Lake County

How can our Governor not make rules(laws) for the entire state and not just south Fl....all golf courses should be closed statewide(I am a golfer).

Just cant believe people are not doing this already, but there are those that need to be lead by the nose to do anything.

With a little research. My God!! IT'S NOT AN ORDER!!!!!

Sumter County, FL - Official Website | Official Website



Steve

The president issues guidance, it is up to the governor to mandate the rules for the individual states. Most Importantly, it is up to ADULTS (us) to Adhere to those guidelines. I find it incomprehensible that we actually require someone in authority to mandate our daily routines to ensure safety for ourselves, our loved ones and our neighbors. It is called personal responsibility.

Stay away from all the people at LSL sitting shoulder to shoulder drinking and coughing on each other. Very selfish behavior.

Stay at home, but allow trips to the grocery stores! I have never seen the grocery store parking lots so full! But those same people that go every day to the grocery store, bitch about people golfing. Just because you use up 1 can of beans, doesn't mean you have to go out and buy another! Stay Home! Go to the store once a week like before!

Means nothing.
Those who do not care about anyone else will continue to run around at will.

To late
 

My opinion,
In the next few months to a year there are going to be a lot of empty houses in the Villages as the Virus spreads through-out the area.

Seems to be a repeat of history of the Spanish Flu, if you read the the story, only difference is we don't know the end of our story yet.

The Spanish Flu took two years to end and left over 50 million people dead worldwide.
Enjoy your Golf and Parties.
God save us all.

See post #38

I do believe you, but I have not seen the curfew hours in writing for Sumter County Florida. There has been some confusion because Sumter County Georgia has written curfew hours. I just have not seen the Florida notice.

Excellent article.

everyone should use common sense and stay in as much as possible; doesn't matter if it is a law or not--it's a matter of staying healthy. at least when we look out our front doors or windows or sit on our lanais we see beautiful houses and landscaping, we really shouldn't complain about staying home. Gov. DeSantis is doing a wonderful job and he is all but getting on his hands and knees and begging the people of NY not to come here and now begging us in Sumter County to stay home as much as we can. no one was prepared for this so no one has definite answers or solutions, we can only speculate what to do and hope it helps.

Beautifully put.

Spanish flu
 

At the time of the flu in 1918 there were no antibiotics. Medical practices included blood letting and enemas. We are in a different world.

Look up the word advisory. Fancy word for recommendation. We have been recommended before and some people still don't get it. This is not going to change anything unless it can be enforced. That can only happen with an order and authority given to enforce

Blood letting in the US in 1918 , I don't think so, could you imagine going to a hospital and the doctor doing that lol.
If the antibiotics are working why are thousands of people dying?
Be lucky you don't live in Spain.
If you are 65 and older they are now removing the ventilators and giving sedation and the patients die, why are they doing this because they don't have enough ventilators and are giving them to the young Spaniards so they will live. The doctors are fighting against doing that. How is that for a reality check.
As you know we don't have a vaccine and probably won't for a year, hopefully have one before the second wave.

Antibiotics don't work on Viruses. This is much more serious than any health emergency I have seen in my life. Ebola was very serious as well and people were allowed to come to this country infected. It has taken awhile for everyone to grasp it, to get it, to try to understand it and we still don't know how long it will last or whether it can reinfect. As you said, the one thing that can help us we don't have yet and that is a vaccine to immunize against it. We have no anti-viral and the Malaria drug is still just really being tested. I haven't heart a valid thumbs up for it yet. All we can do is stay away from anyone who could be carrying it to us.

Cruise
 

And now there are two Holland America cruise ships heading for Florida to disembark hundreds of sick people and 4 dead into the Florida community. I think the Governor has his college fund paid for in full, lol.
PS they are mostly Foreign nationals, per the Governor.

Advisory
 

Walking and running and going to store is not staying at home either but if you practice social distancing it is okay.

I don't understand all this nonsense that people don't know what "Stay at home, wash your hands, 6' distance when have to go out" means. Are you folks dumb or just want to die by suffocation from the pneumonia you'll get!?! Catch up on the stuff you need to, go thru your junk and throw it out, garden around your home, write memoirs for your grandchildren, learn another language online, order an instrument on line and then take music lessons online, sing in the street, go for a drive and just enjoy the sights and then go home without stopping anywhere, BUT MOST OF ALL, ISOLATE YOURSELF OR DIE. This is not tough, you're just stupid, dumb, arrogant, self-centered, think you're entitled, or compliant. Now go sing the song, "Stay the f...k at home."