You Can't Make It Up
 

First the Village Newspaper had the Covid-19 virus daily numbers on the front page, then they were moved to "The Local News Section A5"and now they are buried on page A8 in Local News.The numbers shot up today and god forbid if this got out to the potential buyers in the Villages and had them wait to purchase. It appears that maybe making it more difficult to find the numbers will keep more unaware including current residents of the risks in the Villages. Where the heck are our values??:ohdear:

The pandemic has been declared vanquished
 

According to a leading politician's list of scientific accomplishments during his term the pandemic is over. So, yes the numbers are going to be less prominent for the reasons you mentioned.

Well our values are split in two...some have values that claim a rally is a super spreading event...that same side claims that protests with 10's of thousands is not...the other side says be vigilant and follow the covid avoidance guidelines and use some common sense....one side is trying to scare the heck out of you by flashing certain statistics in your face everyday....the other side says, "yes it's happening...don't freak out and follow the same guidelines as before...calmly"...because panic accomplishes nothing.

So the good, safe and civilized values are being suppressed...while "the sky is falling" values are being shoved down our throat. Easy peasy.

Please stop with the hysterics. The daily numbers are in the "State News" section, which seems appropriate, and are highlighted in green and are hardly "buried". Their summary for today, by the way, appears to be wrong. The latest numbers can be found at the Florida COVID-19 dashboard.

Experience

Why you would depend on the Daily Sun for such information when the dashboard is just a click away is hard to fathom. By the way, the positive test rate for Sumter County yesterday was very low: 9 positives out of 489 tests or less than 2% positive. When you remove the numbers from the two prisons in Sumter, the County is doing very well. Asserting some sort of conspiracy about The Villages so they can sell more houses is just looney-tunes.

This is a political post and should be removed by the people in charge!

This is a political post and should be removed by the people in charge!

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3 more days. 3 more days and the ToTV sniping should hopefully lessen. No matter which guy wins.
That's good news.
The bad news will be, as in 2016 - the anger, disputes, law suits, endless "news" coverage, and IMO CERTAIN unrest from much of the populice for weeks. Very concerning as I believe the Media will fuel much of it.

Hang on folks.
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These journalism schools should be closed and prospective journalists should be taught they report the news not make it up to suit their wishes.

As they say: "From your lips to God's ears" but sad to say in 3 days it is only going to get worse. Not only here but all over the country if the expected happens

why bother trying to track the covid-19 numbers...just play it safe

I don't track the daily DJIA or NYSE numbers either...I just try to make decisions that I feel are right for me

OR...we could realize that we as the older population have the option to lay low until a vaccine comes and turn our head when people who are not as much at risk resume their lives. There is another REAL issue; the economy.

We cannot forever dole people out. The economy was booming, everyone who wanted one had jobs, due in at least part to the embargos on China and the tax cuts to big business allowing them to return to American soil to be competitive and engender thousands of jobs to people who then fuel the economy and then taxes don't have to raised for ANYBODY. The economy and big business are not BAD words. They put food on the table and buy health insurance.

I do so love thriving capitalism, even though I very much believe we are having a Pandemic.

There is NO easy answer and sometimes no answer at all for problems. When you get old enough, that wisdom hits you.

My kids in DC track the numbers and will use that info in deciding when it is safe for them to come here.

I'm not turning back the clock tonight, I don't want one more hour of 2020....j

Which will or has affected the numbers. Opening the squares, churches, 100% capacity restaurants, the return of snowbirds all month, or The Rally at the polo fields? Not as high as many expected with all 5 possibilities now in play. I think we're doing pretty good and as noted above, take away the prison numbers and we are doing very well.

Hey that's great news. Five fewer of you will die in the next month. I'll be celebrating for sure.

Here's some more awesome news: if you're the lucky fella who gets to catch COVID and NOT die, you're most likely to spend the rest of whatever months or years you have left, having trouble breathing, and going in and out of hospitals for heart failure. I'm totally excited to hear about that. I'll lift a glass in your honor tomorrow.