Spike in Villages COVID cases
 

There seems to be a recent spike in COVID cases. It appears there are approx. 100 new cases in 2 days in The Villages Sumter County. YIKES!!!
Does anyone plan to do anything differently based on these new numbers??

Really?

If some people don’t start doing something different those numbers are going to sky rocket.

If we could at least restrict new cases to those that do not wear masks. I understand they have the right to believe as the see fit and it is their right to pass on.

Nope.

We ain't caught the Chinese Virus yet so we are going to keep on doing just what we have been doing.

Easily explained.

Take a drive on any major roadway surrounding The Villages while paying attention to the "drive through, for profit, Covid testing" facilities.

The sheeple are in their cars, lined up to get the good(bad) news.

Unbelievable.

I agree with you. While there is a large day-to-day variance in the number of new cases in Sumter County, the trend for the last month appears to be flat. I don't see any evidence of a spike, at least not in Sumter County, and about 80% of Sumter County is The Villages. I also check the same dashboard website, that you posted, about every other day. I believe the number for yesterday was 18 new cases in Sumter County. Hardly a spike and pretty typical.

If you are reading information from that other website you are falling for their clickbait. Do a Google search for "Florida covid dashboard" and look at the website from arcgis.com. The data is broken down in great detail. Sumter county and the zip codes associated with The Villages are doing very well as compared to the rest of the state. Yes, there are positive cases, this has become just a fact of life these days, but one needs to look at things like the number of tests performed, positivity rate, death rate, etc. to get the entire picture. I'm not saying that there isn't a problem or concern with covid19 and that we all should not be being cautions and not take risks, it just not as bad as that other site wants to make it sound. Be cautions, take what precautions you feel you need for yourself, there is a risk and it is real, but the sky is not falling.

I studied journalism for 4 years and one of the topics we regularly discussed in every class was journalistic integrity (pretty much a non-existent concept these days), bias, sensationalism, and of course yellow journalism (Yellow journalism - Wikipedia). This was 40 years ago and most of this discussion was referring to the supermarket tabloids of the day like the National Enquirer and the like. The tabloids have moved from the printed page.

Today of course, we have the internet, and everything is fair game, you can say what you want and twist facts or pseudo facts to reflect whatever opinion you want. In this case, if you "hate The Villages", "hate the developer", "hate Donald Trump", want to hear how anything can be turned negative against the afore mentioned, or are maybe just a bored and miserable person, that other site may be the one for you. If your a fan of that site, I'd also recommend the website Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - dihydrogen monoxide info .

From the same Florida COVID 19 dashboard daily reports:
The Villages, Sumter on 11/22: 942
The VIllages, Sumter on 11/23: 1,042
In the same reports, The Villages, Marion went from 9 to 59 and The Villages, Lake 51 to 59.
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I t may just be the covid-19 weariness is contributing to a by default acceptance of the increasing rates.
Rates are up...deaths declining-not increasing....

We have remained conservatively careful for 9 months. We will continue to do so waiting for the vaccine.
We are hoping by next summer this will all be a bad memory!!

Your post is correct for the data posted on the state report PDF.

However, the daily report on the dashboard only identified 18 new cases on that day and 13 for the day before for ALL of Sumter County, so something is screwy about the data. I can only postulate that someone has been reviewing addresses of previously reported cases and added some of those to The Villages total. It will be interesting to see what the total is in today's report.

We can’t do anything different because we haven’t been doing anything for many months.
If more people did even a little something different (masks, avoiding crowds, distancing) maybe numbers would be better but I’m not sure we’ll ever know because so many are ignoring what the CDC and medical people are begging them to do right now. :pray:

We need to reduce deaths by enacting county mask mandates
 

The county commissions of Sumter, Lake, and Marion counties need to enact mask mandates now! That really should be done at the state level, but Gov. DeSantis is actually obstructing common-sense anti-COVID-19 measures.

The good news is that vaccines are on the horizon. The bad news is that mass vaccinations are even further on the horizon, and people will be dying in large numbers until the great majority of people are vaccinated.

Sumter continues to have among the lowest infection rates in the country. Even more so considering more than 30% of the cases occured in local prisions. People here so far are doing a good job overall.

Today's report: Villages/Sumter +17, Villages/Marion +2