Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1865544)

From the Florida Covid Dashboard, yesterday.

New Cases Nov 24: Lake County-57, Marion County-136, Sumter County-33

Only a small portion of The Villages lies in Lake County and it includes the cities of Leesburg and Tavares. The same can be said for Marion county which include Ocala. Most of The Villages lies in Sumter County and the Federal Prison is also in Sumter County.

I would assume that the majority of these cases are in the largest cities and the prison. I would also think that only a small number of those 226 cases were in The Villages.

I have a friend whose wife tested positive. He also got test and was positive. They went back a few days later to be retested and were both negative. Were their positive results counted as new cases?

Originally Posted by Northwoods (Post 1864854)

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??

Originally Posted by lkagele (Post 1865558)

Thank you Chicken Little. If you don't like the way this State is being run then leave. As a result of these idiotic mandates more people are dying from suicide and drug overdose. Many people have been economically destroyed because of the shut downs. And after all of their genius plans and draconian rules, the virus is still spreading.

I for one appreciate living in a State where there is no government nanny telling me what I can or can't do. Open up the States and using their common sense and personal risk tolerance, let the people decide what risk they want to take.

Originally Posted by Goldwingnut (Post 1864952)

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 .

Originally Posted by JimJohnson (Post 1864863)

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.

Originally Posted by billethkid (Post 1865054)

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!!

Originally Posted by bd20166 (Post 1865525)

we have herd immunity

Originally Posted by lkagele (Post 1865558)

Thank you Chicken Little. If you don't like the way this State is being run then leave. As a result of these idiotic mandates more people are dying from suicide and drug overdose. Many people have been economically destroyed because of the shut downs. And after all of their genius plans and draconian rules, the virus is still spreading.

I for one appreciate living in a State where there is no government nanny telling me what I can or can't do. Open up the States and using their common sense and personal risk tolerance, let the people decide what risk they want to take.

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1865688)

I was interested to see if the gathering last month for the president would increase the cases. It doesn't appear to have done so. There have been seven deaths from Covid in Sumter County since that event.

I am quarantining until I receive the vaccine like many, many people. I choose science over any kind of public advice in a situation like this. I wish that the chief executive would have listened to ME. ;)

Anyway. Here are today's figures. I think it was 85 deaths when Mr. Trump came here to The Villages.

Sumter County cases
Updated Nov 25 at 11:44 AM local
Confirmed
3,341
+33 new cases.
Deaths
92

How long have YOU all heard is the incubation period. I think it is five to fourteen days?

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 1865697)

Not possible without a vaccine for EVERYONE! Sweden gave up on this concept months ago. Why does it stay in the US vernacular ?????

Originally Posted by Pairadocs (Post 1865657)

No really ! Not sure what more there is to do ? I can't make myself disinfect my mail and spray all groceries with Lysol because my formal education is not medical, but, my college level science lab experiences tell me this is NOT the way this is spread, but, I don't know any more than the rest, including our so called "disease experts". Other than those things, and wearing gloves as well as a mask all the time... I don't know what else I personally can do, and most people seem to take what precautions they can ! Should we STOP swimming ? How can it spread in chlorinated water ? Who knows ? Now in L.A. you can't eat indoors OR outdoors ! Yet, doubt that will do any good, someday we "may" find out how this really spreads, all guessing. Like the black death of the middle ages.... thought to ONLY come on the evening breezes and the solution was to stuff openings under the door at night only so it could not enter. Sort of like restaurants and bars closing at 8 p.m. since the virus can only infect people after 8 p.m., or only infect people at a table 5 feet away, but a table 6 feet is safe ? I think one day people will read about all this and laugh when they find out the REAL was it is spread ! ?

Originally Posted by Justus (Post 1865644)

The recently released Danish study clearly says Masks are ineffective. Beyond that, the Great Barrington Declaration, despite MSM efforts to deny it, shows Covid as largely a hoax. Give it a rest!