[PugMom]

Originally Posted by ficoguy

I'm getting a little weird feeling about this concept of "Corona Virus Survivors"
Are the accolades more deserving for this than prostate cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, etc?
I think there is a move to start a class action suit against the Federal Government for not acting soon enough by creating a class of victims.
Is Morgan and Morgan running any ads yet?
Tobacco, baby powder, Round Up.....this could be huuuugggggeeeee.

i hear ya!! where do i sign up??

[Lottoguy]

Squares open in two weeks? I'll take that bet any day.

[bumpygreens]

Have you noticed how many so called news stories rely on words like: could, may, might, possibly, etc...hypotheticals in place of facts. Just more of the news trying to shape what we think instead of telling us what is.
Villager Swallows Dollar, No Change Yet
-or-
Villager Swallows Dollar, May Start Shooting Nickels Out His @$$

[ficoguy]

[QUOTE=capecodbob;1748105]Sprawling retirement community has at least 68 residents positive for Covid-19; ‘an opportunity for it to take off’
By Arian Campo-Flores for The Wall Street Journal
April 17, 2020 8:00 am ET


Residents of The Villages, a sprawling retirement community in central Florida, were still gathering in town squares, visiting nail salons and browsing an estate sale in late March. Only after Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order April 1 did many of the holdouts hunker down, residents and officials say.

The delay in adopting social-distancing measures could haunt The Villages, a fast-growing metro area of more than 128,000 people whose older age makes them especially vulnerable to Covid-19

Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true.

[davefin]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Surge???.................Yes, thanks to all the golfers.

Can I assume you're not into golf? Let me tell you, it's safer on the golf courses than it is at the mailboxes.

[davefin]

Originally Posted by Choro&Swing

I read that Wall Street Journal article, and there were a number of errors. It seems to be the work of a stringer desperate to get her name in the paper, drawn from letters to editors and out-of-date statistics. In this case, surprisingly, the ************** is probably more accurate than the WSJ. The article is a bit like those trash journalism pieces from years ago that keep being mentioned about there being waves of STDs in The Villages. Turned out there were two or three more cases than usual, but still far less than Florida as a whole. But it sold a lot of newspapers. This is the real fake news, people, yet it still ends up on the television. All those people in the town squares? Most of them looked way too young to be living here. I think they were visitors from outside The Villages. But does that get reported? No.

The Villages has almost nothing but single family homes, and nearly all have only one or two people living there, and they all have room to be outdoors in the sun. Social distancing and quarantining is easy. There is plenty of room to walk and ride bicycles or go for rides in golf carts, even if we can’t swim or golf right now. This is much safer than urban neighborhoods where people are packed together. So keep your distance, keep up your courage, don’t panic, and we will get through this.

[mtlee024]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Surge???.................Yes, thanks to all the golfers.

It is safer golfing then going to the grocery stores, or Home Depot, etc. You just sound like a non golfer who can't take it that someone gets to do what they love.

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Thanks

[Poirier]

Originally Posted by npwalters

If I did the math right the 68 folks are .004% of TV population.

Well, that number could be accurate if all the owners/renters were present here in TV. There are a lot of empty houses in my area where owners/snowbirds have fled to go back to their home state. I would suspect that the total population of TV would be lower right now making your calculation a little higher......

[oneclickplus]

A surge in TV might result in more re-sales and lower prices. Maybe I'll pick up a rental property.

[john352]

It is more meaningful to state the number of cases per 100,000 population rather than just the totals.

As of the early Saturday (4/18) morning, here are the number of cases per 100,000 population:

215 USA
1,203 New York State
108 Florida
89 Sumter County
56 The Villages (73 cases & 130,000 population)

[sally2189]

They do list them every day, the number of cases and the number of deaths. If you subtract the deaths from the number of cases, you have how many have survived!

[meridian5850]

Originally Posted by npwalters

If I did the math right the 68 folks are .004% of TV population.

(68/128,000) x 100 = 0.053%

[jebartle]

Originally Posted by Gmb727

I hate when those pesky facts get in the way of a shocking headlines.

Sign of the times!!!!!!

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by PugMom

Stan, the state where i came from (Ct.) is counting deaths of people who pass away showing symptoms, not whether they actually had it.

Just maybe it's because they don't have enough tests to warrant wasting them on DEAD PEOPLE but rather those who may be walking around with it. People are also told to STAY home and not walk in to a hospital, Dr office, emergency care or emergency room if they have symptoms so think about how many aren't counted that actually do have it. I guess you also think all those that died and were stacked up in the morgue in the nursing home in Andover NJ just died of the flu or the 600 in the Smithfield plant just had a bad cold.