COVID-19 CRISIS: Florida Continues to Rise While Politicians Twiddle

June 19, 2020 Leave a comment

Florida’s Department of Health on Friday morning confirmed 3,822 additional cases of COVID-19, setting another daily total record high since the start of the pandemic. The state now has a total of 89,748 confirmed cases.

FL breaks another single-day record with 3,822 coronavirus cases | Miami Herald

The local politicians, especially Mayor Gimenez of Miami-Dade County and other local mayors, and Governor DeSantis, have failed citizens by not taking COVID-19 serious. They also seem to have taken more seriously the status of business and with indifference to workers seeking unemployment and other benefits.

Filed under Coral Gables, COVID-19, Florida

COVID-19 CRISIS: Forced Labor Politics

June 18, 2020 Leave a comment

The results of current GOP policies is to force workers prematurely back into the work place to the advantage of business, but not of labor.

  • The GOP Senate and POTUS has fought against further recovery benefits for the most needy American families and workers: cutting SNAP benefits, cutting medical insurance benefits, pushing cancellation of Obamacare,
  • Recovery spending has ended up in hands of the largest corporations;
  • Black and brown workers have a unfair share of infections and deaths;
  • State unemployment programs haven’t worked to meet all applicants. A seriously bad example is the state of Florida that has failed to approve many applications.
  • GOP reluctance to increase taxes for the wealthy to pay for the worker benefit programs under the false premise of alleged excessive borrowing by the Federal government;
  • GOP unwillingness to provide substantial funds for states to cover their costs for emergency response, paying for essential workers, implementing mitigation measuring, and making up for lost revenues;
  • Limiting health liability for some corporations forces their workers back to work in the face of the companies’ failure to implement even weak OSHA regulations.

Filed under Coral Gables

COVID-19 CRISIS: Miami-Dade County Looking Bad

June 14, 2020 Leave a comment

There is strong evidence here that the social and business opening of Miami-Dade County, the City of Coral Gables and the State of Florida has been a failure in mitigating the COVID-19.

In a rush to get business going, and instead of having an effective economic buffer through unemployment insurance and small business loans and subsidies, workers cannot stay at home. This is the fault of government.

It is time to delay reopening or we will be in trouble very soon.

Filed under Coral Gables, COVID-19, Florida

COVID-19 CRISIS: Florida Politicians Ignore Reality

June 12, 2020 Leave a comment

Shows that the COVID-19 cases are rising as testing arises. There were hidden cases that are just being discovered.

Florida politicians at all levels–state, county and municipality–are driven exclusively by political and business interests.

Florida is forcing people back to work against their rights by not paying unemployment benefits.

Florida politicians should be standing and yelling out for people to use masks and follow social distancing now.

Filed under Coral Gables, COVID-19, Florida

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