CONVID-19 CONVERSATION: Miami-Dade County Big Share of Infections and Deaths

May 21, 2020 Leave a comment

Miami-Dade County, which includes dozens of municipalities including the cities of Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Homestead, Hialeah, among others, has 13% of Florida’s population and 34% of proven Covid-19 infections and 28% of the state’s deaths.

Miami-Dade County is rushing to open and we will wait to see the consequences some 14 days in the future because of the current, recognized lack of extensive testing, tracing and isolation measures.

We are waiting for a final decision by the University of Miami on the Fall Semester on the manner and return of students. So far the information from the university has been a little ambiguous.

Filed under Coral Gables, Florida, Miami-Dade County

COVID-19 CONVERSATION: Fl is Manipulating the Data

May 19, 2020 Leave a comment

No doubt, FL has been manipulating data to force an early opening. Miami-Dade County politicians have been following obediently along. The Miami Hearld reported that infections in Miami-Dade are 10 times! higher than those reported.

There are no easily available Covid-19 data published by local governments in Miami-Dade County. One may wonder on what basis Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables and others are making decisions, except from political pressures, business pressures and poor workers’ pressures. Are there objective criteria like Gov. Cuomo developed for NY.

Rebekah Jones, the manager of Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard has been involuntarily removed from her position because she refused to censor some data to, in her own words, “drum up support for the plan to reopen.”

Filed under Coral Gables, Florida, Miami-Dade County

COVID-19 CONVERSATION: Opening South Florida is Missing Something?

May 18, 2020 Leave a comment

Maybe I am confused but it seems like Miami-Dade is jumping way ahead very fast without the protection and management data needed to supervise infections and deaths in the area. Looks like a political, Trumpian move.

How much testing can government really do. So far the testing has been of just coronavirus sick candidates. But testing is widely needed for employees, not just when one worker gets Covid-19.

We need wide testing for all citizens, residents and travelers to ascertain infection rates and the reproduction rate, r.

First, the opening will have the effect of accelerating the opening of carefully isolated stay-at-home family members to go shopping, restaurants, hair salons….For access to infections.

Second, by opening the business community locales “Moving to a New Normal” (Miami-Dade County) there will be an increase in infections, hospitalizations and deaths. How many? We don’t know, but there will be ones for sure. It is inevitable.

The so-called “Move to a New Normal” brings extreme danger to seniors and those with pre-existing conditions who should NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE NEW NORMAL until the benefits are certain. Where is the warning and where are instructions.

The “Move to a New Normal” guidelines and the supporting government decrees are almost impossible to follow, to understand, to evaluate and to guide one in personal protection unless you are a lawyer.

Filed under Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County

COVID-19 CONVERSATION: Not Wearing a Mask is Anti- Social

May 15, 2020 Leave a comment

Friend (with social distancing) if you don’t wear a mask in public you are threatening me and others with sickness and possible death. You are not protecting yourself, because that depends on me and others using our masks. Also, you are forcing threatened groups with pre-existing conditions and older populations, i.e. vulnerable populations, to stay at home. (More than 20% of the community in the City of Coral Gables.)

If you don’t use a mask at all times in public YOU ARE ANTI-SOCIAL.

You may take off the mask, perhaps, after almost all of us effectively have been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Filed under Coral Gables, Florida, Health

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