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: FL Open No Matter What

May 18, 2020 Leave a comment

There are no clear data that confirm that Florida and South Florida are opening because of medical-scientific reasoning, but rather due mainly to political logic (GOP Governor, Friend of Trump; GOP Miami-Dade Mayor running for Congress), strong business power broker pressures and urgent needs for income of low wage workers, who are being forced back to work by the failed Florida unemployment insurance system.

Filed under Florida

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

CONVID-19 CONVERSATION: Florida and Cities–Open or Not?

May 15, 2020 Leave a comment

“UNLESS THE CORONAVIRUS IS OVERCOME WE WILL CONTINUE IN A DEPRESSION ECONOMY” (Jeffery Sacks, MSNBC interview, May 15)

Local governments, including Miami-Dade County and its municipalities, the City of Coral Gables (@citycoralgables) are applying relatively nonspecific, weak, general criteria to open businesses without the benefit of a strong current public database.

None of the rules is prescriptive enough to guide business behavior in opening up. Rather they are a basis for future trouble in overcoming the coronavirus. At best the rules are a conglomeration of many different proposed criteria. To this date Miami-Dade county has been incapable of publishing opening guidelines.

This picture will ensue from the near-term opening:

  • There will be a push to reopen business, placing health protection on a secondary plane;
  • Infections and deaths will increase, which is the true cost of returning to business operations and increasing tax revenues to local governments;
  • The community will weaken social distancing and mask-using behavior;
  • Small businesses–hair salons, small gyms, small stores, restaurants… will operate at a dangerous edge of coronavirus hygiene and protection for its employees and customers;
  • Local authorities will find it hard to enforce social distancing and masking.

Filed under Coral Gables, Florida, Miami-Dade County

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