Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

@channingcrowderhungry mentioned there will be an update later so maybe that will clear things up. The press conference created more questions than it answered honestly.

 

Isn't SE florida the most populated part of the state?

 

i know this might be out there a little, but does this remind anybody of germany in the 1930s when neighbors turned in neighbors to save themselves?

 

uhhh, yeah that's out there. Basically the police will show up and tell them to stop doing it, not send them to a concentration camp.

 

Not even a little bit.

 

so with the number of domestic abuse/deaths and child abuse/deaths sure to rise, the police are going to look out for 5 people playing frisbee in the park against lockdown orders?

 

Coast Guard: Cruise ships must stay at sea with sick onboard

Cruise ships are on their own.

 

Yes. In jacksonville it's one specific team of officers that respond.

 

point being people who live in glass house telling on others to divert attention to themselves, thus leading to more and more telling, thus tying up needed law enforcement on smalltime things rather than important ones.

 

I honestly have no idea where you are going with this. This is far from Nazi Germany. Moving on.

 

i am talking about people with nothing better to do than think they are doing a public service by telling on people who may just go to the park for exercise, my point being also that jacksonville may have the law enforcement capabilities to devote some to nothing but these type of complaints, smaller communities do not have that, thus need to limit the number of complaints they investigate.

 

When Trump announced this was happening I truly thought I had mistaken about this administration, and it was great that they had been working behind the scenes to get this rolled out across America. Turns out that was an aspirational announcement, not an announcement of what they were prepared to do.

Major retailers have opened only 5 drive-thru testing locations, none available to the general public

 

That's kind of sick. The critical patients should at least be evacuated. It's reasonable for less severely ill people to be asked to quarantine, but how long before it's "safe" to disembark?

No government should have been allowed to "turn away" cruise ships. All ships should have simply been required to dock at their scheduled destination, and then deal with the passengers accordingly - whether that means quarantining them on board at the port or processing them some other way. That ship going from Brazil to Chile should have never been allowed to be rerouted, we should have threatened them with severe sanctions for not taking the ship.

Since we are just talking about a few ships now, seems pretty crazy they can't figure this out.

 

I arrived at UF in 1975 from Cheyenne Wyoming.At that time the whole state had about 300,000 people.Lots of open space.Taven Bryan also came from Wyoming

 

I visited Casper, Wyoming for work once. I would definitely live there. It's my kind of people, like the opposite of people from Miami.

 

Didn't we used to have a monster lineman from Wyoming in the recent past? Bryant? His dad used to post on GC as well.

 

If there are limited resources then I'm sure the police would leave the scene of a "gathering of more than 10" to go investigate the "armed robbery in progress". They will prioritize.

 

Taven Bryan, the Wyoming Wild Man. Now on the Jaguars, and not performing very well

 

maybe, but in alot of domestic/child abuse cases every minute counts, so why spend it on a neighbor vs neighbor petty dispute?

 

Because this is a very important thing to enforce (unless you're in the "this is overblown nonsense" group). If one of these idiots get sick: A) they can potentially pass it on to a more vulnerable person putting a life in danger B) They can get seriously ill themselves which would take up resources for somebody else if hospitals get overwhelmed. This isn't just Nosy Nancy ratting on her neighbors for loud music at 10:01 PM.