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Thursday, May 21, 2020

The Reopening Story in Florida

If you pay attention to the mainstream media, you will have heard over the last three plus weeks that Florida is courting disaster by reopening too soon.  Governor DeSantis opened beaches in the state except for the Miami - Palm Beach corridor more than three weeks ago.  Restaurants reopened.  Golf courses reopened.  All kinds of businesses reopened.  The crazies on MSNBC told us repeatedly that this was dangerous, insane, thoughtless, and a recipe for a terrible rebound of the virus.

I want to share with all those people just some of the figures from yesterday's testing in Florida.

A total of 55,493 people were tested across the state of Florida
There were 537 people who tested positive for the virus.  That's less than 1% of those tested who were positive.  It's a remarkably low figure.
By way of comparison, back at the start of May, Florida was testing about 16,000 people each day.  The average number of new cases (people testing positive) was 742 or just under 5% of those tested.

What all this means is that with the "reckless" and "dangerous" reopening in Florida, the infection rate shown by testing has dropped dramatically.  The MSNBC stable of "experts" and pundits were totally wrong.  TOTALLY WRONG!!

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