Florida: Spring break, thousands of elderly snow birds, thousands of tourists;

[shockey80]

They were late shutting things down, Very little testing, that is a very bad mixture. I would not be surprised if Florida becomes the hardest hit state.

[LisaL]

1. All of it a recipe for a coronavirus disaster.

[jimfields33]

3. New York with everyone going to parks and California everybody going to beach

Last weekend are no better.

[cyclonefence]

2. Any state with a lot of Trump supporters

is dispensable, in my cruel opinion. My son had to go to a customer's home the other day and told him he wasn't shaking hands any more; the reply? "Oh, you're one of those guys who hates Trump." I hope that stupid bastard (the customer, not my son) continues shaking hands until he needs a ventilator and there's none to be found..

[snowybirdie]

5. Thanks a lot

What compassion you show to your fellow man!

[Tipperary]

6. Certain states are dispensable?

Really?

Wow.

[cyclonefence]

9. Let me put this another way

People who voted for Trump in states that went for Trump can all catch cv and die. They are afaic dispensablee.

[Tipperary]

14. You seem classy.

Not to mention compassionate.

Keep taking that temperature

[mcar]

13. Well bless your heart!

Signed, an indispensable Florida Democrat

[getagrip_already]

4. not to worry - desantos is on it - well, he is on the reporting of numbers anyway.....

So rest assured the true numbers will never be known, the number tested, the number positive, the number ill, the number dead - all will be classified information and kept under wraps. The only numbers that will be released will be to support info independently revealed.

We. will. never. know.

[zackymilly]

7. I'm in NC and my new neighbors are from Olando, Florida.

They inherited some land down the road from me and recently built a house on it, calling it their "summer home", while keeping their house in Orlando too. I laugh at them calling a 2nd home in NC surrounded by tobacco fields a summer home.
Anyway, they told me they are bringing up lots of family from Florida to stay with them here. I've already seen some unfamiliar cars on their property. I'm getting to the point I'm holding my breath when I drive by their place!

[Tipperary]

15. Where are you in NC that there are still tobacco fields?

Never see them any more.

And durn, you sure do not seem in any way like the friendly Carolinians I have had the pleasure to know all my life.

Betting you are not a native.

[3_Limes]

16. Oy! The manners police.

Just what we need.

[Tipperary]

17. Bless your heart.

Bet you are not from NC either.

[zackymilly]

19. Yeah wtf. Didn't know I was being unfriendly, but w/e. n/t

[zackymilly]

18. Don't know what you're driving at..

...but if you must know, I was born and raised in NC on a farm, and live in Johnston County, surrounded by tobacco, sweet potatoes, beans, etc. I was hanging tobacco in the tops of barns when I was 13 years old. You want my street address too?

[Tipperary]

20. Uh huh.

I am sure your new neighbors must be impressed by the southern hospitality you have shown.

Seems wrong to blame a locality on a virus is all I can say.

[zackymilly]

21. Guess my post wasn't too clear.

I laugh at them to myself when they said it was their summer home, not at them directly. These 'neighbors' live about an 1/8 of a mile from me and we talk when they are out walking their dog by my place. Why I'm even replying to someone I don't know or want to know I have no idea. You sound like you're miserable. I'm done.

[Tipperary]

22. My, my.

[orleans]

23. what's with all this sacrasm?

[stillcool]

8. I've read that Floridians are blaming NY'ers..

not their government. Not the people they elect. Not the people who come from all over the world. Not spring-breakers. No...they blame New Yorkers for going to their grocery stores.

[Initech]

10. Meanwhile here in California people are screaming at Gavin Newsom for doing his job.

I want to scream "EXCUSE ME!!!!" have you seen what's going on in Florida? Gavin Newsom is doing his job. Ron DeSantis is not. There's a big difference. The only reason they hate Newsom is because he has a D next to his name.

[patricia92243]

11. Snowbirds come in the winter, not the summer. Tourist is a

whole different matter.

[lpbk2713]

12. Many will attend a big dinner or party before going home.

Then many in their condo or in the trailer park will soon be going back
and they too will have their own dinner. Then communities all along the
length of I-75 and I-95 will start to have many infections. And of course
the employees and other patrons will display symptoms in a few weeks
as well.