Posted on 06/28/2020 9:13:14 AM PDT by karpov
As the Northeast, the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. for months, has seen steep, persistent declines in confirmed cases, other parts of the country have spiked. A month or so ago, most of the increased cases were a function of increased testing. Now, states like Florida, Texas, and Arizona have seen worrying increases in their positivity rates — the percentage of tests that are positive — in a sign of accelerating community spread.
The media’s tone about this trend is, of course, apocalyptic, with many commentators portraying the Republican governors of these states as callous extremists hell-bent on reopening, come what may. The fact is that states all over the country have been reopening, and California and North Carolina, both with Democratic governors, have seen spikes in new confirmed cases, too (although not dramatically increasing positivity rates). It’s also irksome to see these governors depicted as villains at the same time New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is lionized as a hero, despite New York’s vastly higher death rate and his fateful decision to send COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.
The reality is that Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, and Doug Ducey are reasonable, public-spirited men who never said they would insist on full reopening regardless of the consequences. Abbott has closed bars back down and further restricted the capacity of restaurants. He’s also stopped elective surgeries again in hard-hit areas and will allow counties to mandate wearing masks in public. DeSantis, too, has shuttered bars, while Florida localities are tightening up again on some restrictions. Ducey is hitting the brakes on the state’s reopening process.
All of this seems prudent. They are following the evidence and adjusting to new data.
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Yet 3 northeastern states have reimplement certain restrictions.
The massive testing effort was a trap. So the recovery is very much in jeopardy
Agree. I live in Florida, and a bar that had just opened up again had to close again on Friday (with three hours notice!). The owner said that this time, he doesn’t think he’s going to be able to bring it back. Also, his employees are absolutely crushed.
It’s a very nice place, too, not a rowdy beach-front bar. Closing the bars was stupid, but I guess DeSantis got intimidated.
DeSantis has been doing a great job!
Cut him some slack!
In Arizona: add the 46% “unknowns” (people with no U.S. identification) to the 25% Hispanic, and you get 71%.
I believe we are importing infected patients.
I have never understood the logic behind mass testing as a matter of course. A person may be given false confidence with a negative result since he may well receive a positive result if tested tomorrow.
Cuomo’s decision to put COVID patients into nursing homes is now being defended on the grounds that New York’s proportion of nursing home deaths relative to all COVID deaths is 46th highest of 50 states according to a NYT study.
He has been, but he’s under attack and he’s getting weaker. Some of the mayors of certain Dem towns in Florida have also been working aggressively to keep things shut down, impose masks, etc. He needs to look straight ahead and just keep his hand on the tiller and ignore them.
If not for the ChinaMex virus, the only thing the AZ media would be talking about would be the wildfires (which we have every year at this time) and how hot it got that day
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