South Florida Is a Hotbed of COVID Activity

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Recently Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, has been busy lifting every restriction that he can find regarding the coronavirus pandemic.  He wants his state to be wide open to tourists from America's colder climes - and their money.   The pandemic is over in Florida because Ron says it's over. 

Except, of course, there is still a coronavirus pandemic in Florida - and it is raging - particularly in south Florida!

There is currently a COVID spike in Miami, a city which is also in the middle of a "spring break" crush of young revelers from across the nation.  Miami enacted an 8:00 p.m. curfew last night in an effort to clear the streets and restore some sense of order and safety.  Many of the public partiers, however, disregarded the city's order to clear the streets, and the cops had to be brought in.  Chemical agents were deployed, stampedes ensued, and the virus undoubtedly spread with wild abandon as people were herded up and down the city's street's like so many steers being driven to market.

 Meanwhile up the road in Palm Beach, parts of the Mar-a-Lago members-only club had to be closed due to a COVID outbreak.  The club, which is the home of one former US President, has recently hosted large charity events that appeared to be essentially mask-less and with little or no social distancing.  Now it has been revealed that because of COVID outbreaks among members of the club's staff, the dining room and beach facility have been temporarily closed.

So with COVID running rampant up and down the streets and beaches of Miami and even into the rarified air of private clubs, the state's governor thinks this is a great time to declare the pandemic deceased and lift all government restrictions that had been put into place to protect the state's residents from the dreaded disease.  Ron DeSantis, a man who is available to run for President if anyone wants him to, is a big supporter of personal freedom.   He believes that the government should not be in the business of restricting anything - except, of course, the voting rights of certain groups.

But that is fodder for a whole other posting.