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jpak

(41,758 posts) Mon Aug 8, 2016, 05:52 PM Aug 2016

Florida officials go into damage control over Zika

Source: CBS News

TAMPA, Fla. -- Thank goodness it's the slow season in Florida.

At least that's what officials and representatives of the state's multibillion-dollar tourism industry are thinking in the wake of the news that 16 people have been infected with Zika in a small, trendy neighborhood in Miami.

The outbreak has sent another chill through the Sunshine State's all-important tourism industry just weeks after the Orlando nightclub massacre and the killing of a 2-year-old boy by an alligator at nearby Walt Disney World.

Florida officials have gone into damage-control mode, with Gov. Rick Scott insisting, "We have a safe state!" during a tour of the Zika hot zone in Miami's Wynwood district.

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Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-officials-go-into-damage-control-over-zika/

No - you don't Rick.

Try pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.

yup

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Florida officials go into damage control over Zika (Original Post) jpak Aug 2016 OP

everythings just fine juxtaposed Aug 2016 #1

OMG Skittles Aug 2016 #2

thats right Cryptoad Aug 2016 #3

I always love the line, "supposedly injured some bathers." Downtown Hound Aug 2016 #4

If those Zika mosquitoes are hungry, forest444 Aug 2016 #5

Mainstream America.."Where's my legal abortion?" McCamy Taylor Aug 2016 #6

And the Republican response? You citizens better not have abortions! Midnight Writer Aug 2016 #7

Get those Florida (Republican) Congresspersons back to DC to vote No Vested Interest Aug 2016 #8

So where are the local Zika infected mosquitoes? HockeyMom Aug 2016 #9

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)

1. everythings just fine

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 06:14 PM

Aug 2016

Skittles

(153,185 posts)

2. OMG

Reply to juxtaposed (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 06:31 PM

Aug 2016

I shouldn't laugh, because ZIKA is a real tragedy, but you NAIL IT

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)

3. thats right

Reply to juxtaposed (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 06:58 PM

Aug 2016

GOP Congress said everything is OOOOTAY!

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)

4. I always love the line, "supposedly injured some bathers."

Reply to juxtaposed (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 07:13 PM

Aug 2016

You mean, like, chew them up into ground meat?

forest444

(5,902 posts)

5. If those Zika mosquitoes are hungry,

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 07:17 PM

Aug 2016

throw'em Reptilian Rick!

Although I doubt even a mosquito would want to have anything to do with him - or, rather, it.

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)

6. Mainstream America.."Where's my legal abortion?"

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 10:57 PM

Aug 2016

Not a good political year for the RNC.

Midnight Writer

(21,793 posts)

7. And the Republican response? You citizens better not have abortions!

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 11:24 PM

Aug 2016

No Vested Interest

(5,167 posts)

8. Get those Florida (Republican) Congresspersons back to DC to vote

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 02:23 AM

Aug 2016

for increased Zika research funding.
Then vote them out for not pushing this through months ago, as President Obama requested.

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

9. So where are the local Zika infected mosquitoes?

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 01:08 PM

Aug 2016

Have they found any? I live in SW Florida and haven't heard of any locally infected mosquitoes being found. Did they stop testing them? Did they kill them all with all constant spraying on the ground and by planes they are doing, including 130 miles away where I live?

So if these 16 people weren't bitten by locally infected mosquitoes, didn't travel, didn't have sex with a traveler, how are they getting Zika? "Casual Contact" with a previously infected person? Reading between the lines for the next headlines.

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