I think it was the late 50s, or maybe the middle??...It was a pre-season exhibition game between the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. They had these games right before the season begins so it was early April.The Cubs were down by 3 runs bottom of 9th, 2 outs. I said to my friend, no way Cubs can win. I think there was one runner on base. But the Cubs did win. Another got on base, a double scored a run, and the next batter hit a home run with 2 men on base to win the game...Now this was 60 years ago, but I do recall watching that, and thinking, It ain't over till it's over

..The governor of Florida thinks he knows more than the scientists and doctors. He wants to please Trump, so that is what he is doing. Jacksonville Mayor is doing the same thing..Think about this:

...More important to please Trump, than to save some lives...even one life

Listen to the scientists and oceanographers.

still heed the precautions and stay-at-home and continue distancing.

Let the idiots go commit suicide on the beaches.

Stay away from here!

In the news yesterday, Santa Cruz County has reopened all beaches and parks.

Couple of weeks. That bastard gov is lying!!

Number of cases have only gone up approx 200 over the last 4 days...bull shit

I live in FL and it is just a matter of days before the whole state is opened up. The beaches will be up and running with no restrictions by the end of next week. I believe the number of cases and deaths are underreported. With the elderly population and the fact that the stay at home order was delayed, I don’t see how the numbers could be what they are reported to be. The trumpers here are anxious to “open up” again. Idiots led by an idiot governor.

Story here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241882491.html.

I don't trust any of the state's numbers. Florida is the third most populous state but its self-reporting puts it eighth in number of cases and tenth in number of deaths. Considering the disproportionate number of vulnerable (elderly) people in the state and the governor's tardy and negligent response, Florida's stats defy credibility.

For example, Putin claims he has low Covid-19 deaths. But there's been a huge spike in "pneumonia" deaths. The number of cases of pneumonia, which can be caused by coronavirus, increased by 37 percent in Moscow year-on-year in January, according to Rosstat, Russia's statistics agency. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-coronavirus-health-russia-idUSKBN216305

except for stupidness.

They will give out the numbers that make them right.

We don't care about the dying people, we want to be just like them?

Repeat, "It is all a hoax" in a different form.
Ok to go to beaches. (under certain restrictions, of course)..Of course, some will not follow those restrictions, so more will die. The governor, Ron De Santis, wants ease restrictions, and so does the mayor of Jacksonville. They want to please Trump, more than save lives..

So, pleasing Trump is more important than saving lives, or listening to scientists and people who have lots of knowledge about contagious diseases.

This is a state with a large elderly population. COVID19 is decimating the elderly.

All to aid big business and the clown in the WH.

We won't have to wait for the second round to come this fall, they will get it now.........

Reading this shit kills me. Desantis is willing to let people die to help Dolt 45.

Fuck these people.

People will go to the beach and spread virus and numbers will go up even more.

There must be something in the water.

Maybe that's why people there are so batshit crazy?

I wonder if there could be cadaver brain tissue or DNA testing examine the question.

There's no such thing as a "soft reopening."

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/florida

assuming there is an ICU bed, a ventilator, and the supplies and drugs that go with it. I just saw stories in the past 2 days about both ventilators and drugs -- still running very low

to wipe out Florida?

They probably drove past five Walmarts packed with thousands of people to get to the beach. I think people have been going to the grocery stores out of boredom since they are open.

All the sidewalks and bike paths have been packed too because people want to get outside and all the gyms are closed, walking on the beach vs. walking a trail doesn’t seem like a much higher risk.

California is also starting to reopen beaches and parks as of yesterday as well.

And that being used against us could be problem too. I am in Vancouver, Canada. Here we are doing okay, as far as flattening the curve. Everyone is practising SD. Limiting store shoppers. Keeping distance. And here, although they have dampened the ability by closing park parking lots, we have never not been allowed to go outside to beaches, parks. While inside centers are closed, beaches and parks are open. There is very little risk outdoors, if you practice SD. From another article on DU:

"Your chances of catching the virus when you go outdoors is extremely low, provided you’re keeping a safe distance from others.

”Outdoors is safe, and there is certainly no cloud of virus-laden droplets hanging around,” said Lidia Morawska, professor and director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

“Firstly, any infectious droplets exhaled outside would be quickly diluted in outdoor air, so their concentrations would quickly become insignificant,” Dr. Morawska said. “In addition, the stability of the virus outside is significantly shorter than inside. So outside is not really a problem, unless if we are in a very crowded place — which is not allowed now anyway. It is safe to go for a walk and jog and not to worry about the virus in the air, and there is no need for an immediate washing of the clothes.”



People need to re-energize and get fresh air. From the OP article:

"Officials aren't afraid to pull the plug on beachgoers if they don't abide by the social distancing rules and beach restrictions, Atlantic Beach Mayor Ellen Glasser said at a press conference Friday."

So it looks like they do have strict rules in place about SD. We can't fall into a trap of hanging onto a Pavlovian response of automatically opposing any movement the other way. Which closing beaches may have been an over-reach in the first days when they didn't understand completely how it was transferred , and/or SD was not an accepted or well known practice yet.

I think there is a danger going forward, that is IF and when this virus is finally under control, Democrats will be painted as extremists the other way. As has been pointed out, California also is relaxing beach usage rules.