At the rate that Florida is filling up their hospitals with Covid patients,

[Baitball Blogger]

the beds will reach capacity at the same time that the schools are due to open. Would our Republican governor be heinously criminal-minded enough to force that school opening in that event?

I can't answer that question with what I've seen from him, or from Kemp. They both should face human tribunals after this is over.

[Iliyah]

1. DeSantis will try to hide this too? . .

Closing labs, opening up schools, etc.

I guess the republicans are going with "herd immunity" or better yet "survival of the fittest".

Except for their families.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. If the hospitals get full, the local press won't play with De Santis.

Local means their friends and family members could be part of the casualty list.

[OrlandoDem2]

8. Herd immunity was their policy all along. They just aren't saying it.

[SoonerPride]

10. "Just live with it"

When what they really mean is just die with it.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. You're right. Pushing a policy without explaining their reasoning.

The kind of social-engineering you would expect from people who do not have a conscientious.

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[bunny planet]

2. Here's the website started by the public health official fired by De Santis

Has sobering hospital capacity info county by county...updated daily. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/7572b118dc3c48d885d1c643c195314e/

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Thank you.

[OrlandoDem2]

3. Make no mistake. They will keep pressuring for face to face instruction.

There is strong evidence that the state surgeon general is silencing local health departments. It was reported on news that he Palm Beach health authorities were told to shut up after initially telling the school board it’s not safe to open.

In Orange County, Dr Raul Pino has gone silent and the OCPS school board is too spineless to act without hearing specifically from him that it’s too unsafe to open.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. We are going to need our local news reporters, like never before.

[Goonch]

4. There is no compassion in politics -

only self serviance

[Hortensis]

9. Heard a study found, of FL kids tested, 1/3 tested positive.

Of course, most were probably tested because of known exposure, most often illness in the family, but still.

Positive means infected. Infected means contagious, even if asymptomatic. Kids seemingly don't spread it as much as adults, but that just means they spread it less.

Agree about the tribunals. I'm starting to dream of, eventually, a Republican Party under new management, turning on them and giving them no place to hide. Conservatives are overall big on punishing crime, and this is big crime happening to them.

"The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.” ― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

[Baitball Blogger]

12. I saw that report. That one was valid.

[Hortensis]

13. Figures that bad news like that would be. nt

[crickets]

14. K&R for the post and the discussion.

[lpbk2713]

15. A parent should not be required to risk harm to their child.

They would be in a incubator for six or seven hours
including the bus ride for some. I couldn't do it.