We just lost two prominent people in the upper Keys to Covid.

[tavernier]

If you are at all familiar with Key Largo and Islamorada, you will recognize their businesses: Mrs. Mac’s and Mangrove Mike’s restaurants. Both too young, vibrant, hard working people, very pro community.



Hitting home hard.

[North Shore Chicago]

1. That is awful!

My condolences.

I have a friend who is 7th generation Key West. In my (the glass is half full) mentality, everyone who lives in the Keys are immuned to harm.

[tavernier]

13. That would be nice.

We were able to keep it at bay when it first started. We closed down the entire county to non residents which pissed off DeSatan big time, and we’ve paid for it ever since. He cut our vaccine supply down to almost nothing at first, and disallowed any further restrictions. When Miami went hot spot status and closed their parks and beaches, we were inundated and our numbers started climbing. The locals still mask at all the stores, but when the weekenders hit town, they don’t mask at all.

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...

[LisaL]

3. Here is some info on one of the deceased.

US really needs to approve boosters for J&J recipients.

"Forster, who represented Monroe County’s District 5, had received one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine."

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/09/06/monroe-county-commissioner-dies-of-covid-19/

[milestogo]

4. Deceased.

[tavernier]

5. Thanks

Angie Wittke was the owner of Mrs. Mac’s. She passed several days ago.

[obamanut2012]

6. Whoa, I've eaten at Mango Mike several times

Before Covid, we'd drive down to snorkel and stuff every few weeks.

[tavernier]

7. Mangrove Mikes

Yup, Most popular breakfast spot in the upper Keys, And no doubt you saw Mike because he was in there all the time.
I work at the high school during the summer we would bag lunches for any kid in the community who wanted to run over to the school and get them. Mike would send us meals from the restaurant now and then just because he was a nice guy And that’s how the Keys work. He will be sadly missed.

[obamanut2012]

14. Autocorrect, sorry!

One of my parents' neighbors died of it last week, up here in PB County. He was a teacher, in his late 40s, very fit.

[tavernier]

15. So sorry!

And as far as auto correct goes, mine is usually drunk. Always putting wrong words in my mouth.

[bahboo]

8. that's awful....

will be leaving a big hole in those communities...

[Botany]

9. The Mayor of Miami's father just passed from C-19 too

Paul Levine, a retired globe-trotting paper executive who saw his oldest daughter elected the first female mayor of Miami-Dade County, died Thursday from complications related to COVID-19, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. He was 87 and fully vaccinated.

“It just goes to show this new variant is so pernicious when you’re vulnerable,” said Levine Cava, who also contracted COVID in the fall of 2020. “We are just one more family affected by COVID.”

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article253985083.html

[Piasladic]

10. Damn!

I was just heading back. Damn, again.

[Treefrog]

11. Were they vaxxed?

[tavernier]

12. Kind of.

Mike had JJ. Perhaps should have gotten one of the others which were available long ago. I heard that Angie just had one of (maybe) Pfizer.
Working in restaurants full of people from the mainland, I would’ve hoped they would’ve been first in line to get fully vaccinated. Maybe this will get some people off their butts and to the pharmacy where there are no lines anymore.