About fuckin' time:
Florida governor issues coronavirus stay-at-home order after heavy criticism
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) mandated a 30-day stay-at-home order for the state Wednesday, requiring that its nearly 21 million residents stay indoors unless they are pursuing essential services or activities. His executive order will take effect midnight Thursday.
DeSantis took heavy criticism from state lawmakers for refusing to enact such an order until this week, even as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases have nearly surpassed 7,000 in the state, including at least 85 deaths as of Tuesday.
The daily reports from the Florida Department of Health drive the fact home: The number of people testing positive for covid-19 has accelerated rapidly, nearly doubling in the past four days, with 3,274 new cases, bringing the statewide total to 6,741 as of Tuesday evening.
The state reported 857 people hospitalized and 85 deaths as of Tuesday, with the heaviest concentration of infection in Broward and Miami-Dade counties along the southeast coast and pockets in other areas like Tampa and Orange County, home of Walt Disney World. On Tuesday alone, 14 deaths were reported in the state, according to the Miami Herald.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... -desantis/
The stay at home order for the Bay Area which was due to expire on April 6th has been extended to May 3rd, but let's not kid ourselves...
All the models that produce the "best case" scenarios for deaths are based on keeping shelter-in-place and social distancing through both April and May...
Lockdown extensions may be getting issued in monthly increments in most states, (though the Governor of Virginia has extended that state to June 10th) but we're looking at June at the earliest for any real relaxation of the lockdown rules to take place...
We're going to need
far more widespread testing, not just testing those with strong symptoms (including large scale antibody testing) to begin to start getting appreciable numbers of people out of lockdown and back to work...
So be prepared for at least 2 more months of stay at home...