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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Beaches are only open for certain hours, so if you check skycam now there shouldn't be anyone out there.When the uproar started yesterday about FL beaches by folks disdainful of their perceived inferiors I went to the local FL Sky Cam
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Somehow missing the crowds pictured in the news photos. Newsroom must have posted stock photos.
Yeah I mean I have no idea why we cannot golf. Golf is the definition of social distancing. Let me smack the hell out of a ball, drink a million beers, and then launch my putter when I can’t sink a 5ft putt.We'll see but I think people are taking this a lot more serious than they were a few months ago. Some activities will be easier to maintain social distancing measures than others. Walking on the beach and golfing seem like no brainers.
I saw a grand total of 0 jogging. But WTF would I know? I only live there.Beaches are only open for certain hours, so if you check skycam now there shouldn't be anyone out there.
I watched a live interview on CNN with a guy that specifically talked about the reopening and concerns, etc. and you could see plenty of people on the beach, jogging or walking, etc.
And that's the thing with this virus, how easily it spreads.Walking on beach should be a no brainer but Today's video shows too many not using brains.
May luck out because it's likely that sun & humidity is a virus suppressor.
Sadly, inside in an assisted living facility is a petri dish.
What's funny is the order is to allow people to walk and jog. People aren't supposed to be laying on a towel, hanging out. How many did you see laying on towels.I saw a grand total of 0 jogging. But WTF would I know? I only live there.
None lol. Curry is a massive idiot. He tried selling the municipal utility up here (that gives City Hall in excess of $80M per year) via sone vulture capitalism.What's funny is the order is to allow people to walk and jog. People aren't supposed to be laying on a towel, hanging out. How many did you see laying on towels.
None lol. Curry is a massive idiot. He tried selling the municipal utility up here (that gives City Hall in excess of $80M per year) via sone vulture capitalism.
Laying on towels makes more sense than jogging but, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not that hard just to move more than 10 ft away from some doucher that’s jogging.
What do you think about the...VIRUS?I was so glad the FL preserves stayed open! Enjoyed early AM several miles walks.
That said I'm avoiding them now because they're filled with runners who are spewing exhalents almost 6 meters never mind 6 feet. Impossible to avoid their output. Wicked pissed.
PS Done with this topic now
I came here to avoid virus talk and now here I am spewing forth. Looking in mirror & stoping.
The beaches are open from 6 am - 11 am and then from 5 pm - 8 pm. Those are not exactly prime beach-going hours. And the CNN reports were way, way, WAY overblown. People kept their distance from people they didn’t know. This thing isn’t airborne. Furthermore, there is scientific evidence of it dying in heat and humidity. Wear a mask, sunglasses, practice good hygiene, and you’ll be fine. For God’s sake, at some point people need to realize that the hysteria is worse than the actual virus itself.
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in their guidance on SARS-CoV2 downplay airborne spread, saying instead that the primary form of transmission is by "large respiratory droplets."This debate – airborne vs. droplets — is a crucial divergence in thought when it comes to figuring out if COVID-19 is going to be seasonal. If the primary form of transmission is airborne, then the novel coronavirus could become a seasonal disease. If it mainly spreads through "large respiratory droplets", then seasonality is less likely.
There's evidence pointing toward both possible transmission routes.
As an exercise to check your delusion, try substituting "caution" for "the hysteria."
People need to realize that inability to breathe on one's own, with a 1 in 5 chance of coming off the vent alive, is worse than not going to the beach.
Beach.
Oops. I typed that twice.
First of all, as of Apr. 9, it was controversial whether there was no airborne component to spread (although I think it likely that it will have trouble with heat):
However, there's this:
Coronavirus may wane this summer, but don't count on any seasonal variation to end the pandemic
But while it opens with seasonality, it goes on to tick off reasons for caution.
So that could still go either way.
"This novel coronavirus is a cousin of the coronaviruses that are circulating in humans and just causing the common cold," she says. "So the property of the virus is likely to be similar to the common cold version of the coronavirus. So I would expect that this [new] coronavirus can also stay in the air better at lower relative humidity, meaning the indoor conditions that you find in the winter months." Meaning that it would be more likely to spread in winter.
But if you've got a young population without any dense populations of the elderly maybe you're not taking any real chances by not being as strict with social distancing.
Oh. That's right.
Okay it might work out, let's all send positive vibes. You know, because the one actual defense humanity has seems like too much trouble. That and the unproven but much ballyhooed therapeutic du jour.
Best of luck with the beach strolls though. And also church. There's a reason they're called "sanctuaries!" You'll be fine in those.
Nah, it’s hysteria. Caution is limiting being in crowded areas. Hysteria is locking yourself in your house for months at a time. I get it. You have a wife that has COPD. Not everyone has COPD. So you can stay in while the rest of us enjoy the ocean.
Sure is. That’s why you can wear a mask, sunglasses, and avoid contact with your face until you sanitize your hands. Works in the grocery store, it’ll work elsewhere as well. But you haven’t shopped for groceries or eaten out once, right? Because, if you have, this post makes you a hypocrite.
If you think it’s airborne, please feel free to share scientific evidence.
hen researcher Josh Santarpia stands at the foot of a bed, taking measurements with a device that can detect tiny, invisible particles of mucus or saliva that come out of someone's mouth and move through the air, he can tell whether the bedridden person is speaking or not just by looking at the read-out on his instrument.
"So clearly the particles that that person is putting out are being breathed in by someone that is five feet away from them, at the foot of their bed," says Santarpia, who studies biological aerosols at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. "Do they contain virus? I don't know for sure."
And caution is what most were exercising on the beach yesterday. Those that don’t will either get it or they won’t. Those who do get it have great odds of survival. Anyway, you may recognize NPR as a source that you’d accept...
Then there has been the research out of Hong Kong, as reported by the WSJ (I shared the article last week) showing the virus dying in increased heat and humidity.
Add to that the fact that the virus is decidedly not airborne
and you have no reason why the beaches should reopen.
The elderly weren’t out yesterday from what I could see. They’re terrified. And they should be. Their immune systems are weaker and many of them have preexisting conditions. But misery loves company which is why they also think younger people without preexisting conditions should be holed up in their houses too.
I don’t go to church. Perhaps you should, though. At your age, it would make sense to make peace with God just in case you get this when you hit the grocery store or order food for pick-up or delivery.
Still, many beachgoers in Jacksonville didn't appear to be following the government's order as some sunbathed and gathered with friends on Friday evening.
The rush came on the same day that Florida saw 1,400 new infections — the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases yet. As of Friday, the state, which has become a hotspot of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, had reported over 24,000 cases of the virus and nearly 700 deaths.
Tony's vagina is just aching because he and his behemoth wife will have to come out of their dilapidated trailer and start to work again, instead of living off of this COVID handout.
It's ok, bud. I know you and wifey are at risk due to your morbid obesity, but your deaths will not be in vain. I'll drink one on the beach just for you this summer, tubby.
Doesn't look like classic social distancing. Whatever.
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