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Florida is exactly why there's no such thing as "a second wave" of COVID-19. The lack of a unified federal response has made the situation regional, meaning some states CAN reopen, while others SHOULDN'T, because different approaches were taken with lockdowns.
The summer heat was never going to kill it, it was just going to linger and right now it's all over the south the way it was all over the Northeast, Midwest and Northwest a few months ago. This is THEIR stage of the first wave, which is still going.
Because of this splintered state by state approach, we're never going to have a situation where the first wave dies down enough to call it dead because states will rise and peak while others level off and plateau. This is why I said we live in 50 individual territories right now.
The federal government is not taking a unified national approach to this, especially since they haven't had a task force briefing in nearly 2 months, and when they did have them they were propagandic clown shows. It has been up to the state governments from Day 1 to respond.
So keep that in mind when observing and commenting on COVID-19 in the U.S. because not every region is handling or dealing with the situation the same way, and it's blatantly obvious based on numbers and what those state governments are doing as to how divided this is.
My state, Michigan, was locked down largely from the middle of March to just a few weeks ago. I'm still working from home and salons just reopened. My gym is back on an appointment basis only(which I'm not doing). This is because our numbers have gone way down.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't remain cautious by any means. I got a mask when I go to the store and I'm not going to bars, restaurants or any other gatherings rest of the year. I'm still not certain I'm going to see Tenet in theaters yet when it opens. Game time decision.
But clearly what's happening in Florida now, at least with respect to cases, is what was happening here between March and May respectively, when we lost many people including longtime friends of our family to the virus, and it doesn't look like caution is being observed there.
So I understand the incredulous reactions to it, seriously. Just don't apply that logic to the entire country. We're already in a position where our way of life doesn't support any kind of shutdowns at all and we HAVE to reopen, lest we die from non-COVID economic perils.
But it's clearly safer(not 100%) in some states than it is in others, and while the entire country should remain on alert until science catches up with this thing, some areas are Yellow Alert while the south is pretty much Red Alert territory. It's all about perspective here.
Like I've been saying, "Caution, not panic or dismissal." It's real, it's killed over 100,000 and counting and you better be on guard, but it's not an automatic death sentence, humanity will survive and some areas will fare better than others.
Don't go to Florida right now.
Don't go to Florida right now.
