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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

COVID-19: Florida is the new Iran. Pandemic meets Spring Break

Unpardonable malpractice and incompetence by local, state, and federal officials threaten to trigger widespread distribution of COVID-19 through the US by way of a treasured college tradition: spring break.

Florida officials are not releasing testing results. Spring break is effectively now (Feburuary 29 - March 7).

As of 2015, half of all college students plan some kind of spring-break vacation or travel.

There's been news coverage of this. On February 25, the Chicago Tribune carried a story "Spring break is coming and the coronavirus is spreading. Here’s what to know before you go.", predicated on the information that:

The head of the World Health Organization said Monday the virus has “pandemic potential" but is not spreading uncontained across the globe “for the moment.”

What a difference four days makes.

At present, there are in fact multiple instances of community transmission within the US, though the CDC COVID-19 status page (archive) claims otherwise:

At this time, this virus is NOT currently spreading in the community in the United States.

Further, there are imediments on testing (insufficient materials, inappropriate protocols, official refusal to grant testing permission, as at UC Davis Medical Center), and confusion at the national and state levels in how to address the disease.

We know that cruise ships are about the worst possible place to be.

And we're about to see roughly ten million young people (half of the nineteen million college students in the US go out, get their mental states altered, congregate, exercise poor judgement, and then return to the campuses from which they came, all over the country, largely through the air travel network.

Remember that COVID-19 broke out in China just as its major travel event, Chinese New Year, hit. This helped spread the disease throughout the country.

The US are about to run the same experiment.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

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Florida won’t release data on coronavirus testing

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