Because stiff fines won’t stop everyone doesn’t mean it won’t stop many of them. Would you be willing to risk a $500 fine? I don’t know about you, but I tend to pay tickets when I get them to avoid a warrant for my arrest being issued. I don’t think I’m an outlier.
I am guessing you weren’t wearing a mask and staying at least six feet away from everyone else at the beach, just like everyone else at the time, so it’s not surprising. But I get your point. Yes, the virus isn’t spread as easily outdoors, but if you spend your time outdoors without a mask sitting in a cluster of your BFFs, all it takes is one of them having it and you’re toast. I really don’t understand people who want to gather together for any reason and not do two simple things - mask and distance. You can have a July 4th BBQ, but mask and space. Air hugs instead of physical hugs. No tables, but lots of chairs all spread out. Use a little common sense.
It’s not that easy. First, people live there, so banning parking on their streets hurts them as well. Second, we don’t have enough law enforcement officers to patrol that. The coastline for our county is 55 miles, with 17 miles of beaches. It’s a lot to patrol - so they are stuck really only being able to patrol the parking lots. Our Gov didn’t close our actual beaches and our county’s hands are tied on that. As state beaches, they don’t have the authority to close them. And they got completely blindsided by the order - they weren’t given any heads up it was coming and had no reason to believe they’d be included since we aren’t on the state’s watch list.
IMO if most states followed what has been done here the rise in cases probably wouldn't be so high. If bars and restaurants want to open only allow for patio seating.
We are talking about beaches.
I agree with a lot of what you said. I'm from Canada and if there's anything I've learned from all this it's that everyone is in a different situation, and if you think you're in a good situation now who knows what it could look like tomorrow. Every single encounter I've ever had in the U.S. from NYC to Florida has been a positive one. I can't wait to go back *soon* when we are all on the other side of this.
The thing that scares the crap out of me is all the people I know traveling right now. This is not going to go well. I personally don’t care about holidays. I don’t get all the hype. I prefer to relax when I’m on vacation but obviously plenty people don’t agree. If people weren’t he’ll bent on vacationing right now this wouldn’t be so bad.
Florida now has the honor of having the highest average cases per day in the nation. The positivity rate is rising as well. Great time to open, huh? This is with around 67k tested.
Wow who would have believed it would escalate to where we are now.
And people are actually thinking about going to a theme or movie theater. I'm not expecting Disney or US to remain open much longer.
I pray for you Floridians everyday.
I tend to respect laws. I’m a rule follower. Although the thought of living in a world as some describe is sad, disheartening and :upsi
Every medical expert in the country.
How many hospitized or deaths? Are either increasing? How about retesting positives? So many details in the real numbers but so little information splashed in the headlines.
I've said it on another thread, but there are a few posters from Canada (and even a few from the UK that I have seen, although not sure why) who seem to think that they are superior because of the outcomes in parts of Canada vs the US. I don't think that people in NB, NL, BC etc would give Ontario or Quebec any awards right now either, but I don't read them hammering on about what Ontario should have done.
