Dumb and dumber
So, New Yorkers, you think you drew the short straw when it comes to Governors. Ha! To paraphrase Henny Youngman: “Take my Governor, please!” In an expression from Peanuts, “He’s a blockhead.” Your governor likes to touch people, particularly women. Our governor is trying to kill everyone. His tool is a combination of politics and idiocy. He wants Potemkin Villages—lots of businesses with no people left to patronize them. The subject is Covid.
Here is a man who, if he could fiddle, would be pulling a Nero. Florida, in case the fact has escaped you, is leading the nation in the resurgence of Covid. The culprit is the Delta variant. Here are some statistics as of this writing. There have been 12,888 people in the state who have been hospitalized with it. That is higher than last year’s all-time high. That figure encompasses 255 of 261 of them in the state. One has to get the figures from the hospitals because in his infinite wisdom our Governor no longer allows daily health department briefings. I guess he figures if you don’t hear about them, they aren’t there.
The next day from the above figures showed another 20,000 plus admissions. That’s a one-day figure. In all 261 hospitals 89% of the intensive care unit (ICU) beds are filled. We have an 8-day average of a whopping 18,120 cases a week. And I guess if you don’t hear about the cases, nobody dies. Tell that to the 80 families who have lost loved ones to this point in the resurgence. In south Florida there has been an unprecedented surge. Memorial Healthcare System reports admissions of 1,600 persons overnight, the largest number than it has ever recorded. It has asked Uncle Sam for oxygen and more ventilators. The famed Jackson Memorial has seen a 385% increase in Covid patients in one month. It is requiring all employees and on-site vendors to be vaccinated and pushing hard to raise the 60% employee rate. (Kudos to the Fl. Sun Sentinel for its stellar research.)