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Lol I haven’t left the house today but yesterday I was down in Broward county and the traffic was still as insane as ever.

This shelter in place order that DeSantis put in place is kinda weak. Lots of exemptions and wiggle room for people. He did it just to save face and relieve some political pressure.

It could be bad, but I don’t think it’ll approach NY levels. South Florida is very spread out and nowhere near as many people or as densely populated as NYC/NJ metro area.

I hope you are right.  My in-laws are in Broward County right now.  When this thing was just starting to blow up I offered to fly down and drive them back here because I thought that Ohio would be safer than Florida.  

It now appears pretty clear that I was right.  Ohio is at 212 cases per 1M population.  Summit County (where they live in Ohio) is at 242 cases per 1M population.  Medina County (where I live in Ohio) is at 306 cases per 1M population.  At home they are in Southern Summit County which is adjacent to Wayne County and Stark County which are at 78 and 121 cases per 1M population.  

They stayed for reasons that I don't want to get into right now and now they are in Broward County Florida.  I don't have County data for Florida at my fingertips but Florida as a whole is at 357 cases per 1M population and Miami-Dade County which is immediately South of Broward County (where they are) is at 810 cases per 1M population.  Also, while I can't see the actual figure, I do have a County Map of the Contiguous US and Broward County is the second-worst County in Florida, only better than Miami-Dade.  

I'm worried for them because my FIL is an 83 year old DAV with multiple serious co-morbidity factors while my MIL 69 and his only available caregiver.  If my FIL gets it I think his chances are pretty slim.  If my MIL gets it I have no idea who will take care of my FIL.  

That's some big beef!

My i s c & a aggie wife picked up a 13-lb brisket and three racks of pork spares today.  I think she's trying to tell me something...

The first shitheel who posted the NYT graph on twitter simply gave the comment:

"The South"

So fuck that guy and the assholes who think like him. 

I saw that and, dumbass. That graphic was gonna get culture-war-y fast, and accelerating it to be a shit is just worthless. It was also gonna spawn counter graphics like the one above, which is sort of contextless (if you have no car and no super market within a mile, you're probably not going all that far). It also doesn't track cleanly enough to make sense. 

But the larger sin is to turn it into a vector of some sort of morality, i.e. a quick way to dunk on people. I could think of reasons folks in this part of the country might be a little more aggressive about it (stronger screw authority feelings, not much in the way of local orders, perhaps some other-izing of the problem). I'm generally flummoxed about the data because I simply don't believe folks in northern Michigan and South Dakota suddenly hopped on board en masse while everyone outside three cities in Alabama did not. 

Basically, this is an interesting bit of data that doesn't tell that much and invites more questions. 

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/03/826699690/spain-briefly-passes-italy-in-covid-19-cases-but-officials-see-growth-rate-slowi?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=nprblogscoronavirusliveupdates
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/03/826699690/spain-briefly-passes-italy-in-covid-19-cases-but-officials-see-growth-rate-slowi?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=nprblogscoronavirusliveupdates

Spain and Italy MAY be near cresting, hopefully.

I must live under a rock and not go on the twitters that much, but apparently billionaire David Geffen won the most tone deaf person alive award when he posted on his Instagram account drone shots of his 469 foot yacht in the Caribbean wishing everyone a safe and happy quarantine. This jackass got roasted alive on social media over it.

This dude is worth $8 billion and there are millions of people in his country out of work not able to afford their rent payments or food and thousands and thousands sick and all he can think about doing is showing off what’s essentially a private cruise ship- can’t even call it a yacht- that probably costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Absolutely disgusting to me. If I could kick him as hard as I possibly can in the dick I would. I would pay good money for that.

A ship that big is compensation for a very small dick, so I hope you have good aim.

469 feet? That's probably in the 100 Million range, depending on amenities.

$590 million. 

$590 million.

That's a lot of amenities. Must be palatial inside, like Paul Allen's yacht.


We were in St. Bart a few years ago during yacht week. Our ship was tendered there, as was Allen's and that HUGE one from Russia.


The day before New Year's Eve, the Russian had the Rolling Stones play live on his ship. Then, on New Year's Eve, U2 played. We could hear them from our ship. Unreal, some of the money that's out there.