Comments on: Questions Remain About Opening State Offices

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:13:17 +0000

Hey Lena, Maybe its the punkprotestors out protesting and rioting too soon. If the economy stays shut down, the state government will eventually collapse and the local along with it.

By: Dale Nute

Dale Nute — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:06:17 +0000

To no fear: 3018 dead divided by 82719 positive cases gives 0.036 as a proportion. Multiply by 100 to get percent. 3.6% not 0.026%
You have a 1 in 20 chance of catching it according to your assumption that the data extrapolates to 1.1 million sick out 21 million population.
If a 0.036 proportion of the 1.1 million die we have 39,600 dead for the State and that is basically under lock down conditions in which hospitals were able to save about 5 times the number who would have died without treatment. Overload the hospitals and your assumptions are no longer valid.
Wearing even a poor mask will reduce your chances of breathing in a dose of virus high enough to infect you. Not wearing a mask is like playing poker with your cards showing.
Vegas may break your kneecaps but Covid 19 kills.

By: Ro G

Ro G — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 23:28:41 +0000

If all of the minimum wage workers can be at work and schools are reopening in August I feel there’s no reason why state workers can’t go back.

By: Ann Coates

Ann Coates — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:49:11 +0000

Stop publishing stories from The News Service of Florida.

This is an opinion piece.

By: No Fear

No Fear — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:41:22 +0000

Anyone with a basic ability to use Excel and math can easily run Florida’s Covid numbers to determine what is the actual risk of death to this virus. As of 6/16/20 Florida has tested approximately 6.8% of it’s population or around 1.4 million Floridians. This is now a statistically reliable and valid sample you can extrapolate to the entire 21 million Florida residents. Of those tested only 5.4% were positive. If you extrapolate the 5.4% positive rate to the entirety of Florida’s population, you come up with approximately 1.1 million potential positive Florida residents. Since we know the actual death rate of 2,993 as of 6/16/20 you can easily calculate the estimated death rate at 0.26% to estimated positive Florida cases. A better way to put it is you have a 99.74% estimated recovery rate.
Still another way to interpret easily available Florida Covid data is to look at the 5.4% positive rate of those tested. You have a 94.6% chance of being negative if you are tested. You also have a 0.21% chance of dying if you are tested.

Now for the commentary. Testing will always continue to increase and so will the positive count. We know unequivocally the at-risk groups that have died from this virus and the majority died with co-morbidities. Unless you fall into those categories get out and live your life. The overwhelming majority of folks that test positive are asymptomatic and/or recover just fine.

I will take these odds any day, any time and live my life as normal as possible without fear. I would love to have these odds while gambling in Vegas. You have a significantly higher chance of dying driving your car around town than dying from this virus. Stop the panic porn, stop the fear, stop wearing your burqa mask of fear, eat healthy, wash your filthy hands, cover your mouth when you cough, stay home if you feel bad and most of all stop scaring heck out of your kids and forcing them to wear burqa masks in public as well. Shame on all of you who have given in to the fear porn of the enemedia and criminally corrupt government institutions.

By: Lena

Lena — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 02:10:09 +0000

After 7 days of over 1,000 new cases and three days of over 2,000 new cases, let’s all just admit that the economy is opening too soon and it will cost money and lives.

At this rate, it’s crazy to pretend we are normal.

And this is just a continuation of the first wave. If we get a second, we are far from there yet.

By: Snidely Whiplash

Snidely Whiplash — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:47:43 +0000

In reply to JIMCAR.

Yes centralize the few needed to be “in an office enviornment” at Southwood and liquidate all down town State buildings.
The 22 story Capital would make a great hotel or condos.
Everyone else work from home.
Do it!!!

By: JIMCAR

JIMCAR — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:43:24 +0000

Think of the money saved in office space, square footage by allowing telecommuting for most state employees. It would be a huge savings.