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A few days before the July 4th holiday, an employee of an electronics store knocked on my door. He brought a new television and, following the protocol of the establishment, he did not enter until he placed some plastic bags over his shoes and disinfected the box. He greeted me with a mask and I responded by receiving him with my face protector.

While doing the installation, we talked while keeping our distance. The technician lamented the number of people in the city of Miami who received him without masks. Some, he said, had rebuked him when he explained that he could not enter if they did not have protection like him. "They tell me that nobody in their houses tells them what to do," he told me. Cases in which he simply could not do his job and, frustrated, left with the merchandise.

What the friendly technician told me corroborated alarming signs: Florida is one of the states where the spread of the coronavirus has exploded as a consequence of the lax policy of Governor Ron DeSantis and of collective irresponsibility. Gone are the first weeks of the outbreak of the pandemic, when Republican DeSantis boasted of having everything under control and compared himself, not without condescension, to New York State, epicenter at that time of the epidemic. In the face of the serious health crisis, Governor Andrew Cuomo took draconian measures that to this day, in view of the outbreaks in other parts of the country, are gradually softened by fear of reviving the dramatic situations that New Yorkers suffered.

Now DeSantis is elusive in press conferences in which the media demand that the authorities be more transparent in relation to the number of hospitalizations for Covid-19, and explain why they have failed to track cases to stop the wave. of infections. With 1 in 100 positive Florida residents and an 88% increase in hospitalizations since June 23 , the governor insists that the number of confirmed cases has stabilized and is reluctant to order the mandatory use of masks throughout the state. However, in his appearance this Tuesday at a medical center in Miami, he provided very worrying data: in the hospitals of the Jackson Memorial, which is the state's largest network of public hospitals, people who are admitted for non-medical reasons are being tested. related to the coronavirus and 30 to 40% had tested positive. On the same day, he announced that they would send an additional 100 nurses to the intensive care units at Jackson Memorial due to the saturation of patients.

Cases that emerge in private meetings

The profile of Covid-19 patients who now occupy hospital beds ranges from 18 to 35 years. Epidemiologists agree that the majority of cases in Florida, especially Miami-Dade County, which is the main focus right now, has originated from recent protests, family gatherings, house parties, crowded beaches, and bars that in much of the state reopened prematurely.

Shortly after a reopening that many now consider was premature and without a contingency plan, a group of 16 young people became infected after a meeting at a bar in Jacksonville . After a quarantine that was never like confinements in New York or Massachusetts, Floridians ran to congregate on beaches and celebrate in groups, many of them ignoring social estrangement and without any protection.

The behavior of those who have taken the pandemic lightly, even denying the existence of the virus and turning the use of the mask into a war of ideological sign, is the reflection of a state policy that has led to confusion and contradictions in governments. local. Today Floridians face the harsh reality of overflowing hospitals and youth attached to respirators. Gone are the days when the suffering of others seemed far away and alien.

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