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OrlandoDem2

(2,231 posts)
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 09:39 AM Jul 2021

Might want to cancel your Disney, Sea World, Universal plans

Covid is surging in Orlando/Orange County, world wide vacation destination.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/26/politics/florida-jerry-demings-covid-warning-amusement-parks/index.html

Washington(CNN) The mayor of the Florida county that's home to Disney World and Universal Studios is sounding the alarm on a spike of Covid-19 cases in the area, saying the county is now in "crisis mode" as it grapples with its worsening infection rate.

"These numbers are extraordinary. We are seeing nearly 1,000 new cases in Orange County daily. Those are the numbers we saw at the highest peak last year," Mayor Jerry Demings, a Democrat, said Monday during a news conference. "So a thousand a day is extraordinary. We are now in crisis mode."

Urging the county's residents to get vaccinated, Demings added: "We, as a community, need to work together to slow the spread."

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Might want to cancel your Disney, Sea World, Universal plans (Original Post) OrlandoDem2 Jul 2021 OP
Fl gov says - it's seasonal . . . Lovie777 Jul 2021 #1
Someone needs to tell him that, yes, Covid is seasonal. It exists in summer, fall, winter and spring OrlandoDem2 Jul 2021 #4
Well damn.Next family get together was scheduled for Baitball Blogger Jul 2021 #2
I traveled across the state over the weekend soryang Jul 2021 #3
Trust me. I know. We actually did very well with masks in most areas until the CDC said OrlandoDem2 Jul 2021 #5
Kick BlueWavePsych Jul 2021 #6

OrlandoDem2

(2,231 posts)
4. Someone needs to tell him that, yes, Covid is seasonal. It exists in summer, fall, winter and spring
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 10:51 AM
Jul 2021

It has had a surge in all 4 seasons. I simply can’t stand him.

Baitball Blogger

(47,626 posts)
2. Well damn.Next family get together was scheduled for
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 09:54 AM
Jul 2021

The food and wine festival at Epcot in October. Hear that Disney? People are going to walk away instead of joining de santis’s shitshow.

soryang

(3,304 posts)
3. I traveled across the state over the weekend
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 10:13 AM
Jul 2021

i stopped in a shopping center, some rest areas, a convenience store. Out of the hundreds of people I saw going in and out of buildiings, three had masks, excluding myself. Pandemic? What pandemic? This is how the public in Florida is.

OrlandoDem2

(2,231 posts)
5. Trust me. I know. We actually did very well with masks in most areas until the CDC said
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 10:53 AM
Jul 2021

vaccinated people didn’t need them. Well, how do we know who is or isn’t??? About half of Floridians are fully vaccinated but everyone took them off.

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