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Old 04-08-2020, 07:47 PM
 
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Here's a good article about the local housing market and how builders are dealing with the coronavirus situation. Neal is currently selling houses at about one third the rate compared to before the COVID-19 outbreak.

Lakewood Ranch builders brace for COVID-19 impact:
https://news.google.com/articles/CBM...S&ceid=US%3Aen

Sales fall, but builders are confident it's a short-term impact in Manatee and Sarasota counties.

OPEN OR SHUT
Lakewood Ranch builders have models open for viewing, but many have made changes to how they can be viewed and are adding extra cleaning, screening and other health and safety precautions. By builder, here is the status of whether models are open:

Models open: Freedom Homes by D.R. Horton and Lee Wetherington

Models open by appointment only: Anchor Builders of Southwest Florida, Arthur Rutenberg Homes, Del Webb, Divosta, Homes by Towne (at Waterside), John Cannon Homes, Kolter Homes, Lennar Homes, M/I Homes, Mattamy Homes, Meritage Homes, Neal Communities, Neal Signature Homes, Pulte Homes, Stock Signature Homes, Toll Bros., WCI

Models closed: Cardel Homes (offering appointments), Homes by Towne (at Waterfront at Main Street), Taylor Morrison (offering virtual appointments)

More information: LakewoodRanch.com/our-homes/builders
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Old 04-16-2020, 04:48 PM
 
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Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/...-to-treatment/

APRIL 16, 2020

"A Chicago hospital treating severe Covid-19 patients with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral medicine remdesivir in a closely watched clinical trial is seeing rapid recoveries in fever and respiratory symptoms, with nearly all patients discharged in less than a week, STAT has learned.

Remdesivir was one of the first medicines identified as having the potential to impact SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19, in lab tests. The entire world has been waiting for results from Gilead’s clinical trials, and positive results would likely lead to fast approvals by the Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory agencies. If safe and effective, it could become the first approved treatment against the disease."
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Old 04-17-2020, 12:44 PM
 
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IMO there still needs to be more testing for Covid-19 before Florida can safely open up in a big way.

A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat:
https://news.google.com/articles/CAI...S&ceid=US%3Aen

"Few figures tell you anything useful about how the coronavirus has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.

According to the Tracking Project’s figures, nearly one in five people who get tested for the coronavirus in the United States is found to have it. In other words, the country has what is called a “test-positivity rate” of nearly 20 percent.

America’s 20 percent positivity rate is disquieting. The U.S. did almost 25 times as many tests on April 15 as on March 15, yet both the daily positive rate and the overall positive rate went up in that month. If the U.S. were a jar of 330 million jelly beans, then over the course of the outbreak, the health-care system has reached in with a bigger and bigger scoop. But every day, 20 percent of the beans it pulls out are positive for COVID-19. If the outbreak were indeed under control, then we would expect more testing—that is, a larger scoop—to yield a smaller and smaller proportion of positives. So far, that hasn’t happened."


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Coronavirus: Florida trails 20 states in COVID-19 testing:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...emplate=ampart

"Testing results reported by the Department of Health seem to be falling off from the peak of 15,469 on April 9 to 14,788 on Wednesday evening. Experts contend the opposite needs to happen.

Florida is behind 20 other states, including neighboring Louisiana and Mississippi, when it comes to testing its residents for coronavirus.

Testing is crucial to limiting the spread of the pandemic. Yet Floridians around the state, including the most vulnerable, report significant difficulties getting tested."

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Old 04-17-2020, 02:09 PM
 
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Beaches to start re-opening tonight in Florida?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-EVENING.html
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Old 04-17-2020, 02:27 PM
 
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Beaches to start re-opening tonight in Florida?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-EVENING.html
Thanks for posting that. Jacksonville beaches to be the first to open. Biking, walking and swimming will be allowed but sunbathing is still banned. Even this limited opening goes against Trump's re-opening recommendations that Covid-19 cases should have declined for 14 days.

IMO if Siesta Key Beach opens up "soon" it could be a disaster waiting to happen. Even if they don't allow "sunbathing" - how would they enforce something like that? And expecting people to follow social distancing on Siesta Key Beach could be wishful thinking - just look at what a disaster it was when Florida beaches stayed open during spring break.

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Old 04-17-2020, 05:11 PM
 
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I didn't see the following things mentioned in the Daily Mail article about the Jacksonville beaches opening:

Beaches will be open from 6 to 11 a.m. and from 5 to 8 p.m. according to Jacksonville's website.

Items like towels, blankets, chairs, coolers and grills will not be permitted on the beach.

https://news.google.com/articles/CAI...S&ceid=US%3Aen
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Old 04-18-2020, 07:33 AM
 
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Thanks for posting that. Jacksonville beaches to be the first to open. Biking, walking and swimming will be allowed but sunbathing is still banned. Even this limited opening goes against Trump's re-opening recommendations that Covid-19 cases should have declined for 14 days.

IMO if Siesta Key Beach opens up "soon" it could be a disaster waiting to happen. Even if they don't allow "sunbathing" - how would they enforce something like that? And expecting people to follow social distancing on Siesta Key Beach could be wishful thinking - just look at what a disaster it was when Florida beaches stayed open during spring break.
Anytime in the past a Florida beach has been photographed as teeming with people it's always SPRING BREAK.

Right now the beaches would never look like that.

So sick of people perpetuating this myth. We went to Englewood the last day it was open. Crazy busy. Parking lot full. HOWEVER ... The parking lot does not allow that many people to get on the beach. There was no problem with social distance. At all.

Can we please live in REALITY? Not pretend that the 1 picture the media showed of 1 beach during spring break is what happens 24/7/365 here in Sarasota County?
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Old 04-18-2020, 08:14 AM
 
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Anytime in the past a Florida beach has been photographed as teeming with people it's always SPRING BREAK.

Right now the beaches would never look like that.

So sick of people perpetuating this myth. We went to Englewood the last day it was open. Crazy busy. Parking lot full. HOWEVER ... The parking lot does not allow that many people to get on the beach. There was no problem with social distance. At all.

Can we please live in REALITY? Not pretend that the 1 picture the media showed of 1 beach during spring break is what happens 24/7/365 here in Sarasota County?
Agreed.

I was in Nokomis Beach the day before it closed, beaches were crowded BUT people took social distancing seriously even then. Each group had less than 10 people and we were at least 10 ft apart from each other, if not more. The beach was big enough to accommodate crowd and social distancing.
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Old 04-18-2020, 08:31 AM
 
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I also don’t understand this whole insistence on testing. It’s not like, once tested negative you’re done. You could have negative testing now and get infected 10 minutes later from somewhere.
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Old 04-18-2020, 08:53 AM
 
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I also don’t understand this whole insistence on testing. It’s not like, once tested negative you’re done. You could have negative testing now and get infected 10 minutes later from somewhere.
Compliance. That's why. Get the whole population to do what govt says.

So govt is trying to brainwash people to test test test. Compound that with lack of tests? People listen to test test test mantra all day long ... people start to DEMAND tests. For themselves for their neighbors for the butcher the baker the candlestick maker ...

Suddenly govt has the people doing govt's job for it. Govt doesn't need to mandate tests. People have already decreed it must. be. so.

Only: people think it was THEIR idea, not govt. Because everybody knows govt is stupid and incompetent. People are SO much smarter ... wink wink.

With no realization how people have been manipulated, they do exactly as govt planned all along.
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