Posted on 04/20/2020 8:45:03 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
The move to reopen beaches has so far been a good one, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, Mayor Charlie Latham said Monday.
“There is [sic] a lot of people that are upset that we’ve opened, but we’re not requiring anybody to go to the beach,” the mayor said during an interview on Fox & Friends.
In answer to critics who said allowing people back on the beaches was the wrong move during the pandemic, Latham said social distancing rules were still in place and people were not allowed to lay out.
“You’re not allowed to have coolers. You’re not allowed to have chairs or even towels to lay out on,” he noted.
“If you want to run, jog, swim, surf, fish, you can do that, but you still need to maintain the social distancing requirement and if they don’t, we tend to educate first and then we warn second and then we take action third,” Latham continued.
The beaches will be open from six to 11 a.m. and five to 8 p.m. and groups of more than ten people are prohibited, according to Fox News.
Saturday during a White House press briefing, Dr. Deborah Birx said if Florida health officials believed it was safe for residents to go to the beaches, she would not “second judge an individual’s approach to this.”
“They have some of the best county public health individuals I have ever had to deal with, they are amazing,” she concluded.
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like offices :)
You don’t stay in your office 24/7.
At least I hope not. :)
lol no.
The Freezer Fauci Fluffers will be along in a minute to state the mayor is killing people.
It’s a start. ....
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Not good enough. No need to bow to needless social distancing for this flu-like illness.
I don’t know what day the beach opened, but we’ll know if it was a good decision roughly two weeks after that day in my non-medical opinion.
The hours of operation are strange.
We all know that sunlight kills the virus, so the beach should be open during hours of maximum sunlight, say 10 AM to 4 PM. This will allow plenty of time to enjoy and minimize any potential for spreading.
As long as they don’t act like it’s spring break, they’ll be fine.
Having worked in NYC years ago I can tell you the New York City subway system is the world biggest underground urinal. It stinks of piss from one end of it to the other.
If you aren’t allowed to have chairs, coolers or towels to lay on then either the picture is fake or they aren’t enforcing the rules.
It’s probably file footage, since the beaches only opened Friday evening and it’s been rainy and windy off and on since then.
The cops are out there wasting their time patrolling to make sure nobody gets too close (meanwhile, young black men are still killing other young black men in NW JAX). Local pictures have shown people walking or jogging, and the coolers have been with the fishermen (who need them for what they catch).
You must have really noticed the EXPLOSION in cases and deaths among essential workers outside the hospitals (that didn’t happen), right?
Right?
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