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Florida’s record COVID-19 case surge leading to long lines for tests
NY Post ^ | 08/02/2021 | Jackie Salo

Posted on 08/02/2021 8:36:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Floridians are waiting in line for hours to get tested for COVID-19, as the state grapples with record-breaking case numbers.

The line began forming around 6 a.m. Sunday at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site at Barnett Park — three hours before the Orange County facility opened, Spectrum News reported.

Hundreds of cars wrapped around the site, which has recently had to turn people away before its normal closing time because it’s reached capacity, the outlet reported.

“Constituents are struggling to get in & many can’t wait several hours for a test,” State Rep. Anna Eskamani wrote on Twitter.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: covid; desantis; florida; lines; morefakeresults; morefaketests; ohnoes; rondesantis; tests; wereallgonnadie
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More people with the sniffles getting a false positive. Leading to CASES RISING!!!!!!!!!!!
1 posted on 08/02/2021 8:36:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Positive tests results=positive test results.


2 posted on 08/02/2021 8:38:07 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I live in central Florida and not hearing any big panic. A few friends had it and one went in yesterday with covid but only needed fluids. Was released this morning.


3 posted on 08/02/2021 8:38:29 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All in a vain attempt to shut down Florida.


4 posted on 08/02/2021 8:39:57 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

You can tell the left fear DeSantis.
Media do anything they can to trash him and Florida.


5 posted on 08/02/2021 8:41:11 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: CodeToad

It isn’t going to work. Gottlied said this morning that Florida’s R0-values are already trending down. That’s a VERY good sign. They should see a rapid decline in cases starting in the next few days, or weeks.


6 posted on 08/02/2021 8:42:24 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: glimmerman70

Agreed. Lots of fear porn, but I went grocery shopping yesterday and very few masks. I am in a liberal area where masks were 70-80% masked for a few weeks even after the CDC dropped their requirement. Maybe 20% at most last night and that was mostly older people and clearly left wingers who likely never stopped masking for ‘the cause’.


7 posted on 08/02/2021 8:43:08 AM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This issue was addressed the day before yesterday on FR. The spike is due to release of data not in real time but after it had been collected over time. Different states release data on their own schedules making comparisons difficult.

If you want to read about this here is the FR post:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3981006/posts


8 posted on 08/02/2021 8:43:32 AM PDT by packagingguy (Kit)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

They are having to back off their BS story since people are onto them and don’t believe the crap the left-wing propagandists put out. People go to these hospitals and see for themselves that they are lying.


9 posted on 08/02/2021 8:45:43 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

The more tests the more cases....


10 posted on 08/02/2021 8:49:02 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Gates and Soros purchased the main rapid COVID testing company which creates a perverse incentive because Bill Gates also has controlling influence in most of the Major Vaccine companies.

'Ovem lupo commitere!’
11 posted on 08/02/2021 8:50:56 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ilgipper; All

I ordered a couple of these (double incognito). We’ll see how they look.

fakemaskusa.com


12 posted on 08/02/2021 8:51:16 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Hojczyk

Self fulfilling. The more you test, the more cases you find. Friggin idiots


13 posted on 08/02/2021 8:52:12 AM PDT by Roklok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Test positivity increased only 2.8 percent (15.3 to 18.1 percent) from last week. Number of cases increased 52 percent.

Number of deaths weekly hasn’t changed much over the last three months.


14 posted on 08/02/2021 8:54:12 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: ilgipper

Yeah I am seeing more masks laying on the ground in the parking lots then on people’s faces. And it’s crazy that they are wearing cloth masks that do nothing but restrict breathing.


15 posted on 08/02/2021 8:57:25 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: CodeToad

The recent purchase by Gates and Soros of the main rapid COVID testing company is interesting. It creates major perverse incentives like diagnosing vaccinated people negative, diagnosing unvaccinated people positive, or even infect people with COVID. How does it create perverse incentives? Bill Gates has controlling interests in most of the Major Vaccine companies.

‘Ovem lupo commitere!’


16 posted on 08/02/2021 8:58:53 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ilgipper

” Maybe 20% at most last night and that was mostly older people “

IOW - the people most at risk from COVID who should be more careful.

I have no problem with those at high risk being overly cautious.


17 posted on 08/02/2021 8:59:16 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: rktman

Early on I could not understand why everyone wanted a test. Here in central Alabama, every little town had long lines of cars around the town square. People were getting a swab way up in the nose. They were not sick. I am not getting tested unless I am sick. Crazy.


18 posted on 08/02/2021 9:00:59 AM PDT by Himyar (Comes A Stillness/ God Bless Robert E. Lee)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A vain, ham-fisted attempt to get at DeSantis. Won’t work -— he knows the score, and this won’t move him.


19 posted on 08/02/2021 9:01:42 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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There's a surge in testing, that's all. It's like free food panties, if you give away bags of food, you will undoubtedly get people and brand new cars driving thru for their free stuff. The more we test the more people with no symptoms will be found.
20 posted on 08/02/2021 9:03:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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