The tourist vs. residents being in the hospitals is an interesting take, I will look into that, although I am not sure if info is available. At one point DeathSentence was not including non-residents, because it helps with the stats
Nevertheless, if I am in a car accident down there and I die because of the ICU is full of dumbass unvaxxed covid patients, I don't really care if they are tourists or residents. So FL may get a bad reputation although it is the "tourists" that fucks up their stats, I say it is the unvaxxed unpatriotic irresponsible people who do that, irregardless of residency.
Since I am a number's kind of guy:
FL's population: 21.5 MM
Baron: 70 MM/year tourists
Most vacations are a week long. With an even distribution over the year (I know it is not) that would give FL 70/50=1.4 MM extra people per week.
Even if I account for non-even distribution, and say during the summer it is 5 times more people than the weekly average, that is 7 MM extra, or 30% more than the usual residency.
Guess what? FL's Covid numbers are not 30% but 3 times more than the average US numbers.
So no, it is NOT the tourists....(I am not saying they don't contribute to the spread, but they are not filling up the hospitals instead of the residents) Texas doesn't have as much tourists as FL, yet they are in the very same situation. So are Mississippi and Louisiana.
Nevertheless, if I am in a car accident down there and I die because of the ICU is full of dumbass unvaxxed covid patients, I don't really care if they are tourists or residents. So FL may get a bad reputation although it is the "tourists" that fucks up their stats, I say it is the unvaxxed unpatriotic irresponsible people who do that, irregardless of residency.
Since I am a number's kind of guy:
FL's population: 21.5 MM
Baron: 70 MM/year tourists
Most vacations are a week long. With an even distribution over the year (I know it is not) that would give FL 70/50=1.4 MM extra people per week.
Even if I account for non-even distribution, and say during the summer it is 5 times more people than the weekly average, that is 7 MM extra, or 30% more than the usual residency.
Guess what? FL's Covid numbers are not 30% but 3 times more than the average US numbers.
So no, it is NOT the tourists....(I am not saying they don't contribute to the spread, but they are not filling up the hospitals instead of the residents) Texas doesn't have as much tourists as FL, yet they are in the very same situation. So are Mississippi and Louisiana.
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