Too little too late: The story of how Florida shattered the country's single-day COVID record

[Ban Hammer 12,842]

2 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

If your mission was to be the current user with the most accumulated time outs, you execute well sir 

you still have a slim lead on that.........

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

28 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

There are few who have stayed as long as I after incarceration, that is for sure.  Though one might question who, between us, did more time back in the day...

back in the day for sure. However once I got the mods conditioned and founded the Platinum club, thats all behind me.

I also stopped giving in to certain bad  influences that encouraged me to do things that got me in the joint.😄

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

33 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

you still have a slim lead on that.........

discussion of mod actions in the open forum is a violation of the TOS. Please make like Otis and go to your cell.

 

 

[Ban Hammer 12,842]

1 minute ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

discussion of mod actions in the open forum is a violation of the TOS. Please make like Otis and go to your cell.

 

 

and leave you with tbone begging for upvotes?

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

2 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

and leave you with tbone begging for upvotes?

You got a point. I really want to upvote him its work not to. I do distinctly remember you telling VOR wife, he needed the Platinum plan way more than I do.

Edited October 1, 2020 by Nature Boy 2.0

[laylalex 7,247]

30 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

discussion of mod actions in the open forum is a violation of the TOS. Please make like Otis and go to your cell.

 

 

Who's Otis?

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

12 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Who's Otis?

Back in the day, there was a show called the Andy Griffith show. Mayberry, Barney Fife etc. Otis was the town drunk. He would get drunk and come to Andy's jail and sleep in his cell.

 

Oddly enough he was the only married person on the show 

[laylalex 7,247]

31 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Back in the day, there was a show called the Andy Griffith show. Mayberry, Barney Fife etc. Otis was the town drunk. He would get drunk and come to Andy's jail and sleep in his cell.

 

Oddly enough he was the only married person on the show 

I have vague memories of Andy Griffith -- my grandparents had VHS tapes of it and I remember watching it with them. Their big thing was that it was shot quite close to where their house was. There are still some studios there but the backlot is gone. How weird to think that little town was actually nearer to me than to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKO_Forty_Acres

 

 

[TBoneTX 43,060]

5 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

discussion of mod actions in the open forum is a violation of the TOS.

TOS Boiler's my bible make it yours

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

9 hours ago, laylalex said:

I have vague memories of Andy Griffith -- my grandparents had VHS tapes of it and I remember watching it with them. Their big thing was that it was shot quite close to where their house was. There are still some studios there but the backlot is gone. How weird to think that little town was actually nearer to me than to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKO_Forty_Acres

 

What is really funny is that I grew up on that show because they used to play it every single day on a local station. So my father would have that on every day at 5pm and if it wasn't on when he got home then he turned it on. I am very well acquainted with that show. Also the town where Mayberry is based on is only a hour away from where I lived. 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

10 hours ago, laylalex said:

I have vague memories of Andy Griffith -- my grandparents had VHS tapes of it and I remember watching it with them. Their big thing was that it was shot quite close to where their house was. There are still some studios there but the backlot is gone. How weird to think that little town was actually nearer to me than to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKO_Forty_Acres

 

 

Yeah it was all shot in a studio. Mayberry is based Mount Airy NC. Neat little town. I have been there

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

49 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

What is really funny is that I grew up on that show because they used to play it every single day on a local station. So my father would have that on every day at 5pm and if it wasn't on when he got home then he turned it on. I am very well acquainted with that show. Also the town where Mayberry is based on is only a hour away from where I lived. 

Neat area of the state. I was serious about Otis. He was the only married regular on the show. Got drunk and locked himself in Jail every night

[TBoneTX 43,060]

In addition, word had it that the only actor on the show with a "residuals" clause in his contract was the guy who played Otis.  He might have been wealthier than the chief stars, for a few years.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

didnt know tbat

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

On 9/27/2020 at 1:58 PM, Voice of Reason said:

It's been quite awhile now since we were discussing hospital overwhelmedness, so I thought I'd share today's numbers:

 

17,254 beds available.  43,609 in use (2,104 are covid patients, down from the original 9,000 plus and the 7,145 above) 28.3% available. <<< 955 more beds total as compared to 7 Aug>>>

 

If you take the 955 beds out of the equation, that would put today's hospital load with 26.8% available beds.  Not really all that much different than when covid was a raging fire in Florida.  My postulation that the hospitals were nowhere near being overrun by covid still stands.

Three weeks later...

 

17,181 beds available.  43,684 in use (2,006 covid patients).  Overall bed usage and availability remain fairly constant.  Glad to see the low number of covid patients here in FL for a change.

Edited October 18, 2020 by Voice of Reason