Q: "You've said on many occasions that you won't let any local government kick anybody out of their job or shut a business down. Yet here in Miami-Dade County, I'm a talk show host, and I hear from business owners and workers... saying because [we still have] a curfew,...
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"they're getting kicked out of their jobs... after midnight. Why is that still being allowed to happen?"
A: "One, I'm not saying I agree with curfews... but at the same time, what I had to do was prevent anybody from closing a business or shutting an individual down,
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When I first started tracking COVID data at @AlachuaChronic1, I put the articles in the "Health" category. Having no idea that government would mandate behaviors that were recommended by the CDC, I thought people would use the data to make decisions about their own health.
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The idea was that when cases went up, people would limit activities that exposed them to the virus - you know, like when "something is going around" in your community.
2/9
Under this common understanding that we ALL had a year ago, people would limit activities when cases are high and begin to resume them when cases fell.
Of course, what happened was that we were all mandated to limit activities.
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