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Old 03-22-2020 | 08:21 AM
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ok, a few other places of concern:

Valet parking - sick person drives somewhere, valet gets in parks car (touching steering wheel) then gets in your car touching steering wheel/door handles.
Same issue as above with car wash

The golf club I am a member at has gone to single use carts, meaning one player per golf cart. Before a round, we clorox wipe the cart down, steering wheel/grab handles/windshield frame etc.

County by county weirdness- Dade, Broward and Palm Beach are 3 of the biggest counties in Florida (2.7mm, 2mm and 1.5mm residents in each)........everything is closed. Martin county (one reported case) is just above Palm Beach, the malls are closed but restaurants/bars are open. The sand bar yesterday in Jupiter easily had 200 boats out there. I crossed 2 bridges and from the boat traffic it looked like a holiday weekend of boating.

Florida has 768 cases, 12 deaths so far (4 were nursing home deaths). Palm Beach has 56 cases, double what it had a few days ago.
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Old 03-22-2020 | 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by speicher lane
^^^^ that's b/c those going through alcohol withdrawn is a medical issue unto itself let alone dealing with the stress of the circumstances ie.. corvid or other states of emergency
or they figure people will get drunk and stay home
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Old 03-22-2020 | 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by open87
Been doing that for years, and if I don't have gloves , I use a paper towel or something. Those things are nasty.
Make that 2 of us.
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Old 03-22-2020 | 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Jupiter Sunsation
or they figure people will get drunk and stay home
for some that is better than talking with family... lol
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Old 03-22-2020 | 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by speicher lane
^^^^ that's b/c those going through alcohol withdrawl is a medical issue unto itself let alone dealing with the stress of the circumstances ie.. corvid or other states of emergency
When I was in school, did a rotation in a neuro icu...... in the unit fridge there was beer. It was explained to me that people were in bad enough condition that adding alcohol withdrawl was not something they wanted to add....
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Old 03-22-2020 | 09:33 AM
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When you took the glove off did you make sure you didn't touch the surface?
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Old 03-22-2020 | 09:34 AM
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Jup,

how can the Restaurants and bars be open when the governor closed all?

and seen this, one
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Old 03-22-2020 | 11:03 AM
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Boating seems low risk to me. Went out yesterday.

Bunces pass was was absolutely mobbed. 300 boats probably. Multiple boats rafted off with 50 folks total on them.
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Old 03-22-2020 | 12:09 PM
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Dade county ramps closed. Big sandbar party on that side yesterday
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Old 03-22-2020 | 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by hogie roll
Dade county ramps closed. Big sandbar party on that side yesterday
I get bars/restaurants...but outdoor stuff?
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