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What are your realistic expectations of when and how the beaches will re-open?
- Thread starter Eunice
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The Fed and States need our tax $$$$$. Hospitals are losing their ass on this sh!t, too. Hospitals are VERY FOR PROFIT entities run by bean counters and the govt won't be able to afford to float them. That's why this can't and won't go into June.
I hope California beaches are opened again by the end of April, but i'd bet on the end of May...
Pfffft...
But hey,
1 of thee OG 13 Colonies,
The 4th state, Georgia, recently done did this, yow~za!!!
As of Friday night, Georgia state beaches are open once again, though visitors are required to follow social-distancing guidelines.
And in our 50th state, Hawaii, beaches are open still!
Right on!!!
Pfffft...
But hey,
1 of thee OG 13 Colonies,
The 4th state, Georgia, recently done did this, yow~za!!!
As of Friday night, Georgia state beaches are open once again, though visitors are required to follow social-distancing guidelines.
And in our 50th state, Hawaii, beaches are open still!
Right on!!!
I am hoping the general feeling/belief/media truth of the day gets us to a climax, I'm sorry, apex a lot sooner than a steady ramp up dragging April into May into June ... It's bad. It's dark. Scary. So is trying to hide half the year surviving on media and internet daily pukings. I can do this for about three more weeks myself.
I'm getting ready to re-read some classics to see if I might not end up in a better place.
Summer must happen.
I'm getting ready to re-read some classics to see if I might not end up in a better place.
Summer must happen.
Good thing I switched careers to an underpaid, under thanked, under respected profession like teaching. School will go on!
Short of a miracle you can forget about surfing for a very long time.
Due to decades of complacency the US does not have the means in place to control even a major epidemic in this country.
That's going to keep the beaches closed for at least a year, probably longer.
After this first wave people are going to want to / have to go back to work and simply deal with the consequences of the virus. Lotta people probably going to die but the feds/state govmts are going to simply go along with demands of the people to return to a level of some normalcy. Feds/state govmts already know this has to happen - they're just going to "let the people choose" so to speak. And people are going to be demanding and end to lockdown and a desire not to lose their business and be able to put food in their kid's mouths.
After lockdown ends the second wave begins.
The second wave will consist of epidemics popping up around the country like little (or maybe big) fires.
Group activities will make these epidemics much larger and much more difficult maintain some level of containment of the epidemics.
Thus, beaches and parks will stay closed along with bars/gathering places/events.
Restaurants will open with strict seating guidelines.
Social distancing will remain in place basically everywhere.
Unemployment is going to be high and we will be in a depression.
Surfing will be the last thing on many of our minds.
Due to decades of complacency the US does not have the means in place to control even a major epidemic in this country.
That's going to keep the beaches closed for at least a year, probably longer.
After this first wave people are going to want to / have to go back to work and simply deal with the consequences of the virus. Lotta people probably going to die but the feds/state govmts are going to simply go along with demands of the people to return to a level of some normalcy. Feds/state govmts already know this has to happen - they're just going to "let the people choose" so to speak. And people are going to be demanding and end to lockdown and a desire not to lose their business and be able to put food in their kid's mouths.
After lockdown ends the second wave begins.
The second wave will consist of epidemics popping up around the country like little (or maybe big) fires.
Group activities will make these epidemics much larger and much more difficult maintain some level of containment of the epidemics.
Thus, beaches and parks will stay closed along with bars/gathering places/events.
Restaurants will open with strict seating guidelines.
Social distancing will remain in place basically everywhere.
Unemployment is going to be high and we will be in a depression.
Surfing will be the last thing on many of our minds.
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Beaches will remain closed and will likely open last as it will be impossible for the powers that be to enforce social distancing.
Have the mayor say they're re-opening the beaches, and actually enforcing the no alcohol law. If they kept the bars closed and had one guy on a 4-wheeler asking to look into coolers, that'd be almost every single group that's not a family, and half the families. No alcohol is posted at basically every place it's possible to access sand in Duval County, but generally if you're using a coozy on cans and not littering your empties around your group, it's never enforced.
Have people in the full on biohazard sh!t taze and Covid-test anyone who argues; those are exactly the people that are going WalMart 4x/week during lockdown.
Have people in the full on biohazard sh!t taze and Covid-test anyone who argues; those are exactly the people that are going WalMart 4x/week during lockdown.
One jr. lifeguard on a 4-wheeler with a radio and a bulletproof vest. Done.
IMHO the problem is the people who are already the problem. They're going to argue it out with the police. Make them cuff him. Boom. Transmission of Covid. Just to try to be a squeaky wheel like always.
He'll find his place in the Guiness Book of World Records for most "FUCK YOU"s ever received in a day.
Keep the fishing piers and pavillions closed, take down the volleyball nets. Keep the bars closed. Enforce the existing no-alcohol laws in Cocoa Beach, Daytona Beach, and Jacksonville Beach. Have the local surfers tag "I have the 'rona" on the handrailings in wax. Could probably open everything from Martin County to Georgia.
