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Corona outbreak in Florida: “It’s a bad time”

Marc Pitzke, THE MIRROR
“Actually it’s a holiday weekend in the USA, this weekend July 4th is Independence Day, the birthday of the United States. There are always fireworks and barbecues. People flock to the beach and outside and into the parks. That will largely fail this year. “

Instead: loneliness and silence in Miami Beach. Because of the dramatic increase in corona numbers in Florida in the past few days, the beaches were closed again before the holiday weekend.

Marc Pitzke, THE MIRROR
“Guards sit everywhere on the beach steps and chase you away. That means everything is closed. The deck chairs are stacked and the water is splashing like that. These are the most beautiful beaches in America behind me, and they are now idle. Of course for a good cause, namely that people stay healthy and that the pandemic does not spread as widely here. But there is still impatience and also unreasonableness. Here in the restaurants there are many people without mouth guards, and there have also been parties at times were dissolved by the police. “

An assignment by volunteers in Miami: They distribute masks and disinfectants to curb the pandemic – while politics has largely remained silent: Florida had long refused to tighten the regulations again. And this despite the fact that the number of infections and death rates have skyrocketed recently: The “Sunshine State” last counted about 1750,000 infections. There are now several thousand new cases every day. Politics reacted late.

Marc Pitzke, THE MIRROR
“The governor is a Republican Ron DeSantis. He’s a kind of mini-trump, a would-be Trump who always likes to cling to the president and parrot him, and his corona strategy, if you can call it that, mimicking. So eyes shut and through. DeSantis used to say it’s not that bad. Guys, we close late and open early. “

A strategy that is now taking revenge: The Mayor of Miami Beach has now arbitrarily decided to block the beaches for the weekend.

Marc Pitzke, THE MIRROR
“The next few weeks will show how it goes on and whether the United States is even turning the corner or losing the fight against the corona virus. It is a very difficult time here, even though it is a holiday, the country is celebrating its independence. But independent it really isn’t anymore. “

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