“I am live on the beach today in Florida to urge citizens to stay home and save lives. In a few minutes, more.” Looking at the camera and microphone in hand, a man dressed as a Grim Reaper has set out to dissuade bathers from getting into the water: it reminds them that the coronavirus is still there, spreading, and that staying home is one of the best measures to combat the epidemic. The idea is the business of a lawyer, Daniel Uhlfelder, who dressed in the characteristic black cape and carrying a scythe, strolls along the beaches of the US State to show off his commitment to public health.
Uhlfelder took a walk a week ago on several beaches in Walton County, which reopened a few days before the de-escalation in the rest of the State, which began with restaurants and shops limited to a quarter of its capacity, while bars, hairdressers and gyms are still closed, picks up CNN. The lawyer was outraged that the beaches were “crowded.” “I know that our beaches are beautiful, but if we do not take measures to control things, this virus will completely escape our control,” he warned.
“When we saw him we got a little scared and he didn’t know exactly what was going on”, has commented to ABC a citizen who was on the beach at the time. Before the cameras of that television, Uhlfelder declared his intentions: “People are going to get sick and for this reason I am here: I wish nobody had to do this, but it is that nobody else does it,” said the lawyer.
It is not the first time that Uhlfelder has given the note in public: He clashed with the former Arkansas governor to protest building a house on a private beach. That is precisely one of his battlefields: he wants all Florida beaches to be public. His new fight against the coronavirus comes when Florida has exceeded 34,000 infections and 1,300 deaths.
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