VOX ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN THE FLORIDA CORONAVIRUS ANOMALY.

It's Vox, so expect a little coastal condescension with your explanation.  "As Thomas Hladish, a research scientist at the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, put it to me, the Florida outbreak is 'a puzzle that still has to be explained.'" There's no mention of possible early generally asymptomatic spread during the Super Bowl.  What do they see?  First, people being more careful about going out in public, even before any proclamations from the state house.  (That's no big surprise.)  Second, Florida isn't as thickly settled as metro New York City or much of the Official Region.  Watch for a faction fight among the technocratically inclined.  Business as usual still goes on among the urban transportation types over whether New York's subways or its expressways are the infrastructure most conducive to contagion.  (I'm sitting that one out, it just doesn't interest me.)  Third, maybe sunlight IS the best disinfectant.

There's one element missing from that analysis, and I believe it's important.  On one of yesterday's news broadcasts, I heard reference to Florida quarantining its rest homes expeditiously.  That's the complete opposite of New York, where infected patients were sent back to their rest homes, and what happened next was not amusing.  In the Chicago area, the rest homes have also been hit particularly hard, with a chain called Symphony having outbreaks at at least two locations.  Advertising dollars are reacting accordingly, with the Service Employees International Union buying time on the radio to advocate for hazardous duty pay and the issuance of better protective gear; and if you point your search engine at "nursing homes" in general or any operator in particular, you're likely to see advertisments from law firms chasing, well, not ambulances.

The public policy take-away: protect the vulnerable populations.  Stop the shutdown theater.