6 Responses to “Escambia County COVID-19 Hospitalizations Trend Downward”

1. Lynda on January 29th, 2021 11:21 pm

   @CJ and @SueP Maybe you could apply and work at Wal-Mart and see just how hard it is to try to get the people to wear a mask. When the Sheriff comes out the day it’s announced and says they won’t enforce any of it, and the customers refuse, and just dare you to try and make them wear a mask, these companies cannot put their associates in harms way of being physically attacked. Did you see what happened at the Capitol on January 6th? That is the kind of people they are dealing with. No regard for their country, their fellow citizens, law or order… And they THINK they are Patriotic???

2. Jay on January 29th, 2021 4:10 pm

   CJ Lewis – You are trying to talk rational and logical to the people of Northwest Florida, which is basically a waste of your time. The people here allow their entire worldview to be dictated to them by people that are totally anti-science (which shouldn’t be a thing), anti-mask (which shouldn’t be a thing), and have been trying to downplay the seriousness of this virus from the beginning (for reasons that are hard to comprehend).
   If you are wanting to find people that listen to the rational things you are saying, then you need to move somewhere else, because the people here won’t believe it unless it is told to them by their favorite pundits on TV or AM radio.

3. SueP on January 29th, 2021 8:30 am

   I agree with C.L.Lewis – Walmart can but refuses to mandate customers to wear masks. In addition, no reports of how many people have truly survived Covid-19. Exhaustion, can’t hardly move your body even to get out of bed is the biggest complaint of Covid-19.

4. CJ Lewis on January 28th, 2021 4:34 pm

   Just to be clear should anyone in North County be thinking about venturing down into the COVID-19 hell storm in the City of Pensacola, the city’s mask ordinance is by design “not” being enforced by the Robinson Administration. With the exception of Fresh Market where everyone always wears a mask, you can pretty much go into just about any store in the city and find people without masks to include those being helped by staff and those checking out. Store owners, managers and employees turn a blind eye because they know the City will not back them up. Some stores are better than others. As example, the Publix in East Hill is better than the Publix on 9th Avenue and the Winn Dixie on Bayou is better than the Winn Dixie on 9th Avenue. Apple Market is not good. The worst place in the city is the Walmart on Creighton. I’ve been in there and counted 13 people not wearing masks within just the first five minutes. I stopped counting. The last time I was in the store, I counted 30 people without masks during my 45 minute visit. In other smaller businesses, no one wears a mask and no one says anything about it. Further, being in restaurants is certainly not safe. This past Saturday, my wife and I went out to eat for her birthday in downtown. This is the first time we’d eaten out since early 2019. We had to wear a mask to walk from the entrance to our seat about 20 feet away. Obviously, none of the 50 or so people in the restaurant wore masks so the risk was high. You had to put on your mask to walk to the restroom and again when you got up to leave the restaurant. Of note, everyone wears a mask in the Tractor Store on Nine Mile Road. Politicians seem eager to ignore the fact that not dying from COVID-19 is not the same as no longer having any problems. I talked to a neighbor a few days ago who told me that her 71-year old brother-in-law who had COVID-19 cannot work any more and is now constantly exhausted and a little big foggy in the head. The above chart and graph are deceptive for two reasons. The chart documents from December 24 (160 hospitalizations) to January 27 (200 hospitalizations) but the graph only starts with January 14. Obviously, that tactic, and the practice of not showing the full range from 0 to 300, is intended to make it look as if there is now a dramatic decline. In truth, another way of looking at this specific data is that hospitalizations from December 24 to January 27 are “up” 25%, 200 (January 27) being 25% higher than 160 (December 24). Right now, the numbers seem unreal. However, when someone begins to review coroner records to put together a list of the names of those who died from COVID-19 in Escambia County, it will seem more personal and so more real.

5. Shannon L Barnes on January 28th, 2021 4:28 pm

   We’ve had 57 deaths reported this month so far, most in the last week. That makes the decreasing number of hospitalized slightly less impressive.

6. Bill on January 28th, 2021 3:58 am

   Too bad they can’t bring the dead back to life.