Florida is a coronavirus hotspot, yet a sheriff banned face masks in his office

[Andy Meek]

• The number of coronavirus cases in Florida has stayed stubbornly high during the coronavirus pandemic in the US, while at the same time opposition within the state to basic health guidance has also remained robust.
• Along those lines, one Florida sheriff in recent days actually banned the wearing of face masks in his office.
• Earlier this week, Florida also broke its number of deaths recorded in a single day from the coronavirus.

Florida has proven to be a bafflingly stubborn outlier throughout most of the coronavirus pandemic in the US thus far, with frustratingly high levels of coronavirus cases and deaths and a correspondingly high presence of anti-maskers and other people who routinely flout public health guidance and other behaviors known to curb the spread of COVID-19. Just this week, for example, we saw the state on Tuesday break its record for the most coronavirus deaths reported in a single day (276), bringing the total number of coronavirus deaths the state has reported thus far to 8,553, according to Florida's department of health. Meantime, the 5,886 new reported cases of the virus brought the state's cumulative case total to almost 543,000 as of the time of this writing -- more than double the number of coronavirus cases reported in all of France as of Wednesday afternoon, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In case you're wondering what accounts for these trends in Florida, episodes like the one we reported on previously (involving an insane viral video of anti-maskers yelling at local lawmakers) provide some context. So does the new revelation that Billy Woods, a sheriff in the central Florida locality of Marion County, has actually banned the wearing of face masks in his office, an edict that applies to both sheriff's deputies as well as visitors to the office.

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