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Immokalee testing

seminole97

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Deployed down to Collier county to help with COVID testing by DOH.

Observations:

Holy shit Immokalee is poor. I’ve only seen the name as a place players can hail from in NCAA football. I can’t fathom anyone who leaves Immokalee desiring to return. It’s like Jamaica without potholes and fewer cinder blocks.
Opened at 11AM with a decent line, processed 111 samples in the first hour, but only 40 more in the 2.5 hours since.
They’re telling folks results will take 7-10 days, but I’m overhearing that the labs usually reach out on positive results within 3 days.
It’s hot as balls outside.
 
Deployed down to Collier county to help with COVID testing by DOH.

Observations:

Holy shit Immokalee is poor. I’ve only seen the name as a place players can hail from in NCAA football. I can’t fathom anyone who leaves Immokalee desiring to return. It’s like Jamaica without potholes and fewer cinder blocks.
Opened at 11AM with a decent line, processed 111 samples in the first hour, but only 40 more in the 2.5 hours since.
They’re telling folks results will take 7-10 days, but I’m overhearing that the labs usually reach out on positive results within 3 days.
It’s hot as balls outside.
I did a summer internship in Naples (Calusa Pines GC) and went to the casino in Immokalee a few times. Decided to drive around the area the first time we went to gamble and holy shite...it was eye-opening.
 
I did a summer internship in Naples (Calusa Pines GC) and went to the casino in Immokalee a few times. Decided to drive around the area the first time we went to gamble and holy shite...it was eye-opening.

I believe the casino is closed. Entrance barricaded with some kind (tribal? - not the green and white you see on sheriffs in Florida) of cop car parked behind it.
 
I believe the casino is closed. Entrance barricaded with some kind (tribal? - not the green and white you see on sheriffs in Florida) of cop car parked behind it.
I definitely sat next to some interesting folks in that place!
 
Is it mandatory in Immokalee to park vehicles on your lawn and to arrange piles of trash and clutter around the perimeter of your domicile? Sure looks like it.
 
We tested 400 yesterday, 241 today.
The site will be closed Fri-Sun, then I'll be back next week through Friday before heading back home Saturday.

We've been polling them as to why they're getting tested. Plurality seeking negative result to return to work after someone at their job site was positive, or they were positive themselves.

We've really only had a line that extended outside the building (a dozen people spaced) at the start of the day testing, or when we've been forced to close down for lightning (they're conducting the swabs outside).
 
How does Goodland compare to Immokalee?
I like Little Bar.
 
Toured a potato farm in Immokalee back in 2003. Drove over from Palm Springs. At the time my aunt said it had the highest rate of HIV/AIDS cases per capita in the U.S.
 
If you keep an "emergency $100" hidden somewhere in your wallet or vehicle, you're currently one of the wealthiest people in Immokalee.
 
Deployed down to Collier county to help with COVID testing by DOH.

Observations:

Holy shit Immokalee is poor. I’ve only seen the name as a place players can hail from in NCAA football. I can’t fathom anyone who leaves Immokalee desiring to return. It’s like Jamaica without potholes and fewer cinder blocks.
Opened at 11AM with a decent line, processed 111 samples in the first hour, but only 40 more in the 2.5 hours since.
They’re telling folks results will take 7-10 days, but I’m overhearing that the labs usually reach out on positive results within 3 days.
It’s hot as balls outside.

Is this a reservation?
 
Another snap shot of the extent of pervasive poverty in our country. Many peeps think Florida is only populated by high rollers.
Immokalee, Belle Glade and most of the muck area towns were that same way when I drove thru there with my dad back decades ago. Big sugar never did equate to good pay or living conditions. Or benign environmental actions...
 
Is this a reservation?

I don’t cross any kind of border, so I’m not aware that it is. The ‘cop car’ parked blocking the casino says “Seminole Police” on the door and has the Seminole flag on its front plate. So based on that I assume the tribe has their own police force.
 
I don’t cross any kind of border, so I’m not aware that it is. The ‘cop car’ parked blocking the casino says “Seminole Police” on the door and has the Seminole flag on its front plate. So based on that I assume the tribe has their own police force.

Gotcha, is there any reservations thriving I wonder? We were in Montana last summer and drove to Glacier through Browning MT. I’ve seen poor, but that was a gut punch. And they are within eyesight of some of the most beautiful landscape in the entire country.
 
Another snap shot of the extent of pervasive poverty in our country. Many peeps think Florida is only populated by high rollers.
Immokalee, Belle Glade and most of the muck area towns were that same way when I drove thru there with my dad back decades ago. Big sugar never did equate to good pay or living conditions. Or benign environmental actions...

The last few years I have done a bicycle ride (called Lagbrai, started by Iowans) from St. Petes to Orland and then return the next day. I was surprised as some of the living conditions of rural florida. Reminded me a lot of southern Iowa.
 
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The last few years I have done a bicycle ride (called Lagbrai, started by Iowans) from St. Petes to Orland and then return the next day. I was surprised as some of the living conditions of rural florida. Reminded me a lot of southern Iowa.
You should see some of the homes practically in the shadow of the state Capitol building there.
 
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