‘If I die, I die’: Florida retirees grapple as coronavirus cases soar (LA Times)

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. —  Gone are the weekly bingo games at Temple Beth Am. Gone too are the daily shuttles around the golf course and the Friday bus trips to the mall.

A vast game room, typically full of bridge players, is locked up.

“Nothing,” said Carol Friedman, a 70-year-old resident of Wynmoor, a South Florida retirement community of 9,000 residents, just a few miles from the ocean shore. “Can’t do nothing now. Everyone just sits here bored.”

“I don’t want to get sick,” Friedman continued with a shrug, as she complained of dried-up tips from her job at the on-property restaurant after it switched to takeout. “But if I die, I die…”

To read the entire article from Los Angeles Times, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/coronavirus-florida-retirement-elderly-villages

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