Florida attorney and campaigner Daniel Uhlfelder morphed into the Grim Reaper to stalk public beaches. He took the metaphorically coloured decision to raise awareness about the potential pitfalls of reopening Florida’s economy too soon while the novel coronavirus still poses considerable threat.
Footage of interviews with the personification of death and pictures posted on social media quickly went viral. Uhlfelder told CNN that “we aren’t at the point now where we have enough testing, enough data, enough preparation for what’s going to be coming to our state from all over the world from this pandemic.
“I know how beautiful and attractive our beaches are. But if we don’t take measures to control things, this virus is going to get really, really out of control.”
Florida has recorded more than 1,300 coronavirus deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic.
