ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County’s mayor is warning the community of protesting during the pandemic, saying unsafe demonstrations could increase the spread of coronavirus. “What I saw happen this weekend was numerous demonstrations occurred in our community.
Large crowds would gather and there were many individuals who were not wearing facial masks and were in immediate surroundings of each other,” Mayor Jerry Demings said Monday during one of the county’s regularly scheduled coronavirus briefings. “That means if one of them had the virus, that virus would spread very quickly and that’s in conflict of what we’ve been trying to do for many months," he said.