The spread of the coronavirus has shut down life at Florida's retirement villages, where social clubs, private dining and golf courses are part of the appeal.
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.“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.”
Northwest of Orlando at the Villages, home to 125,000 retirees, the nightly happy hours at the southwestern-themed Spanish Springs town square have ground to a halt. Pools were recently shut down after residents broke rules against gathering in groups larger than 10. “Everyone is talking about it,” said Patrick O’Brien, 62, who lives on Lucaya Lane with his 77-year-old husband, a lung cancer survivor who has mostly stopped leaving his residence. “And if they’re not talking about it, then it’s their kids and grandkids calling them to talk about it.”
The Coconut Creek development shut down all indoor activities on March 11, before restaurants and bars closed in many states across the country. “I get sick of being inside all day,” said Fish, who is single with no kids. “I just watch ‘Law and Order’ over and over.”
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