By HENRY FREDERICK / Headline Surfer
LAKE MARY, Fla. -- Seminole County Tax Collector announced earlier today that he has tested positivce for the coronavirus.
"Today, May 28th, I tested positive for COVID and I will be doing a self quarantine for the next two weeks," Greenberg said in a post on his Facebook page.
"I didn't even know that I was sick, of course, and I only went down to get the antibody test, and after the first test they said they wanted to test me again, so I figured something was up," Greenberg explained, adding, "I want everyone to take this as sort of a notice and reminder that anybody can come down with this. I feel fine, but there are people who are more at risk, and at in a higher risk category and age group than I am. So I'll get through this fine."
Greenberg said the positve test was a complete surprise as he hadn't shown any symptoms.
"My wife didn't believe me at first, she thought I was using this as a way to get out of a weekend with the in-laws," Greenberg said, things at home are just fine. "But no, I can confirm I did test positive, so I'll be self-quarantining. I'm going to self-quarantine for two weeks, and I'll be fine. I'll get through this."
Greenberg had some practical advice to share: "Everyone be careful, you know, wash your hands regularly, get tested, and we move forward. ... This can happen to anybody."
Greenberg posted to Twitter in April, "We need to open the [expletive] economy. Burning down the house in order to save it is not working and total bull [expletive]. Enough already. Time to disobey the orders and stand up to our civil liberties being [expletive] on," later deleting the tweet.
“(I just) wanted to give you an update today, May 28th… I tested positive for COVID-19, and I will be doing a self-quarantine for the next two weeks. I feel fine. I didn’t even know that I was sick, of course. I went down to get the antibody test. And after the first test, they said they wanted to test me again, so I figured something was up. And after the second test, they were moving a little more carefully and cautiously around me. The doctor’s eyes got kind of big, and [he] told me that I had indeed tested positive for COVID, twice, to make sure that the tests weren’t faulty… other people were tested who all tested negative. So, I tested. Now I will quarantine."
Greenberg has been the Seminole County Tax Collector since January of 2017 and has been a vocal opponent against some restrictions placed on Seminole County because of the pandemic, even alluding to disobeying orders from the county or state.
In Seminole County, 465 people have tested positive for COVID-19, with 12 deaths. In Florida, there have been 52,255 positive tests, with 2,259 deaths. In the US, 1.75 million have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, with over 103,000 dying.