Posted on 03/23/2020 11:31:00 AM PDT by david1292
More than 1.5 billion people around the world have been asked or ordered to stay home to slow the spread of coronavirus, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is refusing to do the same -- and pointing to New York as a reason why.
The Tampa Bay Times reports DeSantis said Monday that New Yorkers are fleeing the state and flocking to Florida to avoid NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s stay-at-home order, a near lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“If you look at what happened in New York, when they did the stay at home order, what did people do?” DeSantis said. “Well, a lot of people fled the city. ... We’re getting huge amounts of people flying in.”
Cuomo ordered all New York state residents to stay home starting Sunday night, with few exceptions, to slow the spread of coronavirus. Most businesses have to send 100 percent of their workers home. Those that stay open, such as grocery stores and pharmacies, must ensure customers stay at least six feet apart; restaurants can still offer drive-thru and takeout food. Gatherings are banned, including house gatherings. Vulnerable people need to stay indoors.
Other states that have similarly banned non-essential businesses or ordered residents to shelter in place include California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Ohio, Oregon, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
DeSantis said at a press conference Monday that he spoke to President Donald Trump on Sunday about Florida seeing an increase in travelers from New York.
“For every action, there’s a reaction,” DeSantis said. “We’re going to consider what makes sense for Florida.”
Trump has largely left states to decide how to respond to coronavirus, but said Sunday he may make a decision at the end of a “15-day period” next week.
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“At least there are no elderly in Florida. s/
Florida is going to be a mess in a month.”
Or less. Friends in Orlando say it seems like “business as usual” for many, if not most, people there.
Why? Because he’s not locking down the state the way the liberal governors are?
Trump is likely going to modify his order next week and let some of the economy go back to work.
Will you not vote for him either?
ROTFL!
Police at the airports.
Contain this mess to NY.
I thought that with the closing of Disney World and Paramount the influx would be slowed, but No....the airline traffic over my home in Orlando has not abated.
A couple TSAs working the airport tested positive recently. That should have slowed things, but Nooo! here come more snowbirds. What has a resident of God’s Waiting Room gotta do??
I don’t blame them.
I’d setup barricades at the border.
Need to close the Calif/Arizona borders as well. Californians are driving to the Arizona border towns and are cleaning out the grocery stores.
Pretty sure he is referring to the tunnels out of Manhattan.
Desantis better wake up or we will be a NY cluster soon .
NYC is 3% of the US population, and has 40% of all the US Covid-19 cases.
And now numerous self-important NYC jackals want to re-spread the infection to the rest of the nation, to avoid being inconvenienced like the rest of the nation.
Wall off the city, and drag back anyone who has left in the last week.
(Then send in Snake Plisskin)
Pennsylvania is closed unless you have toilet paper or booze
They've been doing that with their politicians and their migratory voters for decades.
And I say that as one who was born in the shadow of NYC
The beaches are closed where I live..and they should open them up..a place to go and still be away from people..
And the New Yorkers have left the area where I live...there is nothing to do....they may come back if they own a home or condo..
They better end this in a week...
Hell WalMart has more people in it than anywhere..add Publix Super Markets..
The lines of people have just relocated from Disney to Publix and WalMart.
If I could, I’d be sitting in 80 degree sunlight on Miami Beach. Salt air. Moist. Windy. Vitamin D. Lots for Kung Flu not to like there.
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