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Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced at a press conference in St. Petersburg today that the state is lifting pandemic restrictions on restaurants and other businesses in the state.
“There will not be limitations from the state of Florida,” DeSantis said, noting that there could still be local measures, but that they would have to be formally justified. “The order that I’m signing guarantees that restaurants can operate at a minimum 50 percent capacity [indoors] regardless of local rules, and if the local restricts between 50 and 100 they’ve got to provide a justification and they’ve got to identify what the costs involved with doing that are.”
DeSantis expressed empathy with the restaurant industry, which operates on razor-thin margins, and said that it was not a viable solution to wait until up to a year after there’s a vaccine for life to return to normal. He said that restaurants take safety measures seriously, and that coronavirus resources should be most focused on the vulnerable elderly population.
Per Worldometers, Florida has had 648 deaths per million of population attributable to Covid-19; while it is the 12th highest state in that metric, it is in the neighborhood of the USA total of 628 deaths per million of population.
Two Counties are defying DeSantis and I live in one. Nobody wears masks anymore Or anywhere the public is free, but the minute you walk Into a building here in Tampa/Saint Pete, the mask police are called.
They extended the mask fiasco and most businesses are terrified to let people in without masks.
This stuff is crazy.
Finally. We will see what Valerie’s husband says for orange county Florida
Good job Florida!
Its about time govt gets off the backs of business owners actually the American people for that matter our rights have been trampled on way past long enough.
We have the best governor in the US. And that’s saying a lot from someone who hates 95% of politicians.
He’s definitely up there! Noem of S. Dakota and Kemp of Georgia are pretty good too. Thank God you got DeSantis and not that phony Gillum.
Gov. Abbott of Texas appears to on the same napping schedule as Joe Biden. Freedom and liberty my ass. Words, empty words.
Well how nice there never should have been any restrictions to begin with and he’s supposed to be a conservative R he should have followed Kristi Noam the Gov of SD never shut anything down no restrictions. She has said her citizens are smart enough to make their own choices and shes right we have a R gov here in AZ what a disappointment he was is acted just like a D and there were too many like him.