{"id":390555,"date":"2022-01-06T16:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T13:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-florida-is-able-to-forget-the-national-covid-emergency\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T13:01:35","slug":"how-florida-is-able-to-forget-the-national-covid-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-florida-is-able-to-forget-the-national-covid-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Florida is able to forget the national COVID emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How Florida is able to forget the national COVID emergency<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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You often see crazy things in Florida, like the couple I saw zipping up the Gulf Coast\u2019s Route 41 on a motorcycle while the passenger was checking her iPhone, neither one of them wearing a helmet. Be careful, guys, that phone is breakable!<\/p>\n

The greatest feeling about Florida is the sheer \u201cGonna ride this hog wherever it takes me\u201d exuberance. I\u2019ve been down there maybe eight or 10 times during the pandemic and arriving in any airport is like crossing the Wall out of East Berlin. Quite a lot of people wear masks in malls and stores, but most don\u2019t. Nobody mask-shames anybody. You don\u2019t need a vaccine card at all, much less have to dig out your Excelsior Pass three times a day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is because Florida accepts the basic truth that should have been Washington\u2019s guidance from Day 1: If you\u2019re vaccinated, the COVID-19 emergency is over for you; if you\u2019re not, well, the risk is yours.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Florida
Florida has got it figured out: Get vaccinated, then stop worrying about COVID mitigation measures \u2014 and live!<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida schoolchildren have been back in school and unmasked since August 2020. Life is normal for them, except for the amusement value of seeing panicky teachers in masks. New York\u2019s children, like those in many areas where the Democratic Party and its affiliated teachers unions rule, are essentially being used as human shields by educrats committing mass state-sanctioned child abuse until they get good and tired of it. Kids are suffering so badly here that even the New York Times is starting gently to suggest<\/a> that maybe we should take our hands off our children\u2019s throats\u00a0\u2014 masking them, forbidding them to social<\/a>ize and exercise and even talk at lunchtime, canceling their extracurriculars, canceling childhood.<\/p>\n

\"Mandates
Mandates for NYC schoolchildren include masks and elimination of extracurricular activities. By contrast, Florida school kids have been maskless since August 2020.<\/figcaption>
EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The unemployment rate in Florida, heavily dependent on tourism, spiked to 14.2 percent in May 2020, fell to half of that by September and now stands<\/a> at 4.5 percent (as of November). New York? Peaked at 16.6 percent in April 2020, but remains third-worst in the nation at 6.6 percent. In February 2020, that figure stood at 3.9 percent. New York is stacking its own crises on top of the virus problem.<\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s response since the summer of 2020 has been to act as the state embodiment of the Great Barrington Declaration<\/a> in which academics Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff and Sunetra Gupta (of Stanford, Harvard and Oxford, respectively) argued that we are never going to eliminate the virus, so we\u2019d better take mitigation strategies for the most vulnerable but otherwise learn to live with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"We're
We\u2019re not getting rid of COVID, so we should learn to live with it, like Floridians have done.<\/figcaption>
ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida Man (and Woman) are great American lovers of liberty. Did we not come here from Europe in the first place because we were tired of being bossed around by twits and wanted to dream up crazy stuff that had never been tried before? Item from the Walmart in Punta Gorda, Florida: a trashy tank top with the legend, \u201cI can\u2019t hear you over the sound of my FREEDOM.\u201d Doesn\u2019t even make sense! I love it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the great self-owns in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s career of auto-embarrassment came when she took the bait National Review dangled when it published a picture of her<\/a> enjoying a Christmas vacation drink in Miami Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Alexandria
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0was seen maskless in a Miami drag bar as Omicron cases skyrocketed.<\/figcaption>
jacob_lanoux\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florida, people like AOC keep telling us, is a COVID-superspreading lunatic state that actually voted for Donald Trump (twice). Yet where does AOC go when she wants to unwind? Not just Florida, but the part of it that is getting hit hardest in the Omicron wave.<\/p>\n

Desperately flailing like a seal on a beach, she retorted to her many detractors that they were only criticizing her because they couldn\u2019t date her. Do people criticize Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren because they want to get busy with these two hotties? AOC then attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and suggested he take some \u201ctips\u201d from her state\u2019s governor, Kathy Hochul. <\/p>\n

\"AOC
AOC telling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to take tips from Gov. Kathy Hochul is laughable \u2014 New York has 70 percent more cases than the Sunshine State.<\/figcaption>
AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oh? As I write these words, the state with the most COVID cases in the country is \u2026 New York, which has<\/a> 70 percent more cases than Florida, and five times as many deaths per 100,000. <\/p>\n

Heavy restriction is getting us nowhere. If we\u2019re going to get hammered by the Omicron wave anyway, can we please have some freedom back?<\/p>\n

Kyle Smith is critic-at-large at National Review.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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