{"id":76696,"date":"2020-09-27T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/florida-bars-packed-after-state-lifts-covid-19-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2020-09-27T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:46:00","slug":"florida-bars-packed-after-state-lifts-covid-19-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/florida-bars-packed-after-state-lifts-covid-19-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"#Florida bars packed after state lifts COVID-19 restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Florida bars packed after state lifts COVID-19 restrictions<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/MEGA703674_021.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Crowds packed into some Florida bars over the weekend after Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted coronavirus restrictions on them and other businesses, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Footage showed patrons overflowing out of the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday after the governor\u2019s surprise order, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2020\/09\/27\/bars-owners-patrons-happy-with-phase-3-reopening-city-mayors-concerned\/\">news station WPLG reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m healthy, I\u2019m strong and I feel comfortable with all my friends,\u201d said Dan Gibby, who was at the watering hole.<\/p>\n<p>In Davie, Gaffer\u2019s Pub owner Debbie Qualls said the greenlight to reopen was a lifesaver for the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had to pay the rent, the electric, all the bills. If it was too much longer, we wouldn\u2019t be here,\u201d Qualls said.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019s announcement Friday allowed all bars and restaurants to reopen effectively im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely \u2014 and prevented local municipalities from implementing restrictions that would force them to operate at less than half-capacity unless it can be justified for health or economic reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not closing anything going forward,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor closed bars and nightclubs on St. Patrick\u2019s Day due to outbreaks across the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said Friday that the pandemic was not over, but it was time to restart the economy after six months of \u201cpeople twisting in the wind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to put a lot of people back to work over the last few months, and obviously we have more to do,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunshine State has been a hotspot for COVID-19 with at least 700,000 confirmed cases, including at least 14,000 deaths, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p><em>With Post Wires<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/27\/florida-bars-packed-after-state-lifts-covid-19-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Florida bars packed after state lifts COVID-19 restrictions&#8221; Crowds packed into some Florida bars over the weekend after Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted coronavirus restrictions on them and other businesses, according to a report. Footage showed patrons overflowing out of the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday after the governor\u2019s surprise order, news station WPLG&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/MEGA703674_021.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[73120,1545,6642],"class_list":["post-76696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-27-20","tag-coronavirus","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}