Ah, well if Alternet says so, then it must be true! According to the analysis, a key factor in Florida coming in at #41 is its low vaccination rates. Right. Weight the study on the stats that you want to make the data output look the way you want it.
Well you can go read the detailed analysis from Wallethub... States that are Recovering the Quickest from COVID-19 https://wallethub.com/edu/states-covid-recovery/90947 After you read the study... Remember to stand on the shore and wave goodbye to all the cruise ships leaving Florida for other U.S. ports -- thanks to DeSantis.
"DeSantis for the win" -- Say goodbye to Florida's entire cruise industry. Great job, Ron. Why Ron DeSantis’ Ban On Vaccine Passports Could Cost Florida Billions Of Dollars https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...ne-passports-cruise-industry/?sh=656bf4ad7929 Earlier this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that prohibits businesses across his state from asking anyone to provide proof of a Covid-19 vaccination. “In Florida, your personal choice regarding vaccinations will be protected and no business or government entity will be able to deny you services based on your decision,” DeSantis said at the bill signing event. The governor has made a lot of political hay from being an outspoken opponent to so-called “vaccine passports,” but his stridency may deprive his state of one of its economic juggernauts. The new Florida law becomes effective July 1, at the very time the U.S. cruise industry will be rebooting after a year-long dormancy due the Covid-19 pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has given the green light for cruise ships to being sailing this summer from U.S. ports, with a few conditions. Chief among them: 98% of crew members and 95% of passengers must be fully vaccinated. If Florida won’t let cruise lines perform vaccine verifications, they will simply move their ships elsewhere, said Frank Del Rio, CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., during the company's quarterly earnings call yesterday. The company operates three cruise lines: Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises. “At the end of the day, cruise ships have motors, propellers and rudders, and God forbid we can’t operate in the state of Florida for whatever reason, then there are other states that we do operate from,” said Del Rio. “We can operate from the Caribbean for a ship that otherwise would have gone to Florida.” If every cruise line relocates out of the Sunshine State — as they would be forced to, under the new law — the cruise capital of the world would feel acute economic pain. The three busiest cruise ports in the country — PortMiami, Port Canaveral and Port of Everglades — are all located in Florida. The year before the Covid pandemic, the state accounted for 60.1% of all passenger embarkations in the U.S., according to an economic impact report on the cruise industry from Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA). Consider that two thirds (65%) of cruise passengers spend a few extra days at embarkation or debarkation ports, according to CLIA, and while they are in Florida, they spend big money. Two years ago, cruise passengers funneled more than $9 million in direct expenditures into Florida hotels, restaurants, shops and other businesses before and after their time at sea. That level of spending generated almost 159,000 jobs, which accounted for $8.1 billion in income, per CLIA’s calculations. Del Rio also questioned the CDC’s vaccine mandate — for not going far enough. “For the life of me, I don't understand 98% and not 100%. So you got a — you have a big ship. You have 1,800 crew members on board and you're going to vaccinate 1,764 of them, but not 36? What a loophole to allow potential Covid to be introduced in the crew area,” Del Rio said. “One hundred percent, at least in the beginning, I believe, should be the model. And if the CDC and the rest of the industry wants to go in a different direction, great. We want to go 100%. We want clearance for 100%.” Del Rio said he hopes the CDC’s ruling will trump the Florida governor’s actions. “It is a classic state versus federal government issue,” he said. “Legally, lawyers believe that federal law applies and not state law, but I'm not a lawyer.”
First, so far as Wallethub (the link you are providing) is concerned, Florida is ranked #15 in terms of best economy and labor market. Florida is ranked 25 for "Leisure and Travel", or middle of the road (country wise) in ranking. Florida is ranked 47 in "COVID health", to which I'd point that Wallethub overly weights "COVID Health" in their ranking, which is a subjective ranking for "recovery from COVID". Opinion, only. Many people would suggest economic freedom is more important. So "wallethub", the site spamming "free credit reports!" is telling us what to think on COVID numbers. OK. I'll pass.
Would you like to put a monetary wager, right now, that the cruise won't leave industry Florida? Easy money, right, GWB?
"DeSantis for the win" -- Nothing more than a thin-skinned narcissistic bully. Ex-DeSantis' staffers form 'support group' to share tales of bullying from governor and his wife https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-bullying/ According to a report from Politico's Playbook, former staffers who worked for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) are getting together to commiserate over working conditions they endured under the controversial governor when he was still a member of the House -- as well as the demands of his wife. DeSantis, who has his eye on the 2024 GOP presidential nomination should Donald Trump not run again, has been attempting to increase his national profile in what is expected to be a large field of GOP contenders that could include both of Florida's U.S. Senators Marco Rubio or Rick Scott. With that higher profile comes more pressure and the governor is being accused of bullying staffers as well as placing blame on them when things didn't go his way on his climb to the top in the state. According to Politico, the Republican governor "...left behind a trail of former disgruntled staffers and has no long-standing political machine to mount a national campaign." Noting, "We talked to a dozen or so onetime aides and consultants to the Florida governor, and they all said the same thing: DeSantis treats staff like expendable widgets. He largely relies on a brain trust of two: himself and his wife, Casey DeSantis, a former local TV journalist," the report states. Summing up the relationship between the governor, his wife and his staff, one former employee bluntly stated, "Loyalty and trust, that is not a currency he deals in. It's him and Casey. But everyone else is like a disposable piece of garbage." Case in point, Politico reports: DeSantis often blames his staff for his own blunders, we're told. After DeSantis went on Fox News in 2018 and implored Florida voters not to 'monkey this up' by supporting his African American Democratic opponent for governor, he and his wife chewed out his campaign staff for not cleaning up the mess, according to three former staffers. Shortly after, DeSantis brought in a whole new group of advisers." Staffers were also appalled at how he treated an official recovering from cancer surgery. "At the beginning of his administration, DeSantis directed the Florida Republican Party leader to fire a party official who had cancer — on that person's first week back from surgery," five different ex-staffers told Playbook which gets to the point that the governor doesn't see his aides as people worthy of consideration. According to Politico, "Aides would lure DeSantis to staff meetings with cupcakes, saying that it was a colleague's birthday to get him to attend. In the gubernatorial primary, DeSantis visited his campaign headquarters just a couple of times. On election night, he entered the war room after his win and remarked, 'Wow, I didn't know this many people worked for me,' according to four former staffers." You can read more here.
You're the guy who disowned his own family because they voted for Obama. Seriously, get over yourself. North Dakota had so much Covid at one point it was leading the free world and had to ship many patients out of state to try to keep them alive. Of course, they also elected a dead man in the last election. I was speaking directly to your point on population density. It's a really, really bad excuse you use to ignore data you don't like. You claim to be a flexible thinker open to hearing out ideas. All I see is you being close minded on here especially concerning Covid. If you or Jem start getting preachy I shut you off for a while. I imagine your family does the same you can be an irritating prick at times.
Lower hospitalizations than its neighbors... many charts on this page.. Viruses virus... you all just don't seem to comprehend that. Distance Protect the high risk No need to destroy the lives of the healthy. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/...-minnesota-and-its-neighbors-in-upper-midwest
First let's outline the fact that DeSantis has no control over the requirements of transportation companies leaving on international itineraries. The fallacy that he thinks he can demand that cruise lines not require passengers to be vaccinated is laughable -- but in many ways this is just a ploy to push his political talking points. What is going to happen here is that DeSantis will back down after the federal government makes it clear that the federal government has oversight over international transportation and not the state of Florida. While backing down DeSantis will make all sorts of statements about how terrible the Biden administration and CDC is for forcing vaccination passports onto the state of Florida. The other side of the equation is DeSantis potentially losing significant campaign funding from the entire leisure and cruise industry if he continues to demand that cruise ships not require proof of vaccination. Of course proof of vaccination is very pertinent to the cruise industry since many of the countries they visit will not allow cruise ships to dock unless nearly everyone on board is vaccinated -- especially the poor Caribbean nations who will not have their own populations vaccinated well into 2022. They cannot afford a large spread COVID outbreak caused by cruise passengers. The final point here is if DeSantis thinks he can control the cruise ship transportation industry then he likely thinks he can control the airline transportation industry. Europe will be opening up to Americans in June who can prove they are vaccinated. Miami is a large international airport. The airlines will need to have passengers prove they are vaccinated before they can board a flight to Europe. DeSantis has no more control over "vaccine passports" for flights than he does over the cruise ship transportation industry -- they are regulated at the federal level. At this point all three major cruise lines have made it clear to DeSantis that they will move their ships out of Florida if he tries to enforce his state rules about no "vaccination passports" upon them. Clearly and unequivocally the industry is telling DeSantis to shut his mouth -- and he will comply - just a matter of time. Norwegian Cruise Line Threatens To Leave Florida, Claiming This Major COVID Risk https://www.ibtimes.com/norwegian-c...ave-florida-claiming-major-covid-risk-3195004 As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention readies to allow cruise ships set sail again in U.S. waters, one cruise line is taking a hard stance against Florida for what it claims are risky COVID rules. Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH) CEO Frank Del Rio warned that the cruise line would pull out of Florida ports if the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, continues to insist on rolling back COVID requirements on proof of vaccination and testing, WFOR, a CBS affiliate out of Miami, reported. (More at above url)