Looks like tourists no longer want to visit DeSantisLand. Florida’s tourism numbers dip in 2nd quarter Tourists from other parts of the U.S., who make up the bulk of Florida travelers, were off an estimated 2.4% from the same period in 2022. https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2023/08/18/floridas-tourism-numbers-dip-second-quarter/
DeSantisLand does not need no education. Florida schools got hundreds of book complaints — mostly from 2 people A year’s worth of records suggests the state’s book banning movement is narrow in scope. https://www.tampabay.com/news/educa...gett-parental-rights-sold-patricia-mccormick/
Residents of Florida -- Remember to thank your local authoritarian idiot for this. DeSantis voted against Sandy aid a decade ago. Now his state needs the help. Florida’s Republicans have a complicated relationship with disaster aid. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/desantis-florida-gop-sandy-disaster-aid-00113627
Now if we only had workers available to clean and rebuild Florida. I wonder which authoritarian chased them all out. Immigrants cleaning up after Hurricane Idalia wonder if DeSantis’ immigration law will limit their ability to rebuild Florida “This is where all the immigrants that the governor wants to push out are needed,” a Mexican construction worker said, referring to the law meant to deter employing undocumented workers in Florida. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino...da-cleanup-immigrants-desantis-law-rcna102717
I can understand not wanting to contribute to the pork provisions of any bill, but if that dickhead had seen first-hand what Sandy did to the Tri-State area (Fuck, my hometown was buried in 5 feet of water, and when it receded 3 feet of sand covered the entire town), he would have signed it without hesitation(one hopes).
So if the leprosy or flesh eating bacteria does not kill you in Florida then Covid will. In recent weeks, 3.4% of all deaths each week within Florida are due to Covid. This is double the national percentage of 1.7%. The governor and his cronies are doing their best to kill you in DeSantisLand. Remember Lil' Ron proclaimed that the best way to fix Social Security was to reduce the age people lived to -- he's doing a good job of it in Florida. There's a COVID surge in Florida. Here's what the numbers show, and how to protect yourself https://news.yahoo.com/theres-covid-surge-florida-heres-092016918.html COVID cases have again been spreading in Florida. Though winter is more traditionally known as the season of respiratory viruses, the past three summers have all seen increased rates of COVID-19 transmission. This year is no different, with wastewater data, hospitalizations and deaths showing the United States has seen a rise in cases since at least two months ago. Wastewater data, collected by Biobot, shows that the level of COVID found in wastewater samples has trended upward since late June nationwide. Though the company does not track data state-by-state, Florida is included in the South region, which has followed the national trend except for a slight dip in the data published Wednesday. An updated booster is set to role out in mid-September, US News and World Report reported. Though the shot won't target the dominant variant EG.5, or "eris," all circulating strains are descendants of omicron, which should allow the vaccine to protect against serious illness, health officials said. Here's an overview of what the uptick in COVID looks like in Florida, and what to do if you're sick. Is COVID still causing hospitalizations and deaths? Yes. The Centers for Disease Control reported 15,067 COVID-19 hospitalizations nationwide between Aug. 13 and Aug. 19. That’s an increase of 18.8% from the previous week. While they did not report the specific number of deaths attributed to COVID, they attributed 1.7% of all deaths within the United States to COVID, a 21.4% increase from the prior week. In Florida, there were 2,086 COVID-19 hospitalizations for the same time period, a 9.4% increase from the prior week. The CDC also reported that 3.4% of all deaths within the state were due to COVID, a 21.4% increase from the previous week. (More at above url)
Sadly it is not. We have a former neighbor who moved to Florida who is moving back to N.C. because they can not afford their homeowner insurance increases on a fixed budget. Their homeowner insurance is now over $6,000 for a small townhouse in Florida. Keep in mind -- as documented in this thread -- DeSantis and the GOP legislature could have taken steps to fix the homeowner insurance problem in Florida, instead they only made it worse.
This is most likely due to a combination of the state legislation mandating flood insurance (whether in a flood zone or not) for anyone with the state-run insurance company, Citizens, and the few remaining private insurance companies jacking their rates through the roof after recent storms like Ian. I read a bunch of smaller private insurance companies went splat after that one.