While coronavirus case counts rise, Gov. Ron DeSantis proclaims Florida ‘a free state.’
I spent almost two decades living in Florida, and even I’m hard-pressed to pick the moment that stood out as my weirdest.
All of which goes a long way toward explaining that nothing surprises me when it comes to my former state, including its current COVID-19 situation. Not that other states are in such great shape. In New York, where I was born and raised and where I returned more than a decade ago, daily cases have risen by 110% to 3,279 over the last 14 days, and coronavirus-related deaths have increased by 77% to 10, bringing the total number of deaths due to the pandemic to 53,352.
That attitude is pure Floridian: defiant and independent. Say what you will, but the state marches, weirdly, to the beat of its own drum. The result is that many Florida residents don’t really have much of a connection to Florida. And, by extension, they arguably don’t worry about what anyone else in the state thinks. “They care more about their home states,” says Brian Crowley, a Florida-based political consultant .
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