As vaccinations in the state continue, Gov. Ron DeSantis rebuffed any domestic travel restrictions, to or from Florida, that the Biden administration is considering because of concerns the coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.
“I think it would unconstitutional. I think it would be unwise and it would be unjust,” DeSantis said Thursday during a news briefing in Port Charlotte.
The governor said he opposes restricting the right of Americans to travel freely throughout the country while allowing illegal aliens to pour across the southern border “unmolested” and added that it would be a “ridiculous and damaging farce.”
The Biden administration’s discussion of potential travel restrictions did not specify Florida, but they do focus on how to prevent the spread of variants that appear to be surging in a number of states, including Florida and California.
DeSantis said he doesn’t know why Florida would even be considered as a place where travel restrictions would be implemented. The COVID situation in Florida is better than many other states, he said.
The statistics he noted were based on the time period since December.
* 27 other states have higher per capita new cases than Florida.
* 29 other states have higher hospitalizations per capita than Florida.
* 41 other states have higher per capita fatalities than Florida.
“Since Dec. 1 well over half the country has seen much worse COVID results than here in Florida,” he said.
This is a developing story.
Sun Sentinel reporter Cindy Goodman can be reached at [email protected].
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Please Governor Desantis; as a resident of Florida please restrict all travel to Florida for Registered DemonRats who want to come here and turn the great State of Florida into California, New York, New Jersey and the res of the Eastern Seaboard and the West Coast!
I’d CERTAINLY LOVE for every red state that’s still existing, TO DO just that.. BAN all travel, or permanent move, by ANYONE from a commucrat hellhole..
Don’t get excited Governor Desantis the News Coverage and Statistics on the ScamDemic are as fake and false as the corpse and the Ho who occupy the Whitehouse, oh and I might add the fake impeachment!! The DemonRats win the fake and rigged election and they are still pissed off which validates how badly they cheated and how much guilt these psychopaths have on their conscious!!
“The governor said he opposes restricting the right of Americans to travel freely throughout the country while allowing illegal aliens to pour across the southern border “unmolested” and added that it would be a “ridiculous and damaging farce.”
Just as this ridiculas demented man’s reign. It is a damaging farce.
Why would a president need razor wire fences and 25,000 armed soldiers to protect him and his inauguration from the people.
IF the people truly elected him as their president??
You’ve got it exactly right! It boggles my mind that people actually vote for these politicians…
IMO that’s cause there is no IQ test, to be able to vote. SO WE HAVE millions of DUNCES who have the right to vote…
“but they do focus on how to prevent the spread of variants”. That is the problem with the dictator / criminal Joe Stalin Mao Biden, he (Joe) and his followers are communist “variants”!
“but they do focus on how to prevent the spread of variants that appear to be surging in a number of states”
Remarkable! This flu, I mean virus, (but then I repeat myself) has quite a few variants which I don’t recall being emphasized about in flu’s of the past, but there’s seemingly no flu this season. Is the Wuhan Chinese virus actually a flu?! And if not, what’s the difference? Both can make you very ill with unpleasant symptoms, both are viruses and both kill a tiny percentage of the people who catch them. It certainly seems to me that there’s no difference between an annual ordinary flu and the Chinese Wuhan virus. Just sayin’.
Youdda thought someone with a little common sense, would have MENTIONED that to the hacks in the CDC, months ago.. “HEY GUYS< there's all these flu variants. SO There's logically going to be different versions of covid!"