By the end of June, I would expect Orlando resorts to have most amenities open, and likely there would be some sort of soft opening happening at some theme parks. Universal City Walk and Disney Springs (Downtown Disney) are both beginning staggered opening in the next week.
It doesn't seem that lifting this order is very high on the governor's list. He has opened gyms and restaurants, but somehow a farmer from upstate NY is a higher risk.
Perhaps not the farmer, but what about the person from NYC?It doesn't seem that lifting this order is very high on the governor's list. He has opened gyms and restaurants, but somehow a farmer from upstate NY is a higher risk.
Fact check: Flyers to Florida from hard-hit Tri-State area must fill out airport traveler form
The claim that Tri-State area travelers to Florida must complete an information form and self-quarantine for 14 days is true.www.usatoday.com
If you live in NYC, you can easily fly out of Philadelphia and skirt the order.
Quite possible, but your post indicated that the governor was only worried about the upstate farmer. Cherry picking a very specific case to fit your perspective. Just because you can skirt the order, doesn't mean that the order still doesn't apply to you. The form seems to only be for tracking, which I highly doubt they are doing. The order, like the one in Hawaii, is meant to deter people from coming, nothing more. Though Hawaii seems to be tracking people a little bit better.
I hate to draw out a "discussion" in an on-line forum, but... Frankly, you are one of the people that I most often agree with, and I value your insight and perspective. I have learned a great deal from your posts. Having said that, Governor DeSantis has lumped the tri-state area into one basket, and has based his order solely on the situation in NYC. My point was simply that the area that he has designated covers a population that is much greater than NYC. For example, the primary airport in CT, Bradley airport in Hartford, serves western MA (which is in worse shape than CT), VT and often parts of NH.
Not trying to draw it out either, and not everyone will agree. That is what makes the world go around. I would agree with your assessment though. It seems most decisions with this are made in haste without knowing all the facts. No one had any facts and we really only know a little more now than we did a couple months ago. I think the governors intent was to protect the citizens of the state, but implementation was poor. In reality, did anyone have a good implementation of anything in all of this? It would also be very easy to skirt the rules by connecting through another airport such as Chicago or Atlanta. In the end, I think the purposes is to make the thought of travel less desirable, not to keep everyone out or to even track anyone. They have bigger issues than tracking everyone from these areas. It is more about big brother watching.
I would certainly agree. The problem is that many antibody tests have very high false positive rates. Though their false negative rates are low. If you have an antibody test that says you had the virus, there is a good chance you didn't. Though if the antibody test says you didn't, chances are you didn't. We could allow those who had the virus to move about more freely, but that also causes other challenges. Like Covid parties. Want to get your freedom back? Go to a big party to get sick and get it over with. I wish I had all the answers. If I did, I probably wouldn't be here typing this response right now....
Depends on the test. Very odd. I think many of the antibody tests are faulty but also the antibodies are short lived.I would certainly agree. The problem is that many antibody tests have very high false positive rates. Though their false negative rates are low. If you have an antibody test that says you had the virus, there is a good chance you didn't. Though if the antibody test says you didn't, chances are you didn't. We could allow those who had the virus to move about more freely, but that also causes other challenges. Like Covid parties. Want to get your freedom back? Go to a big party to get sick and get it over with. I wish I had all the answers. If I did, I probably wouldn't be here typing this response right now....
Not enough is really known at this point as to how long antibodies last or if they protect you from future infection. Chances are there is some level of protection for some length of time. It is just that no one knows how much or how long. If a vaccine is ever developed, it may be that humans need to be vaccinated every year, every five years, every ten years, perhaps only once. Just like many other vaccines out there. It is far to early in vaccine development and the life of this virus to truly know but I don't think we have seen mass number of people being reinfected. Perhaps just a few dozen and those could very well be false positive tests or a small portion of the population that are not capable of developing antibodies.
Isn't that what I just said? There is no guarantee to immunity.
Yes it is, but I got the impression that you were implying people shouldn't travel because there is no guaranty and could be reinfected and I am implying that people should be more freely able to travel because they have antibodies.
Once it’s in the community it’s in the community. I get the quarantine measures the first few weeks BUT it was already in the community WELL before we started testing for it.