Commentary
For six years, Florida has led the nation in net migration into the state, with New York and California losing the most residents. COVID craziness accelerated the trend dramatically.
The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, made some lockdown errors early on—for which he actually apologized—but then opened up completely more than two years ago. He mastered the actual science and decided to put freedom first. It’s led to a huge payoff for the whole state.
The national news media screamed in horror and predicted a mass death (#deathsantis trended on Twitter) that never came. Florida and California have roughly similar outcomes on COVID in particular even though they had opposite policies. This is because stringencies did not make a lick of difference in how the virus attacked the population….