https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-12/coronavirus-florida-s-reopening-is-worth-rooting-forThe notion that there is a blue-state and a red-state way of attacking the virus is absurd.By Joe Nocera
May 12, 2020, 7:00 AM EDT
DeSantis’s critics, who tend to lump him together with Trump, say the governor doesn’t deserve any credit at all. They credit Florida’s big-city mayors, who imposed relatively strict sheltering-in-place rules even as the governor resisted doing so statewide. I spoke to two friends, one in Miami and another in Orlando, who both praised their city’s mayor for taking aggressive action; they also noted that those Jacksonville photos notwithstanding, most Floridians have been compliant.
But this doesn’t seem likely to be the whole answer either. Citizens of Boston and Detroit — and, yes, New York — have been just as compliant if not more so. Yet each of those cities has suffered more deaths than Miami. Some 20,000 New York City residents 2 have died of Covid-19; the number in Miami-Dade County, which has a population of 2.7 million, is fewer than 500.
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