Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) recently revealed at a press conference in Satellite Beach that he filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which is pending in federal court, to hold the CDC liable for the unnecessary economic damage it has caused to Florida. The move is a further action to his earlier plan to sue the CDC in April.
According to the U.S. media outlet Beckernews (Beckernews) on Sunday, May 9, DeSantis noted that Florida has been hit harder economically than any other state on the outbreak because Florida’s economy relies on the service sector and tourism business. And the measures proposed by the CDC have had a huge economic impact on Florida’s cruise ship industry.
DeSantis said, “This is fundamentally unfair, and we are now suing the CDC and have an upcoming hearing in federal court.” He wants the cruise ships to keep sailing and keep running, “It’s vital to the economy, and tens of thousands of people are affected by this.”
He added that when they first announced the lawsuit against the CDC in Miami, there was a group of people behind him, all working in the industry. These people were not just from cruise lines, but from multiple small businesses associated with them.
One woman told DeSantis at the time that many people had died in their community because of the outbreak. But they didn’t die from the virus, they died from desperation. DeSantis therefore attacked the CDC for making those so-called “anti-epidemic” decisions based on political correctness, not science.
DeSantis also spoke of the hundreds of thousands of jobs saved and the thousands of businesses saved in Florida’s restaurant, hotel and hospitality industries by keeping the policy as open as possible.
He said that every time he’s in public, people come up to him and say, “Thank you for saving my job,” or “Thank you for saving my business. As a result, Florida’s current unemployment rate of 4.7 percent is significantly lower than the national average of 6 percent, and far lower than “eagerly closed states” like New York and California.
We’ve done a good job, he said proudly, of successfully protecting the needs of the public. “Contrast that with places that are closed, where the businesses are dead and never coming back. It’s government coming down hard on family businesses, destroying jobs and destroying millions of lives. And we chose a different path in Florida, and it’s the right path, the path to success.”
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