Caseloads and hospitalizations across most of the state are down. Yet FloridaвЂ™s death rate is no worse than the national average, and better than that of some other states that imposed more restrictions, despite its large numbers of retirees, young partyers and tourists. And Florida is thought to have the highest concentration of B.1.1.7, the more contagious virus variant first identified in the United Kingdom. Miami-Dade County averaged more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases a day over the past two weeks, one of the nationвЂ™s most serious outbreaks. More than 32,000 Floridians have died, an unthinkable cost that the stateвЂ™s leaders rarely acknowledge. To bask in that feeling - even if it is only that - is to ignore the heavy toll the coronavirus exacted in Florida, one that is not yet over. People arenвЂ™t miserable.вЂќ President BidenвЂ™s new hope of getting Americans together to celebrate with their families on the Fourth of July? вЂњWeвЂ™ve been doing that for over a year in Florida,вЂќ the governor boasted. (And not just because of global warming.) Yet in a country just coming out of the morose grip of coronavirus lockdowns, Florida feels unmistakably hot. Orange County, where Orlando is, saw the lowest tourist development tax collections for any January since 2002. A $2.7 billion budget deficit will need an injection of federal stimulus money. Though the state was fully reopened by late September, its tourism-dependent economy remains hobbled. To call what is happening in Florida an actual boom is a stretch. Children have been in classrooms since the fall.ДЇor better or worse, FloridaвЂ™s experiment in returning to life-as-it-used-to-be offers a glimpse of what many states are likely to face in the weeks ahead, as they move into the next phase of the pandemic - the part where it starts to be over. That debate about opening schools? It came and went months ago. The unemployment rate is 5.1 percent, compared to 9.3 percent in California, 8.7 percent in New York and 6.9 percent in Texas. Realtors cold-knock on doors looking to recruit sellers to the sizzling housing market, in part because New Yorkers and Californians keep moving in. To the contrary, much of the state has a boomtown feel, a sense of making up for months of lost time. None of this feels particularly new in Florida, which slowed during the worst of the pandemic but only briefly closed. Playgrounds are packed in Chicago, and the Texas Rangers are preparing to fill their stadium to capacity next month for the debut of, by god, baseball season. Texas reopened this past week from one side of the state to the other, with spring breakers reveling on South Padre Island. Movie theaters in California were poised to open their doors soon. Crowds were pouring into restaurants in Atlanta and Kansas City, Mo. Live music returned this weekend to the bars of New Orleans. We will never forget about him.вЂќ, said Vanessa in tears.Florida reopened months before much of the rest of the nation, which only in recent days has begun to emerge from the better part of a year under lockdown. вЂњBut we stopped laughing when he heard the explosion and the video call stoppedвЂќ.ДЄfter hearing the explosion, they called the police and found that Davis was dead and his chicken was burned. вЂњHe turned it on for 4:20 minutes, we all laughed at that momentвЂќ, said Thiago. вЂњHe had a big and a small microwave at homeвЂќ, said Vanessa, one of DavisвЂ™ friends, вЂњhe put one into the other and plugged in the biggest one, and then it startedвЂќ, she concluded. He is (or was) one of our craziest friends, who would do anything just to make us laughвЂќ, said Michael, who was in the video call. вЂњI didnвЂ™t really think he was gonna do it. He was in a video call with his friends and, since they were bored, they dared him to microwave a smaller microwave and he did it. 26-year old Bill Davis died yesterday after attempting to microwave a microwave. A Florida man has had one of the most epic deaths weвЂ™ve ever written about.

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