Breaking news-Travelers flying from New York to Florida will be placed under 14-day quarantine,

[pooch]

Jacksonville? I thought for sure Mar-a-lago!!

 

[lynnfitz]

So the executive order is still July 7th? It hasn't been extended further at this point?

 

[pooch]

Call Gov DeSantis. See if you can get a straight answer out of him!

 

[momtwoboys]

Just think the whole thing is very odd if you live in MA and ride 25 min to the airport in CT and get on a flight you are considered now needing to quarantine? Doesnt make sense.

 

[shafke]

I just wish they would properly define tri state area, and not lump all of NYS in there. I live in NY but not the tri state area. I am over 450 miles away this is the part that ticks me off.

Don't you know... when you say you live in NY that means you live in NYC. NYC equates to NYS for a lot of the country. They don't understand, once you get outside of the major cities... Buffalo, Albany, NY... the state is not very densely populated. I never say I live in NY... I come from NY but live on LI.

 

[Sandisw]

So the executive order is still July 7th? It hasn't been extended further at this point?

EO 52 which is the state of emergency will end July 7th and the original order EO 82 says it ends with that one. So, based on the actual orders, and the language that is the date.

However, Governor can come out with a new one that specifically takes it’s place that either extends or ends.

 

[lynnfitz]

Oh boy...just hope it's the 7th-we felt fortunate since we're at DVC and already have our tickets, but the quarantine could burst all of that! Shafke we do live in upstate NY (about an hour and a half from the city), we're in phase 2 now. We're due to fly out of Newburgh NY on the 8th of August-first to Universal then a week at Disney.

 

[peaceluv&mickeymouse]

Well I am sure it will end for the republican convention .

 

[pooch]

OR he will issue a special waiver for the convention and to hell with the rest of us.

 

[little_orange_bird]

I’m just so conflicted. It’s hard to be excited for a trip when you’re afraid you might have to cancel bc you’re from jersey .i was counting on a July 7th expiration for arrival the 12th but now I’m so afraid. I don’t know if I should cancel or what.

 

[Ross Kratter]

I’m just so conflicted. It’s hard to be excited for a trip when you’re afraid you might have to cancel bc you’re from jersey .i was counting on a July 7th expiration for arrival the 12th but now I’m so afraid. I don’t know if I should cancel or what.

I’m from NY and have a 7/13 arrival, so I very much feel your pain.

 

[butterscotchcollins]

Oh boy...just hope it's the 7th-we felt fortunate since we're at DVC and already have our tickets, but the quarantine could burst all of that! Shafke we do live in upstate NY (about an hour and a half from the city), we're in phase 2 now. We're due to fly out of Newburgh NY on the 8th of August-first to Universal then a week at Disney.

And the irony is anyone in the tri-state area could easily get to another major airport in a non-restricted state like Philly or Boston to get around this rule but people flying from Upstate NY don't have that option close by. It's a completely useless measure. Guess airlines are going to see a lot more flights with layovers in Atlanta booked...

 

[AlohaNow]

Don't you know... when you say you live in NY that means you live in NYC. NYC equates to NYS for a lot of the country. They don't understand.

And it also means that you live in a super-cool loft apartment right in Times Square. Or a cool rent controlled apartment in the Village that was your grandma's, like on Friends.

At this point in time the EO is nearly baseless.

 

[tangled1010]

I’m just so conflicted. It’s hard to be excited for a trip when you’re afraid you might have to cancel bc you’re from jersey .i was counting on a July 7th expiration for arrival the 12th but now I’m so afraid. I don’t know if I should cancel or what.

We are schedule to leave June 27 driving from south jersey. The bigger issue is once we get into Florida is the hotel going to allow us to check in?!? It’s an off site hotel and they say we must quarantine but I know others that went and are saying they weren’t even questioned when they checked in. So which is it? Cause I know as soon as I cancel everything this ban will get lifted. I am holding out as long as I can to cancel

 

[little_orange_bird]

We are schedule to leave June 27 driving from south jersey. The bigger issue is once we get into Florida is the hotel going to allow us to check in?!? It’s an off site hotel and they say we must quarantine but I know others that went and are saying they weren’t even questioned when they checked in. So which is it? Cause I know as soon as I cancel everything this ban will get lifted. I am holding out as long as I can to cancel

I’m curious how they would be able to prove you DIDN’T already quarantine for two weeks, you know?

 

[KristinU]

Slightly off topic, but ooh, I finally found a graph that tells me what I want to know, which is rolling 7 day average of % positive tests. I don't even have to mess with my own spreadsheet . It is buried in the Johns Hopkins site, the hover stats on the graph give you the 7 day moving average of positives for the selected state.

Here's Florida, which I'm hoping continues the steady 4% or goes down a bit:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florida

Wow, NY has a rolling 7 day at under 1.5%!: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/new-york
NJ is just under 2% as well: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/new-jersey
CT is at 3%: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/connecticut

 

[JimMIA]

What's the LOL, Jim? Florida's numbers are no laughing matter. I pray that you and yours are safe.

The LOL is for all the hard Google-work everyone is doing to try to prove our Governor wrong. And the fact that all those stats are irrelevant to the real question of this thread.

Which is..."Do visitors from NY, NJ, and CT have to self-quarantine for 14 days upon entering Florida?"

The answer is yes until July 7 -- and no amount of determined Googling is going to change that.

Whether you or I think it's the right thing to do, fair, or anything else doesn't matter.

I'm not worried about some people having to reschedule Disney vacations.

We had to reschedule our 2+ week Alaska trip. Yes, it's disappointing, but we'll go another time.

DD also had her Senior Class Grad Bash to Universal canceled. She had her Prom canceled. She had her Graduation changed to a silly recorded online joke. She didn't get to say goodbye to her friends of 4 years or teachers she loved.

And thousands of people suffered much, much more than canceled events.

So I try to keep some perspective.

 

[thanxfornoticin]

Slightly off topic, but ooh, I finally found a graph that tells me what I want to know, which is rolling 7 day average of % positive tests. I don't even have to mess with my own spreadsheet . It is buried in the Johns Hopkins site, the hover stats on the graph give you the 7 day moving average of positives for the selected state.

Here's Florida, which I'm hoping continues the steady 4% or goes down a bit:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florida

Wow, NY has a rolling 7 day at under 1.5%!: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/new-york
NJ is just under 2% as well: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/new-jersey
CT is at 3%: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/connecticut

Yea, but the last couple days have looked really bad in Florida - hit one of their highest positive totals just yesterday, and it's definitely trending the wrong direction. I wonder in NY might consider putting a requirement in effect to force people traveling there from Florida to quarantine for 14 days??!!

 

[KristinU]

The LOL is for all the hard Google-work everyone is doing to try to prove our Governor wrong. And the fact that all those stats are irrelevant to the real question of this thread.

Sorry @JimMIA , I had Googled because I literally had never had my area in central Connecticut referred to as "Tri-State Area" so I looked it up, and that's when I found that it is sections of NY, NJ, and CT. So, yes, the EO wording is indeed ambiguous, but it has been all but confirmed that the EO means all three entire states. If that's the case, why not just state "the states of NY, NJ, and CT" on the EO? Probably just lack of understanding, I guess.

Anyway, I know it is a moot point and I'm wasting energy, and I 100% agree that there are much bigger things to worry about. People have lost their lives, loved ones have had to say goodbye over zoom meetings, our most fragile elders who already don't get the care and dignity they deserve have been like sitting ducks in care facilities, including our veterans who deserve our utmost care and respect. People have not been able to collect the remains of loved ones so they are buried in mass graves. Awful, awful stuff. So, yeah, there are much bigger issues out there. However, this is a Disney vacation planning forum and there always has been and always will be a bit of escapism in posting here, much of it about first world and privileged-people problems.

 

[shafke]

The LOL is for all the hard Google-work everyone is doing to try to prove our Governor wrong. And the fact that all those stats are irrelevant to the real question of this thread.

Which is..."Do visitors from NY, NJ, and CT have to self-quarantine for 14 days upon entering Florida?"

The answer is yes until July 7 -- and no amount of determined Googling is going to change that.

Whether you or I think it's the right thing to do, fair, or anything else doesn't matter.

Trechnically yes, you have to quarantine. I think people here are just pointing out the idiocy of the order. There are so many holes that it is close to irrelevant.
- Fly from a different airport
- Don't cross the border on I95
- Take the train
- You do not need to prove you quarantined

Right now, I would be more worried that I would come back infected. When I am at home I am doing my utmost to be safe. If I am on vacation I am going to want to see things and do things. This wold give you a much higher chance of catching something.