On April 1, 2020, Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order to restrict activities within the state to those deemed as essential services.[6] By June 2020, DeSantis had adopted a more targeted approach to the pandemic, declaring in mid-June that,
"We’re not shutting down, we’re gonna go forward, we’re gonna continue to protect the most vulnerable....particularly when you have a virus that disproportionately impacts one segment of society, to suppress a lot of working-age people at this point I don’t think would likely be very effective.”
That targeted approach was similar to what the Great Barrington Declaration would recommend later in October. DeSantis got vaccinated voluntarily against Covid 19, and expressed enthusiasm for people getting their shots, but he has also opposed forcing people to do it.
On September 25, 2020, Florida lifted all remaining capacity restrictions on businesses, while also prohibiting local governments from enforcing public health orders with fines, or restricting restaurants to less than 50% capacity.
That’s how I remember it: DeSantis restricted commerce for 6-8 weeks, but immediately reversed all that once it became clear that Trump, Fauci, the CDC, and NIH were all lying their asses off.