Hey, New Jersey: Florida doesn’t give a damn about you.

In fact, in many ways, it’s trying to kill you.

On Tuesday, President Trump declared that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is “a great governor” who “knows exactly what he’s doing” in response to the spread of the coronavirus. At a time when U.S. workers are losing their jobs by the millions, it’s good that Trump will keep fact-checkers at full employment. But these lies are deadly.

We’ve all seen the photos and videos of giddy and drunken idiots, like pandemic postcards from the Sunshine State to the rest of us dopes under house arrest: spring-breakers partying with the governor’s blessing before DeSantis sent the half-witted coronavirus carriers home to all corners of the nation, including New Jersey.

Today, Florida is creeping up on 7,000 identified cases of coronavirus, but still some beaches remain open. Non-essential businesses, too. Florida remains one of the handful of states that have not ordered its residents into their homes.

(Update: On Wednesday afternoon, with pressure mouting, DeSantis said he will sign a statewide executive order limiting the movements and personal interactions of Floridians.)

This past weekend, Floridians were still lounging on beaches and boats, pulling cold ones from coolers and passing them around. They’re tossing footballs from clean to contaminated hands and back, handling ball washers and flagsticks on golf courses, pushing elevator buttons, turning public doorknobs, hanging out in parks, hosting birthday parties and packing a mega-church for Sunday service.

They obviously don’t give a crap about us, so why the hell would we ever give them our business again?

According to a Bloomberg study in 2019, Florida was “the most frequent destination of wealth leaving New Jersey.”

Let’s put that in terms any New Jerseyan can understand: We’re funding our own hitman.

We should rethink that.

Vacation in Florida? No thanks. There are other places with sand and sunshine, where responsible public officials are trying to save lives. (And we can save the state’s climate-change felonies for another day.)

Move there permanently? Sure, there’s no income tax, but I’d rather pay for a governor who will protect me. Otherwise, I’m just saving for a bigger coffin and my kids’ inheritance.

Buy a second home there? I’m guessing there are many thousands of Florida residents who, given the governor’s apparent death wish for them, wish they didn’t live there now.

A show of hands: How many of us are glad we have parents and grandparents living in Ron DeSantis’ Florida?

“In a state with so many seniors, it is shocking,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Congressman, tweeted Tuesday. “The spring break disaster, the jammed beaches after that, the crowded sandbars with hundreds of boats (this past weekend!), the repeat of Italy and New York’s mistakes. How many warning signs does this guy need?”

Sure, I could order people into their homes, but, hell, what’s the use, DeSantis said Tuesday at a press briefing.

“I think, no matter what you do, you’re going to have a class of folks that are just going to do whatever the hell they want to do,” he said, arguing against laws for mass murder, jaywalking and every crime in between. He added that Floridians should be “responsible” and avoid crowds -- but, no, no, no, he wasn’t going to order them to do so.

To paraphrase the Beach Boys, they’ll have fun, fun, fun till DeSantis takes the beaches away.

Then again, DeSantis is so committed to this give-them-liberty-and-give-them-death stance that if the White House told him to shut it all down ... well, he just might.

Nah, not going to do that, said the White House. Not going to tell a Republican governor what to do.

So now, with hundreds of thousands of Americans projected to die before this is over, DeSantis and Trump are playing a political game of coronavirus chicken.

And, look, it’s not just that DeSantis doesn’t give a damn about us, he’s also trying to pin this on us.

After dragging his feet and downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic for weeks, DeSantis is pointing fingers at people coming to Florida from “coronavirus hot spots.” Florida troopers have set up checkpoints on the state’s highways, looking for New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Louisiana license plates. They’re pulling over those cars, taking personal information and demanding that the travelers self-quarantine for 14 days.

Even though New York and New Jersey are under shelter-in-place orders, DeSantis is floating a conspiracy theory that “reckless” people from our area started fleeing to Florida and “seeded” the virus there, when East Coast states implemented lockdown measures. He has presented no evidence for this claim, though he now is trying to conjure evidence from the checkpoints.

The guy whose ignorance and ideology facilitated the spread in his own state and sent radioactive college kids to 49 others is looking for a scapegoat. Bet on it: When the death toll skyrockets in Florida, he’ll point at us: “We were fine until all those people fleeing New York and New Jersey sneaked into the state and infected all of us.”

The Chinese Virus will become the Bayonne Virus.

The Florida governor is trying to kill you, New Jersey -- all the while looking to pin thousands of future deaths on you, too.

Remember that when this pandemic is finally over and you go to book that flight to Miami.

Unless, of course, it’s to attend a funeral.

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