Actually, Many New Yorkers HAVE Fled to Florida [View all]

Most of them have winter residences in that state and are primarily wealthy people who can afford to winter in that state. They have probably reasoned that they'll be OK there, if they hole up in their large homes and don't go out.

The problem with that is that such people are used to having people "do for them." They can afford to hire housekeepers, cooks, nannies, landscape maintenance people. and the like. They like to do that, and pay those people as little as they possibly can for their help and assistance.

So, people come into those luxurious homes to keep things tidy and to do the work wealthy people do not deign to do. Further, the people they hire go back to their own homes daily, in most cases. Live-in domestic workers are rare these days, even among the wealthy.

Somehow, the folks who fled to Florida aren't considering that factor. Soon, however, they will be forced to do so, when the housekeeper calls in sick after her symptoms show up.

You can't run from an epidemic, unless you stay away from everyone. You can't hire poorly paid servants and stay away from the cause of the epidemic. They'll learn that.