Florida closed to travel?

Would those rules apply to a Canadian, if they could get across the border, I wonder?

....we are booked for 4.5 months in Florida this winter 20/21. We were in Florida up to near the end of March, and came back to Canada a week before we were scheduled to return home. In hindsight, we should have stayed till end of March, because the Island we were on had close to zero tested cases....at that time.

Just this morning, I lopped off November and December from our reservation, and kept January to beginning of April. I have till October to decide if we kill January. IMO, I believe that the Canada/USA land crossing could open to the non-essential visitor sometime before December, albeit with a long list of provisos. However, if my gut feeling by, say, mid October tells me that it doesn't seem possible for this to happen, I'll lop off January, and keep Feb & March. I'll use the same logic for a decision on February, and then, March.

IMO....the last thing Florida will do will be to keep out out-of-state long-term vacationers. IMO, Florida will require entering vacationers from "certain States" to do a mandatory 14 day quarantine in their RV or vacation rental; and will, IMO, require all foreign Nation visitors to also do a mandatory 14 day quarantine. Now, short-term vacationers to Florida may be something different. No short-term visitor would want to go to Florida IF a 14 day quarantine is needed. Snowbirders by definition, are long-term visitors.

We just received an e-mail from our travel insurance provider, indicating that whey would cover us for and Covid-related healthcare during our snowbird period in 2021. I am now aware of 2 Canadian travel insurance cos. presently extending coverage for Covid related illness to Canadians visiting the US.

I can envision the same straight-through driving permission for long-haul snowbirders needing to traverse a half-dozen or more States on their way south to avoid multi-state quarantines, as that had been afforded to us driving from Florida to Quebec during the lock-down this past end of March. We made it all the way home in 2.3 days, needing to stay in only 2 hotels (both hotels had extraordinary sanitation protocols in place).

With a little luck, we will have an open land border in November/December, and we will be able to get to our snowbirding locale quickly. IF the Canada/USA border closes when we are in Florida, we will not return to Canada this time, learning our lesson back in March. Our then travel health insurance provider would have let us stay out our snowbird period without any problem, after contacting them. We should not have come back early.

When/if we are able to get to Florida this end of December, we will simply use phone-in/Internet order delivery from our local Publix, and if we need a vet visit for our traveling cat, our Florida vet is very convenient; they will pick up our cat, and deliver him back to us door-to-door. We don't plan on eating in ANY restaurants, or visiting any bars, clubs or potentially crowded events for the coming snowbird season....essentially, we'll be living like Monks. But better to be living like a Monk in Florida over winter, than living like a Monk in the frozen wasteland of Eastern Canada over winter :C