“I think we ought to stop mandating things and start just giving people good information and start just giving people good information,” Scott said. “That’s what I did when I had hurricanes. People are smart. Give them good information. … Give us information, but you don’t have to tell me to wear a mask, you don’t have to, you know, tell me shut things down. Give me good information.”
He added that Florida and the rest of the United States can defeat COVID-19 without the government taking away the people’s rights.