I live inFlorida and in my opinion DeSantis did an excellent job.
For one thing he dropped the useless mask mandate. He also kept schools open which put Florida students ahead of students in other states that closed their schools.
You say DeSantis has the worst record …
Ron DeSantis can’t quit Covid
The national pandemic health emergency is expiring. But the governor is still highlighting his Covid record.
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One indicator of the current mood is boosters and vaccinations. In Florida, which has the
second highest population of people aged 65 and over in the country, the number of people getting booster shots has plummeted. About 8,000 people received Covid-19 booster shots during the last week of April, according to data from the Florida Department of Health. During that same time last year, about 47,000 people got the jab.
Throughout the pandemic, DeSantis faced harsh criticism for his hands-off approach to Covid. At the height of the Delta variant surge in the summer of 2021, Florida
made up roughly one in five new infections nationally and at one point had more than 10,000 people hospitalized. Florida and DeSantis were
mocked by late night TV hosts and
denounced by Biden, who told GOP governors to “get out of the way” of their efforts to stop the spread of the virus.
A snapshot of the virus in Florida, however, shows a more complicated picture. Florida had more than 87,000 Covid-related deaths since the first cases of Covid appeared in March 2020 and its death rate was 13 highest in the nation,
according to data from the New York Times. But according to that data, it had a lower death rate than New York and New Jersey, two Democrat-led states that imposed some mask and vaccine mandates.
DeSantis was also an early proponent of vaccinating the elderly and prioritized seniors over young, healthy workers in December 2020. But his stance eventually changed, and at a press conference in 2021 he
stood next to peoplewho were staunchly anti-vaccine, including one who falsely said the shot “changes your RNA.” DeSantis last December asked the state Supreme Court to empanel a grand jury to investigate Covid vaccines and the drug companies that manufacture them.[/i]
Trump appears to wish that he had governed differently during the Covid crisis.
www.nationalreview.com
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Trump claims that Florida is “Third Worst in the Nation for COVID-19 Deaths (losing 86,294 People)” and “Third Worst for Total Number of Cases, at 7,516,906.” So, “why do they say that DeSanctus [sic] did a good job?” the former president asked. In response to this rhetorical question, the mainstream press’s hyperactive fact-checking apparatus has gone quiet, a silence rendered more conspicuous by the sheer audacity of Trump’s conclusions.
That Florida had more cases and deaths than New York tells us little, given that the former has 2 million more residents than the latter. What’s more relevant: Florida has a larger elderly population, and so its age-adjusted mortality rate from Covid was 8 percent lower than even the median state, to say nothing of New York, which is surpassed in this gruesome metric only by New Jersey and the two Dakotas. Florida’s better policies surely played a role in its better outcome. As journalistic outlets revealed and New York State attorney general Letitia James’s office confirmed, the Cuomo administration’s policy of warehousing Covid-exposed seniors in long-term-care facilities contributed to excess deaths among the elderly — a fact Cuomo’s administration tried to cover up. Florida’s government resisted public pressure to adopt New York’s model even as other states succumbed to that pressure (to tragic results).
I personally feel DeSantis made the right choice with his abortion ban. It takes guts to do the right thing and DeSantis has guts. If he loses, he still did what was right not not was politically expedient.
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