No, it did not go over anyone's head on the left. But you seem to be utterly clueless as to its meaning.
A joke??? I don't think so. It's more like you've been caught doing something odious and you're trying to cover it up. Like the kid I saw about to bash her playmates over the head with a large stick. She very quickly put on a smile and said she was just "joking". When I came on the scene, she looked very angry, and the other kids looked really scared. Nobody was "joking" until I stopped her from hurting someone.
The "woke" aren't the clueless idiots in this scenario. The clueless idiots are those who are voting for the fascist, racist, anti-democratic, authoritarian agenda of the MAGA Republicans.
Ron DeSantis was offering "vaccine tourism" to foreigners and tourists ahead of vaccines for American citizens living in Florida whose tax dollars PAID for that vaccine. That should tell you everything you need to know about who Ron DeSantis cares about. All the Canadian Snowbirds I know who went to Florida after Christmas, came home vaccinated, months ahead of when they would have received the shots at home.
DeSantis went ahead with "Spring Break" as the virus was spreading throughout the nation, bringing thousands of young people together, who then went home with covid, helping the disease to spread more quickly across the country. But Florida businesses made money.
Profits over people. DeSantis ran on his great Florida economy, not on what he's doing for the people of Florida, but what he's doing against Democrats, women, minorities, and against gays, teachers, public education, and free speech.