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Remember when Politico said DeSantis won the pandemic?
Florida fiasco
Eric Boehlert
3 hr ago
Florida has become a Covid-19 debacle, again.
Now accounting for one-in-every five new cases nationwide, the Sunshine State under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has emerged as a beacon of irresponsibility. Not that he seems to care.
Off visiting Texas recently to take part in more GOP photo-ops at the border, DeSantis often brushes off the pandemic bad news. Its a seasonal virus and this is the seasonal pattern it follows in the Sun Belt states, he said this week. (He blamed quote-unquote experts for criticizing the unvaccinated.) The governor is busy though, selling anti-vaccine merchandise, like Dont Fauci My Florida t-shirts.
Question: Does the Beltway press care about the states drastic Covid U-turn? This spring, journalists lionized DeSantis supposed virus leadership it was Politico that announced, How Ron DeSantis Won the Pandemic. This, after 30,000 Floridians had already died from the virus.
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The Orlando Sentinel editorial page recently read the governor the riot act over his dereliction of duty:
And every few days, nearly as many people are dying from COVID as died in the recent collapse of a condominium in South Florida.
Please, governor, were begging you, handle the COVID problem. Be a leader.
How bad is Florida?
Florida is third in the nation in per capita increases, accounting for nearly 20% of the entire nations new infections.
The rate of positive tests is now well above 10%.
Florida now boasts the fourth-highest rate of hospitalizations and the nations highest average for daily deaths.
The states vaccination rate, 57 percent, remains a mediocre embarrassment.
The Sunshine State has the second lowest rate of vaccinated nursing home workers in the country.
All of this makes the medias torrent of DeSantis valentines earlier this year look inexcusable. Beltway scribes lined up to tell the same story over and over: Democratic critics were wrong about DeSantis, Covid and Florida, and now hes riding high within the GOP. They eagerly held him up as a rare Republican Covid star, pushing GOP talking points about how DeSantis had steered the Sunshine State into "boom times.
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TheBlackAdder
(28,186 posts).
Your state would probably be #1 in Deaths.
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Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)for a while, and he's trying to do it again.
NCDem47
(2,248 posts)If theyre even counting!
TheBlackAdder
(28,186 posts).
From June 5th onward, they only reported one COVID-19 death. Just one.
Florida is so fudging the numbers to bury this information -- Like the people Deathsantis kills.
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