I'm Joe Biden and, Floridians, here's my plan

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We can get through this pandemic together. Here’s how — and what we can do to prosper afterward — writes the Democratic presidential nominee.

Earlier this month in Florida, I met Esther Segura, a nurse who spent eight years in the U.S. Army Reserve as an operating room technician. She’s spent this year juggling raising two teenage daughters as a single mom and working on the front lines fighting against this pandemic.

Esther loves helping people — she says it’s in her blood. And she loves our country. But she’s worried about it, because she believes our president doesn’t respect people like her.

She’s seen first-hand how he has failed to protect the workers on the front lines of a pandemic that disproportionately impacts Black and brown Americans — who are 3 times as likely to be infected, and are dying at twice the rate of white Americans.

In his own words, President Donald Trump knew that COVID-19 was a dangerous and communicable disease. It’s on tape. But he did nothing. He claims that he hid this life-saving information from the American people because he didn’t want us to panic — but the truth is, he panicked, with tragic results. He failed to protect Americans.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/10/19/im-joe-biden-and-floridians-heres-my-plan-column/