Florida Surpasses 2 Million Covid Cases

[TomCADem]

This is surprising, because I thought cases were going down and Florida has been on the lower end I’m terms of rate of testing.

[llashram]

1. this state's

and our nation's citizens are suffering grievous harm because of republican 'leadership'. When will voters learn to discern?

[lark]

3. This state has the most billionaires of any state in America.

I feel like Dems are doomed because the reich wing is totally entrenched here and controls everything with their overwhelming money and influence. We've been able to flip Duval blue, but repugs have made Broward/Miami a lot more red so net - they win.

[lark]

2. There's lots of testing going on in Duval County.

The state has at least one major testing spot in NE FL where appointments aren't required and there are lots of small testing sites around as well from the drug stores. Since Biden became president and took over the vaccine dist. vaccines are also easily available here now. Before the end of Jan. beginning of Feb. only the rich were getting them with Gov. Death Sentence in charge of the distribution and no availability in working class areas like Jax.

[riversedge]

5. It is appauling that DeSantis can do this out in the open. It gets reported on but nothing happens.

[lark]

6. Repugs control every part of Fl, including the judiciary.

That's why. As long as Death Sentence does what the billionaires want, he's pretty safe.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. First they faked the numbers to make them look better than they were.

Then DeSantis decided to open up the state, without having controlled the spread, or vaccinating enough people, or mandating any kind of social management or masking protocols. He did it as if it were a temporary response to an air raid and the threat was over. He told people to get out and get working, and eating in restaurants and other public activities which seemed to be intended to spread the virus as widely as possible throughout FLA.

Of course he did make sure that dozens of his closest and wealthiest friends got vaccinated first, which rather makes his other decisions and pronouncements appear to promote a form of germ warfare on the rest of Florida's citizens, along with anyone who might visit the Sunshine State for a bit of business or holiday. Thus DeSantis becomes the single largest super-spreader on record anywhere in the USA with 2 million and counting in Florida, no telling how many beyond the state borders and no end in sight. If he were a foreign leader we'd accuse him of genocide.

[lark]

7. I am afraid to see the numbers of folks that will require hospitalization after last weekend.

We stayed home, even though we've both been vaccinated and had Covid back in Dec.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. When you consider how many people who recover but will be impacted for the rest of their lives

and the public cost of supporting them, the impact of their disabilities on the economy they will be unable to perform in, not to mention the effect on quality of their lives, the scale of what he has done becomes clearer. As with Trump I doubt DeSantis really understood how toxic COVID virus is but that is no excuse for exposing anyone to the risk or the potential life changing damage, never mind possible death.

I view both men in the class of genocide on a par with Hitler and other historic mass-murderers. They clearly engaged in policies which were intended to expose millions of innocent people to life-threatening disease as an apparent punishment or an expression of their personal power in a supposedly democratic republic.

Although I doubt it will happen I believe both men should be convicted of the crimes against humanity they bear personal responsibility for. This is neither hype nor anger speaking. The scale of their crimes demands a response. The depth of suffering they engendered on every American requires Justice be served. The wide-ranging and sometimes violent social divisions they amplified and continue to stoke must be addressed in the strongest possible terms if we are ever to go forward as one country again.

[bluestarone]

9. Desantis is KILLING everyone on 5th ave. and

NOBODY'S doing a dam thing to stop him!