Florida
Related: About this forumRon DeSantis (aka Trump Jr) questions whether schools should've been shut down.
Good Lord we are in trouble. Floridians, you need to light up his phone line, email, and twitter right effing now and dont stop until this man finds out how pissed we are at him.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/325138-ron-desantis-goes-on-jeremiad-in-defense-of-coronavirus-response-tactics
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)OrlandoDem2
(2,064 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,322 posts)is basically southern GA and AL. Those folks weren't going to vote for a black guy, plain and simple.
And unfortunately, the loss really got to Mr. Gillum, as evidenced by the recent news about him. If he had won, I just don't think we would be in this predicament.
I'm not telling anyone who is in this group anything they don't know, but we are particularly vulnerable from a demographic perspective in this state, with the massive number of retirees and elderly who both live here full time and are snowbirds.
Hell, the population of Naples falls by more than 1/3 between early March and early May. I read something years back that fully 40% of the condos on Marco Island are empty in the summertime
Phoenix61
(16,954 posts)with SARS. No they didnt close schools. They instituted massive testing and isolating those who tested positive. They were ahead of the curve. We, due to the orange menace are so far behind the curve all weve got left is to try to flatten the curve so medical care will be available for those who will need it. Also, what the ever living fuck does he think is going to happen when it hits The Villages?