So tell us again what DeSantis is doing to "protect the vulnerable" in nursing homes... Florida must increase COVID-19 mitigation efforts as hospitalizations rise: WH task force memo https://www.news4jax.com/i-team/202...-as-hospitalizations-rise-wh-task-force-memo/ Florida must increase its coronavirus mitigation efforts as “hospitalizations rise and long-term care facilities are again under full threat,” according to the White House Coronavirus Task Force’s weekly memo that was sent to governors last week. The Florida portion of the Nov. 22 report, which was obtained by Naseem Miller of the Orlando Sentinel, states that “Florida is now in the red zone for cases, indicating 101 or more new cases per 100,000 population, with the 37th highest rate in the country.” It goes on to say: “Florida is in the orange zone for test positivity, indicating a rate between 8.0% and 10%, with the 37th highest rate in the country.” The Florida part of the report also makes several recommendations, including: “Ensure masks at all times in public, increase physical distancing through significant reduction in capacity in public and private indoor spaces, and ensure every American understands the clear risks of ANY family or friend interactions outside of their immediate household indoors without masks.” Under the recommendations, the report also notes that there are early signs of reduced personal protective equipment in specific hospitals’ reporting. Although there is a Nov. 29 report, the Florida section of that has not been posted publicly. On Monday, when a reporter asked the governor directly why this isn’t information made readily available to Floridians, DeSantis said: “Quite frankly, I think that if you look at some of the recommendations, they did not want schools open. They were not supportive of schools. You go back six months, some of those task force folks we’re saying, ‘Uh, we don’t know.’ We did know. We knew six months ago, based on the observed experience and the data and evidence out of Europe, that schools were safe, and, yet, you had these things. They say, ‘Well, you look at New York, your positivity is above some arbitrary thing, you have to close the school.’ Really? You’re going to shut kids out of an education for a metric that is literally pulled out of somebody’s hat? There’s no basis for any of that.” The News4Jax I-TEAM talked with DeSantis’ spokesperson Fred Piccolo by phone Thursday afternoon and asked him why the governor’s office didn’t share this report with the public, even after that question was asked during Monday’s news conference in Kissimmee. Piccolo said he would call back or email.
I don't think anyone said that once, let along having to tell you "again". Can you tell us again how Florida is so much worse than the rest of the country? Using data, of course. Not spamming articles.
I think it is a time to post a picture of a parrot quoting "protect the vulnerable" ---- the phrase that the DeSantis administration has pushed over and over .... but never put into action. Tell us again why Gov. DeSantis does not follow the best public health guidance from Trump's White House COVID task force.
You could always look in the closest mirror to see the parrot. Tell you again? I never said anything about that in the first place. I don't confirm it or deny it. I simply don't care. Spam away while I throw rocks. When you have the latest nursing home data you claim to be so bad, I'm here to read it. If it is as bad as you claim it will be, I have no problem in saying so.
Ron DeSantis Is the Yammiest of the Vulgar Talking Yam's Lackeys In perfect imitation of his idol in the White House, the Florida governor sidelined any real experts that he had on hand in Florida. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34874719/ron-desantis-covid-19-florida/ When the histories are written of this Era of the Two Plagues—COVID and Republican Trumpism—there will be many entries in their indexes for Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida and probably the yammiest pol in thrall to the vulgar talking yam. The pandemic has been nightmarish in Florida. There have been over a million confirmed cases in the state, and almost 20,000 deaths. And now, thanks to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, we can see clearly the length and breadth of DeSantis's utter failure to keep the public health. These findings are based on interviews with more than 50 people, including scientists, doctors, political leaders, employees of the state health department, and other state officials, as well as more than 4,000 pages of documents. The Florida Department of Health’s county-level spokespeople were ordered in September to stop issuing public statements about COVID-19 until after the Nov. 3 election. The DeSantis administration refused to reveal details about the first suspected cases in Florida, then denied the virus was spreading from person to person — despite mounting evidence that it was. State officials withheld information about infections in schools, prisons, hospitals and nursing homes, relenting only under pressure or legal action from family members, advocacy groups and journalists. The DeSantis administration brushed aside scientists and doctors who advocated conventional approaches to fighting the virus, preferring scientists on the fringes who backed the governor’s positions. The governor’s spokesman regularly takes to Twitter to spread misinformation about the disease, including the false claim that COVID was less deadly than the flu. The governor highlighted statistics that would paint the rosiest picture possible and attempted to cast doubt on the validity of Florida’s rising death toll. (Let us pause here for a moment and recognize that, as crazy as Florida politics make us all, the state really does have a seriously powerful infrastructure built to ensure government transparency.) The Sun-Sentinel's work is a powerful indictment of DeSantis's stewardship of the public health, as well as a thorough examination of Trumps at the local and state levels. During the presidential election campaign, Trump quipped that he would “fire” DeSantis if he lost Florida. DeSantis worked hard to help him win the state’s 29 electoral votes, praising Trump at news conferences and attending the president’s rallies where the maskless governor was photographed high-fiving the crowd. The attempt to deflect attention from negative news is called “blue sky” messaging, and that’s how it was described to local health representatives, according to three health department spokespeople. “Nothing gets approved without it passing through the governor’s office,” said one county health department spokesperson. “If it’s not blue sky, then it’s held up or we’re told to hold off and it never gets approved.” On Sept. 24, after months of Facebook and Twitter posts about COVID-19 safety, the health department stopped posting anything on social media about the disease, a blackout that lasted through November. The department did, however, continue to run prepaid COVID public health ads on Facebook urging handwashing, masks and social distancing. In the week before Election Day, as case counts climbed, the health department posted on Twitter and Facebook about flu vaccinations, the prevention of carbon monoxide poisoning and lead poisoning detection. Nothing about COVID-19. In addition, and in perfect imitation of his idol in the White House, DeSantis sidelined any real experts that he had on hand in Florida. “We have over 200 affiliated faculty within this institute,” said Dr. Glenn Morris, director of the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute. “This is what we do for a living. Yet the state has not taken full advantage of that expertise.” The DeSantis administration’s failure to rely on the institute — established by the state Legislature in 2006 to address disease threats to Florida — is emblematic of its decision to shut out mainstream scientists in favor of a select group who would confirm the less-restrictive COVID policies favored by many Republicans. I hope whatever DeSantis gets out of being the president*'s lapdog is worth the decades of historical opprobrium that is going to be heaped on his head. The historians of tomorrow are watching their parents and grandparents, uncles and aunts, dying painful deaths right now. They will remember these as the defining crises of their lies. And they will be merciless.
This is how you know you're doing the right thing - the MSM lapdogs go after you full tilt. Go Ron! I suspect the more Ron DeSantis tells you fruitcakes to stuff your rules up your ass the more he'll be called out by the media - and by the likes of you.
No, I'm not talking about your bullshit about him deliberately hiding the data. That's just you with your tin foil hat. Unless you've got an email or phone call from him where he is saying "Hide the data so no one knows!" Otherwise, you have no idea what is deliberate, what is incompetence, and what is bad process.
Right. The MSM never lies, never is incorrect, never has to change a previous article or edit for accuracy. Ever. If I had a nickel every time the MSM reported bullshit, I'd be a very rich man. Go on, ask me to provide an example of where the MSM was flat out wrong on something. I dare you.