that’s a fair point. However do you believe Florida succeeded in their outcome during Covid? If so, do you think that credit falls on the governor. Or if so, perhaps the success of Florida was related to other factors and desantis had no idea what he was doing other than following Trumps ideology.
Florida has some natural advantages against the COVID virus. The state has no winter, high humidity, and ample sunshine which helps reduce the rate of infection of the virus. As noted by scientists who studied COVID in Florida & elsewhere there is a strong correlation to being indoors and infection levels. In northern states people are indoors in winter leading to a winter peak; in Florida people tend to go indoors when the summer heat starts in June/July. If the governor of Florida had followed proper public health practices the state should be near the lowest in the nation for COVID, not just the middle of the pack. See Hawaii for another warm, sunny, humid state with a death rate of 32 per million compared to Florida's 151 per million. The difference is that Hawaii followed proper public health practices. Florida, with the highest U.S. level of more infectious & deadly COVID variants, is currently the epicenter of spreading COVID variants across the U.S. DeSantis has been actively promoting biker week and spring break in Florida -- while showing no concern that the attendees will be spreading more infectious & deadly variants across the U.S. I will note the first 37 COVID variant cases found in North Carolina all involved people who visited Florida. DeSantis' poor public health policies do not only impact the residents of his state but the people living in surrounding states. The U.S. is currently in a race between vaccinations and variants. If we can just keep the variants from spreading greatly for the next 3 months as vaccination levels quickly rise --- then our entire country has a much greater probability of returning to "normal life" quickly. DeSantis' poor policies and actions undermine the entire COVID national effort.
I thought Florida stood in the middle on Covid statistics (I am aware that the statistics have data integrity problems) without shutting down their economy. I agree on the advantages and that Florida probably exported as much Covid as it does OJ
LOL so your state botched the entire COVID response, destroyed your economy and drove your children to madness and you want to blame Florida? Hilarious. Its a clown show and the clowns are on acid.
Is English your second language? I have been commending Florida’s response. Your lack of reading comprehension isn’t surprising. It’s typical for dumb reactionary morons like you.
Yeah obviously that is what you were saying here: Please. Mind your own state or country and stop blaming others.
it was a snarky comment on the amount of tourism Florida has enjoyed during Covid. I thought you trumpers were the kings of not taking statements literally. That’s why you could ignore all his babbling racist ignorant lies.
I take it from your nick that you are Canadian. Seriously, get a beer and some poutine fries and worry about your own country.
Nope. I've stated where I live several times on this forum. It might be a foreign (see what i did there) concept to you, but people can like bands from other countries.
Florida would not have this problem if DeSantis had a written vaccination plan aligned with federal government guidelines. The federal government recommends when demand eases for a eligible group in a county, the county should move on to the next group. Gov. DeSantis: change in eligibility at OCCC site not mayor's decision to make https://www.wesh.com/article/change-in-eligibility-at-occc-desantis-demings/35890357 Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings says he is unapologetic about his decision to allow those 40 and older to get COVID-19 vaccines at the Orange County Convention Center starting Monday. Gov. Ron DeSantis says it's not the mayor's decision to make. "It's not his decision to make, there's a structure in the state of Florida in terms of how these decisions are made," DeSantis said. Friday morning in Tallahassee, DeSantis said he is not happy with Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings' move to make the Orange County Convention Center a 40 and older vaccination site starting Monday. "You know I would note, Orange County is below the state average in seniors vaccinated there at 63%. Trying to do healthy 40-year-olds, over finding maybe some more seniors, to me, would not be the direction that I would go," DeSantis said. However, the argument of lower demand and expanding to other ages is something that DeSantis has acknowledged statewide as he expands Florida's age to 50 and over starting Monday. Deming's decision was made after seeing low turnout from already eligible age groups. "I believe that what the other counties are experiencing with a high level of those who are 60 plus, or 50 plus having already been received vaccines within their respective counties, that 50% or better of their population. I don't believe that with us making the adjustment to go to 40 is going to be problematic for us," Demings said. "Do I need to get permission to do that? Told you before, I don't feel like I have to get permission to be the mayor of Orange County from Tallahassee."