Tatar’s findings have not been universally accepted. Lauren Rossen, a statistician at the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who has analyzed excess deaths, told Yahoo News that she saw nothing exceptionally suspicious in the state’s excess death numbers. “Florida doesn’t stand out to me,” she said. You don't say. What a joke. Your desperation is palpable.
If I want a today's joke I look no further than Ron DeSantis' executive order on "vaccine passports". Something he has little control over since these vaccine passports and policy will be driven at a national level. So Ron... which is it... Governor DeSantis earlier: "Businesses need to be free to make their own decisions on opening and COVID safety measures without the government imposing regulations." Governor DeSantis now: "The government of Florida will impose rules that businesses cannot require customers to be vaccinated or need a vaccine passport.." Of course in the midst of all of this the Miami Heat is adding sections only for vaccinate fans. Welcome to Ron's plague central -- with the highest death COVID toll in the nation according to researchers evaluating the data.
Policy may be driven at a national level, but he can change what businesses in Florida are able to do if he chooses. Before you make the statement that he can't supersede Federal law (technically, he cannot) understand that there are many states that have mamajuana laws that don't work well with Federal laws. Or EPA requirements that don't coincide with federal. Or labor laws, etc. You can want it to fail, but this doesn't mean it will. And this is a lie. And if it is the second most populated stated, you'd have to look at deaths per 1M. Which you know. So again, you're just making shit up to push a narrative.
So DeSantis now suddenly believes it is good for the state government to impose regulations on business. Businesses should not drive their COVID policies based on what their customers want. How enlightening! We both know that this "No Vaccine Passport" executive order has no teeth and is merely DeSantis trying to position himself as Trump's successor.
Quite the opposite. He is saying that government shouldn't impose restrictions on people because of vaccinated status. He has to use government to cancel government - that's his only tool. Trumpy trumptrump Trump. Always about Trump. DeSantis is standing up for what he believes in. And Floridians (and many others) are supporting it and thrilled. And his popularity is rising. Don't worry, you can still be locked down and safe in your closet in North Carolina. No one will bother you, and you'll still be able to rant and scream on this site (and elsewhere) and only your cats will mourn you when you're gone.
Let's take a look at what DeSantis actually said... “It’s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate in normal society,” he said. DeSantis is saying the private sector cannot impose its own COVID policy for their businesses. It's very clear.
There is wide-spread federal support for "Vaccine Passports" from both current and former (Trump) administration officials. Most other countries will be requiring vaccine passports for traveling to them... including on cruise ships -- Florida has quite the cruise ship industry. DeSantis better get in-line behind the new reality if he wants the economy in Florida to recover, or if he just wants the rest of the world to bypass Florida. ‘Break The Resistance Down’: Former DOJ Official Supports Vaccine Passports Banning People From ‘Things Their Peers Can Do https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/29/harry-litman-former-doj-official-supports-vaccine-passports/ Harry Litman, a former Department of Justice official, tweeted his support Monday for vaccine passports, saying the move would “break the resistance down.” Litman, a former deputy assistant attorney general, said, “vaccine passports are a good thing.” “It will single out the still large contingent of people who refuse vaccines, who will be foreclosed from doing a lot of things their peers can do. That should help break the resistance down,” he wrote on Twitter. The Biden administration is currently considering the adoption of a universal vaccine passport. The administration is consulting with several private sector entities looking to create digital documentation of proof of vaccination, according to a report from The Washington Post. (RELATED: REPORT: Biden Admin Working With Private Sector To Develop Universal Vaccine Passport) Several allies of the United States, such as Canada, Israel and the United Kingdom already launched similar efforts. New York is expected to launch an “Excelsior Pass App” on Friday, which would allow people to pull up a digital QR code on their phone to prove they have been vaccinated or have tested negative for the COVID-19 virus, according to USA Today. The app will be used in the coming weeks for entertainment events and other large-scale gatherings, the outlet reported.
Of course there is. Government bureaucrats always want more control over people's lives and rights. DeSantis is standing against them. More will follow.
"DeSantis for the win" --- 19,000 additional unaccounted for deaths. Add that to Florida's "official" 33,246 COVID death total. Florida is undercounting COVID-19 deaths, per new report https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs...-undercounting-covid-19-deaths-per-new-report It probably won't surprise anyone who has had to live through the state's lackadaisical response to the ongoing global pandemic but it bears stating plainly: Florida is undercounting COVID-19 deaths. That's the conclusion reached by a new report published in the American Journal of Public Health. The paper projected average deaths over six months in 2020 using historical data. It then compared that number to the actual deaths in the same time period. The results were staggering, even in a state with over 33,000 reported deaths. After accounting for the pandemic, researchers found a 15.5% increase in excess deaths, which works out to over 19,000 additional deaths. The conclusion reached in the paper's abstract is to the point. "Total deaths are significantly higher than historical trends in Florida even when accounting for COVID-19–related deaths," researchers wrote. "The impact of COVID-19 on mortality is significantly greater than the official COVID-19 data suggest." Researchers claim they chose Florida specifically because of its rush to get back to normal. With state officials urging the state to go back to work in spite of the raging pandemic, they figured (correctly) that they would find official numbers well out of whack with reality. Related Florida House Speaker denies coronavirus death toll; critics call it an attempt to 'downplay the pandemic' Figuring excess deaths is a common enough thing when researchers are hoping to find the toll of a pandemic. Because novel diseases can be hard to quantify at first, and a widespread illness has knock-on effects that can lead to deaths without sickness, researchers know that aberrations in death rates can point toward a truer picture of its impact. ”Pandemics and disasters often cause what we call ‘indirect’ deaths,” CDC data scientist Lauren Rossen explained in a press release. “An example of this is when someone dies of a heart attack or stroke because they were afraid to go to the hospital, or if changes in people’s circumstances lead to increases in suicide or drug overdose. We don’t know what’s really happening until we look at the bigger picture.” Related Tampa Bay Times analysis reveals higher COVID-19 death toll in Florida In Florida, the picture is considerably more grim. While the study does find over 4,000 cases it considers excess deaths from other causes, the bulk of its numbers are believed to be unreported COVID-19 deaths. Given the state's somewhat dodgy history around reporting the numbers - where potential whistleblowers were harassed by police and the state suppressed reports from medical examiners - the underreporting seems much more deliberate.