Facts vs fear mongering. Luckily we can see the data for ourselves. your bullshit is now focusing on variants instead of the virus overall. Deaths down... virus still in a plateau but you could see this as an inflection point over the next week or two for the virus. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/
"DeSantis for the win" - The governor will not be getting the cruise industry back in Florida anytime soon despite his lawsuits. The U.S. Senate is blocking any re-consideration of domestic cruises starting anytime before the current CDC date of November 1st. Attempts To Quickly Pass CRUISE Act Blocked In U.S. Senate https://radiokenai.net/attempts-to-quickly-pass-cruise-act-blocked-in-u-s-senate/ Republican U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Rick Scott of Florida attempted to advance their Careful Resumption Under Improved Safety Enhancements (CRUISE) Act on the Senate Floor on Wednesday, but Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington objected, preventing the bill from passing. The CRUISE Act also was introduced by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. It would revoke the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s current Conditional Sailing Order on cruises and require the CDC to provide COVID-19 mitigation guidance for cruise lines to safely resume operations. Similar legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Don Young. The CRUISE Act would require the CDC to issue recommendations for how to mitigate the risks of COVId-19 to passengers and crew aboard the cruise ships. it would establish a working group that will develop recommendations to facilitate the resumption of passenger cruise ship operations in the United States. The recommendations will facilitate the resumption of passenger cruise ship operations in the U.S. no later than July 4, 2021. The CRUISE Act would also require the CDC, no later than July 4th to revoke the Conditional Sailing Order. Lastly, it would ensure that the Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC to retain all appropriate authorities and enforce regulations necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread communicable diseases on any individual cruise ship. More on the CRUISE Act can be found here.
Let's take a look at the many other states which are providing vaccine distribution and administration data by zip code. Can someone explain why DeSantis' Florida does not do this? Even a red state like Arizona provides this data... ADHS adds map showing number of COVID-19 vaccines administered in each ZIP code https://www.azfamily.com/news/conti...cle_af4c16da-79ed-11eb-b3b7-73d01df565d5.html The deep red state of Texas... https://dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/AdditionalData.aspx Of course, Massachusetts https://www.mass.gov/info-details/m...eekly-covid-19-municipality-vaccination-data- Can anyone explain why little Ron is hiding the COVID vaccine data by zip code? Even punishing Orange county for releasing some of it. Could it be that the data proves conclusively that his administration steered COVID vaccine doses to wealthy white zip codes. Where are the millions who aren’t getting vaccinated? Florida won’t say. State officials are supposed to be tracking shots by ZIP code so they can see where the need is. But records on that are hard to come by. https://www.tampabay.com/news/healt...ho-arent-getting-vaccinated-florida-wont-say/
Oh... look. As usual Tsing Tao has nothing possible to say in defense of DeSantis hiding Florida vaccination data by zip code. Earlier he re-directed by demanding "prove other states" provide this data otherwise it doesn't matter. Even other deep red state provide vaccination by zip code data. At this point if DeSantis has nothing to hide and to support his position that the "60 Minutes" reporting was false you would think he would release this data. But instead he is hiding it and refusing to release the public records as required by state law. What a "winner" he is.
Sorry, man. I didn't even get to this thread. I'm not here every day and sometimes your spamming articles just goes unnoticed. Your pardon, please. You say "even other deep red state(s) provide vaccination by zip code data." Sooo...Texas and Arizona, and the very deep red state of Massachusetts provide the data. So you've shown that 3 states out of 50 provide it. Well done. That proves that TX, AZ and MA all have better systems for capturing data than Florida. From your highly partisan article at the Tampa Bay Times: The state this week handed over documents from 12 of Florida’s 67 counties, responding to a request for data showing ZIP codes of people who have received COVID-19 shots so far. The documents are scattered and incomplete, coming in various formats, containing varying levels of detail and in some cases months old. They appear to be analyses done by local officials in each of those counties. Not surprising. Record keeping in Florida is usually spotty and problematic at best. But its not some nefarious plot by the evil DeSantis like you make out to be. Of course, you'd have a stronger case if you could show us the other 46 states and what they do.
His hands are even smaller...... Florida Republicans advance bill to fine social media companies for banning extremists: This Monday, the Florida Senate voted to approve a measure that will crack down on social media platforms that ban users, CBS Miami reports. The measure will now go to the House. "DeSantis has made a priority of the issue after decisions by Twitter and Facebook to block former President Donald Trump from their platforms in January after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to prevent certification of President Joe Biden's election victory," CBS Miami reports. "The bill, in part, would bar social-media companies from removing political candidates from the companies' platforms. Companies that violate the prohibition could face fines of $100,000 a day for statewide candidates and $10,000 a day for other candidates." According to the bill's sponsor, Ray Rodrigues (R-Estero), "big tech is not a free market." "When the battle is between a monopoly on one side and hard-working Americans on the other, the right side of history has always been on the side of the people," Rodrigues said. "It has never been on the side of the monopolies, not in this country."
So an entity which takes government funds donates over a million dollars to Ron DeSantis' re-election fund. Everyone should see what is wrong with this. Pier operator donates $1 million to DeSantis political committee amid battle over cruise ship traffic https://www.rawstory.com/florida-bu...ons-give-desantis-committee-almost-1-million/ The operator of a Florida pier that gets most of Key West's cruise ship traffic has donated nearly $1 million to the political committee of Gov. Ron DeSantis, The Miami Herald reports. According to the Herald, the donation from Delray Beach-based businessman Mark Walsh is notable because legislation seeking to overturn a voter-approved referendum to limit cruise traffic may soon find itself on DeSantis' desk. Walsh gave $995,000 to Friends of Ron DeSantis, the political committee operated by the governor, according to data uncovered by the Herald's investigation. "Walsh leases the state-owned terminal on Key West Harbor in front of the Margaritaville Resort, which his family owns along with dozens of other hotels," the Herald reports. "His company helped finance the opposition to the three referendums approved by Key West voters by wide margins in November. The effort involved a disinformation campaign, funded in part by a 'dark money' scheme that included contributions from the cruise industry, which publicly stayed out of the campaign." Three new ordinances, which were hugely popular with voters in November, ban cruise ships with over 1,300 passengers from docking at the city port and limit the total number of cruise that leave the area each day to 1,500. One of the ordinances gives preference to cruise ships with favorable environmental records. "After the measurespassed, legislation emerged by Sen. Jim Boyd, a Bradenton Republican and Rep. Spencer Roach, a North Fort Myers Republican, to cancel out their vote to limit cruise ship traffic in the Florida Keys," the Herald's Mary Ellen Klas writes. Read the full report over at The Miami Herald.
"DeSantis for the win" - Cruise ship companies making plans to move their ships to sail from other U.S. ports if Florida attempts to enforce their "vaccination passport" ban. What a loser this guy is.... chasing an entire industry away from Florida ports. Vaccine Debate in Florida Could Affect the Return of Cruising https://www.travelpulse.com/news/fe...rida-could-affect-the-return-of-cruising.html
Let's see what a school run by a GOP donor and DeSantis supporter is doing. Oh, it involves COVID and is batshiat insane.... and perfectly aligned with everything DeSantis represents. Florida private school threatens jobs of teachers who seek COVID-19 vaccines https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...tens-jobs-teachers-who-seek-covid-19-vaccines Many universities are moving to require students and faculty to receive COVID-19 vaccines before returning to campus in the fall. But one private pre-K to 8th grade school in Florida has turned that on its head, The New York Times reports today. The school last week told its teachers and other staff they should avoid the “COVID-19 injection” because of the purported dangers that vaccinated people posed to students. A co-founder of the Centner Academy in Miami, Leila Centner, informed its 50 teachers and 25 support staff that if they choose to be vaccinated against COVID-19, they will not be welcome back on campus in the fall. Those already vaccinated will need to be separated from children while at school, according to a letter she sent to the school’s staff that was obtained by the newspaper. Science was alerted to a similar letter Centner sent earlier today to the parents of the academy’s 270 students. Centner, a former financial executive, started the school with her husband, technology entrepreneur and Republican donor David Centner. In the more recent letter, Leila Centner writes: “It is our policy, to the extent possible, not to employ anyone who has taken the experimental COVID-19 injection until further information is known. … It is in the best interests of the children to protect them from the unknown implications of being in close proximity for the entire day with a teacher who has very recently taken the COVID-19 injection.” To explain this decision, which contradicts recommendations from public health agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization, Centner writes: “Tens of thousands of women all over the world have recently been reporting adverse reproductive issues simply from being in close proximity with those who have received any one of the COVID-19 injections, e.g., irregular menses, bleeding, miscarriages, post-menopausal hemorrhaging, and amenorrhea (complete loss of menstruation). No one knows exactly what may be causing these irregularities, but it appears that those who have received the injections may be transmitting something from their bodies to those with whom they come in contact.” Such discredited claims about COVID-19 vaccines have been circulating in certain corners of social media. “There is no evidence that individuals vaccinated for COVID-19 can transmit the vaccines to others or that vaccination of one person can have negative health effects on others,” the National Institutes of Health told Reuters recently. FDA has determined that the COVID-19 vaccines now available in the United States are safe and effective. There was anger and distress about the vaccine policy among some parents at the academy, where tuition is $24,000. “It’s very important to shed some light on this,” one parent, who asked to remain anonymous, told Science. “She is purporting that vaccinated people somehow harm others.” The Centner Academy hosted antivaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. for two talks at the school in January. NBC News also reported in March that David Centner was the executive producer of Kennedy’s latest antivaccine film. When asked by Science to comment on her letters, Leila Centner responded with a statement provided by her publicist: “Our responses and actions have consistently been out of an abundance of caution and thoughtful decision-making when risks to our children are presented. This includes physical … risks.” Another parent of a Centner Academy student found the school’s vaccine policy unfathomable, however. “I feel so sorry for the teachers having to navigate this. Can you imagine?”