Ron DeSantis Announces Plan to Basically Ensure Florida Schoolchildren Get COVID The Florida governor is now threatening to withhold pay from school districts that require masks in the fall. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/ron-desantis-florida-covid-anti-mask-measures
"DeSantis for the win" -- He's outright joyful when his policies leads to piles of bodies that require refrigerated trucks and harm thousands of school children. As long as he can play to Trump's base. Florida Still Sees Record COVID-19 Surge As School Year Begins, But DeSantis Digs In The Republican governor won’t budge on his order banning mask mandates in schools, despite the delta variant causing severe infections among kids. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/flor...ar-begins-desantis_n_6111d5a8e4b0da973b3c6642
I'm neither kidding nor exaggerating when I say he should be charged with criminal negligence. I hope it comes to pass in the fullness of time. And then I hope his cellmate makes him eat dirt.
In China -- they take officials away who failed to take proper public safety measures to stop COVID. Nobody knows what has happened to these public officials -- but the expectation is that they were just taken out and shot. Communist China is punishing 30+ officials over new COVID outbreak – but how is the question https://americanmilitarynews.com/20...r-new-covid-outbreak-but-how-is-the-question/ The Delta variant of COVID-19 has emerged in China, and communist Chinese state-run media has announced it is punishing local officials and health directors for the outbreak. More than 30 officials across China, including mayors, local health directors and heads of hospitals and airports, have been punished for the arrival of COVID-19 Delta variant cases in China, China’s state-run Global Times reported. No one knows what that punishment entailed, however. The Chinese media outlet reported, “Experts said the timely punishment for the incompetent officials in the epidemic control work is an appropriate action as the anti-epidemic battle bears no loopholes, mistakes or neglect by those in charge of the work.” Global Times reported that China has recorded a total of 1,507 confirmed new symptomatic COVID-19 cases as of Saturday. China had recorded nearly 900 new symptomatic COVID-19 infections across the country in less than a month, according to Bloomberg. The latest COVID-19 outbreak has also hit more than half of mainland China’s 31 provinces In just the eastern Chinese city of Yangzhou, five officials were accused of mishandling mass testing; a failure which the city government said has allowed the virus to continue spreading. Yangzhou alone had 308 confirmed cases reported as of Monday. Six patients are reportedly listed critically ill and if any of them were to die, it would be China’s first reported COVID-19 death in more than six months. The new infections in China represent the most widespread infections since COVID-19 cases were first recorded in the central Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019. The new cases also come in spite of China’s so-called “COVID Zero” approach, in which the country will aggressively lockdown in the face of even small case numbers. While the majority of China’s population is vaccinated, Chinese authorities are not relying on vaccinations alone to stop the spread of new cases. China will instead rely on mass testing and targeted lockdowns to stop the virus from spreading. (More at above url)
Interesting to see many parents are planning to take their children out of public schools if masks are not mandated and place the kids in private schools which require masks. They also plan to demand the state of Florida pay for vouchers to do this. ‘Gladiator Pit’: Florida’s School COVID War Is Somehow Uglier Than Ever As cases skyrocket, Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to penalize school districts for imposing mask mandates—and parents not only fear the virus but that public schools lose out. https://www.thedailybeast.com/flori...-like-theyre-throwing-us-into-a-gladiator-pit With the Delta variant running rampant across Florida and cases of extremely sick children on the rise, Jerry Greenberg is terrified about sending his kids back to school in Pinecrest, an incorporated village in Miami-Dade County. The 47-year-old has an 11-year-old daughter set to start sixth grade at Palmetto Middle School and a 14-year-old son poised to begin ninth grade at Palmetto Senior High. But with public school leaders across the state facing off against Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has insisted on banning mask mandates for kids, Greenberg is mulling a radical change. (More at above url)
Yeah, but it wouldn't translate well. DeSantis getting taken out and shot would be equivalent to a vaccination against stupid. I'd rather see him eat dirt, and lots of it. For years.
Great job, Ron... Florida’s Death Toll Now Exceeds DeSantis’ Margin of Victory The base still buys his act, but other Floridians appear to have their doubts as the Delta variant spreads and hospitalizations are soaring. https://www.thedailybeast.com/floridas-death-toll-now-exceeds-desantis-margin-of-victory
The funny part of this was the Florida legislature has been proposing to allow children to get a voucher to go to private school if their public schools required masks -- because a "mask mandate" is a form of Bullying" they claimed. The parents have turned this around with over 80% of them demanding vouchers to go to private schools which require masks when their public schools system fails to requirement them. The Florida legislature just views the masking thing as a way of undermining public schools by promoting vouchers --- however they never thought the voucher demand would come from hordes of parents who are demanding masks in schools this fall.