Delta accounts for over 97% of the cases in the U.S. for months now. This "Florida first" nonsense does not account for the difference being seen between large population warm-weather states such as California versus Florida. It is all associated with proper public health practices such as vaccine and mask mandates. Allowing unvaccinated people to attend large gatherings (like they do in Florida) is absurd. Similar in regards to mask in schools, etc. DeSantis is doing everything possible to kill the residents of his state.
You better look into how proper public health prevention measures work to stop disease. This is why we no longer shiat in the streets, treat our water, drain the locations where mosquitoes breed, isolate the infectious, and take steps such as mandatory vaccinations to keep society healthy.
Yes mitigation can help Certainly to pile Covid positive old people inside nursing homes is one way to mitigate the spread
You mean DeSantis piling Covid-positive elderly patients into Florida nursing homes owned by high-dollar donors and calling them "isolation centers" was a bad idea in 2020. Of course all of these Florida nursing homes were quickly overrun with Covid leading to many deaths. Clearly DeSantis learned nothing from the New York nursing home experience despite lecturing Cuomo about it.
You've been a stream of denial as Florida has one of the biggest Covid outbreaks on the planet. All the charts you keep posting Florida is rapidly moving up those rankings. Impressive really that in a vaccine era they could fuck it up this badly. It takes a whole load of willful ignorance and ineptitude to do so.
Remember those $1000 bonus checks that DeSantis gave teachers -- with lots of loud political bloviating on his part -- well they are bouncing. Florida Teachers Say They Can't Cash Their $1,000 Bonus Checks From State https://www.binnews.com/content/202...cant-cash-their-1000-bonus-checks-from-state/ Earlier this year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised $1,000 bonus checks for Florida teachers during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The checks have finally arrived, but some educators say their checks are bouncing, according to the Tampa Bay Times. At least 50 teachers across the state claim they can't cash their checks. Most of them reportedly keep getting the same response: "insufficient funds." (More at above url)
This stupidity about Australia comes from Gov. DeSantis who had his draconian anti-riot law targeting black people for excessive punishment for protesting overturned as being unconstitutional. DeSantis apparently is an "expert" on pushing policing rules to make a country not free -- he really should look closer to home for examples of poor Covid policies as the death toll in Florida continues to increase at a rapid clip. Gov. DeSantis says the US should rethink its alliance with Australia over its military-enforced COVID lockdowns, says it is 'not a free country' and compares its government to communist China https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...hink-alliance-Australia-not-free-country.html
DeSantis' checks to teachers are still bouncing -- despite the letter he sent with them promoting how great he is. So much "winning". The chutzpah behind the Florida teacher bonus checks that bounced https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story...teacher-bonus-checks-gets-bounced/5897411001/ Dear Teacher: If you are getting this letter, you are one of the dozens of Florida school teachers who were “impacted” – as we like to say – when trying to deposit your $1,000 bonus check. We regret your impaction and would like to give you a brief history of your bounced Florida check. To understand the bonus check you received in the mail, you need to go back to the American Rescue Plan, a federal act aimed at helping to get people through the health and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The act, which passed in March, was a $1.9 trillion plan that provided stimulus checks to 20 million Floridians, housing assistance, expanded unemployment benefits, sick leave, expanded food stamp benefits, earned income tax credit, Medicaid and a child tax credit for 3.8 million children in the state. Federal rescue act a boon to state budgets It also gave state and local governments flexibility to fund the needs of their communities. The plan was opposed as an excessive spending measure by every Congressional Republican in Florida. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott went as far as saying that Florida should refuse all the money, about $17.6 billion, coming to the state under the plan. Gov. Ron DeSantis was against the federal rescue plan too, even though without it, the state was facing deep cuts in education and health-care services. But instead of acknowledging that Florida was in need of rescue, DeSantis took the stance that the state was doing so well under his leadership that it didn’t need the money. “I think it’s designed basically to bail out the poorly governed states,” DeSantis said in March. But by June, with Florida awash in federal bail-out money, DeSantis was already taking credit for spending the money he had opposed. Those federal dollars turned cuts into surpluses and funded nearly half the state’s K-12 budget. Federal dollars make Florida flush It allowed the state to pass $101.5 billion budget – a 10 percent increase over the previous year. “I think the budget really reflects a state government that is meeting the core concerns of Floridians,” DeSantis said as he signed it. It also reflected what a federal bailout could do. The state earmarked some of it to go to $1,000 checks to teachers, firefighters and police officers. And DeSantis wasted no time in taking credit for those checks. “While other places are trying to defund the police, we’re funding the police and then some,” he said. But wait. Patting himself on the back for giving out the money he opposed had yet to reach its peak level of chutzpah. In the past, bonus checks for teachers were handled on the district level and paid through electronic transfers. For these bonus checks, though, the money was going to go out in paper checks. This would give DeSantis a chance to put his name on the front of every check as well as to mail it with an accompanying letter from him, in case the signature was too subtle as a gesture of soliciting thanks. To do this, the state paid $3.6 million to a vendor to cut paper checks. The paper checks also required the additional expense of postage to the 176,000 recipients. In the end, it made for a costly way to take credit, even if that credit was justified – which in this case it wasn’t. Florida solicits thanks in a pricey way The $3.6 million alone would pay for 3,600 more $1,000 payments to other Floridians. But instead, what it paid for was a piece of paper telling you teacherssomething that wasn’t true: that you had DeSantis to thank for the extra money. It’s a bold move, especially considering that he’s the same governor who has been recklessly endangering your lives by opposing mask mandates in your schools. I guess he has calculated that playing with your health can be be offset by a $1,000 gesture? Tough choice, teachers. I guess you need to weigh things. On the one hand, he’s trying to kill you. But on the other hand, he’s giving you an extra $1,000 to spend before you’re hospitalized. DeSantis didn’t help his chances by the execution of this plan. Because now, you’ve finally gotten your check, only to discover that it bounced at your bank for nonsufficient funds. It’s just a glitch, you’ve been told. It will be corrected. You’ll get your money. It’s just a “banking error.” Florida will fix it. I’m not sure what that means, but I’d be skeptical if you get another letter from the state advising you to smear some ivermectin horse dewormer on the check’s routing number.