Ah, but when Florida had its Delta spike this summer, you never said one peep about Delta being three times more contagious as being the reason numbers were high. It was all DeSantis! DeSantis! You're such a fraud, loser. Double standards all the way.
Let's take a look at the reality in Florida... It is astounding how many Floridians DeSantis has killed to score political points in recent months. Deadliest. Viral. Campaign. Ever. 21,731 Floridians died so Ron DeSantis could sell idiots this T-shirt https://thedailyedge.substack.com/p/deadliest-viral-campaign-ever It’s November 2021. We have vaccines. We know about masks and social distancing. We have more and better treatments. Yet despite all that, the “GOP Death Cult” and its deadly War on Science continues to ensure that tens of thousands of Americans are getting infected each day. And the lies and misinformation promoted by the GOP’s leadership continue to send thousands upon thousands of Americans to unnecessarily early graves. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Governor Ron DeSantis’ Florida. Covid-19 deaths in Florida have soared 56% since July 12. On 12 July 2021, the day Governor Ron DeSantis started selling “Don’t Fauci My Florida” T-shirts and other dickish merchandise on his campaign website, 38,687 Floridians were already dead from Covid-19. As of today, 12 November, that number is 60,418—reflecting 21,731 additional deaths, an increase of 56%, in just four months. Put another way, Ron DeSantis has allowed more people to die of Covid-19 in Florida (population 21.6 million) since 12 July than have died in Japan and South Korea (combined population 177 million) over the entire duration of the pandemic. Of course, the Republicans who told you Obama did a terrible job during the H1N1 pandemic that killed 12,469 Americans between 2009-10 still want you to believe DeSantis is doing a terrific job during the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest conservative media spin is that because of DeSantis’ “leadership,” Florida now has the lowest Covid-19 case rate in the country. It’s factoid that conveniently ignores the fact that “Regeneron Ron” turned the summer of 2021 into a unrelenting season of death for Floridians, sending the state’s Covid-19 death toll soaring to nearly 5X the total nationwide death toll from H1N1. Last month The Guardian reported that, following a 6-month investigation, a Brazilian Senate committee had voted 7-4 to recommend that president Jair Bolsonaro be criminally indicted “on charges ranging from charlatanism and inciting crime to misuse of public funds and crimes against humanity, and in doing so hold him responsible for many of Brazil’s more than 600,000 Covid-19 deaths.” In a saner country, after a summer surge that skyrocketed Florida’s per capita death rate to the same level as Brazil’s, Ron DeSantis should be facing his own charges for crimes against humanity. Instead, he remains a frontrunner for the GOP’s 2024 nomination. Republicans are just suckers for viral marketing.
Florida is ranked 8 in deaths per 1M pop. And the third largest state. That's a win, baby. And he did it without lockdowns, without mandates, without curbing freedoms. And its why DeSantis is essentially the most popular governor in the country.
Yeah... let's take a look at reality and the comparison to other states -- with the CDC data. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#compare-trends Let's also take a look at the actual full vaccination rate as of November 7th of the top 5 states in cases. https://www.healthline.com/health-n...-2#block-7560b4e1-bf82-4661-a1f2-4efa99fc9604 While we are at it -- let's take a look at the full and partial vaccination rates in Minnesota as of November 13th. The partial vaccination rate is a mere 66.5% -- nowhere near the 80% claimed by this clown you reposted from Twitter. Of course he weasel-words with 80% of adults which is also demonstratively incorrect - Minnesota has not achieved this level of partially vaccinated adults yet. Once again the claims pushed by this particular Covid-denier, ianmSC, on Twitter are pretty much bullshiat which is taken out of context. I will note their charts are being actively removed as Covid misinformation on other social media platforms. Tell us again why you regularly push Covid misinformation you find on social media while tens of thousands of people are dying across the globe due to Covid misinformation. Of course we can compare Minnesota to Florida.
So all of this windbagging and all you did was confirm the tweet with the CDC chart. Minnesota does indeed have the highest case rate at the moment in the United States. Precisely like the tweet said. Nothing was incorrect.
So has Minnesota achieved a single dose adult vaccination rate of 80% - Nope. The other hint... as of today Minnesota does not have the highest case rate in the U.S. The Tweet is fabricated nonsense. Let's take a look at a reminder about DeSantis' Florida again... the state with peak Delta death.
Ron DeSantis Is on Team COVID, and Damn Whatever Happens to Florida The Florida governor has been waging a war on public health, with predictably horrifying results. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-is-on-team-covid-and-damn-whatever-happens-to-florida Politicians are often derided as opportunists; but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took things to a new level by killing his supporters for political gain. In July, a virologist on the faculty of Florida Medical College warned that the highly transmissible Delta variant of theCOVID-19 virus was about to cause a massive new wave of illness and death within the state’s still large unvaccinated population. “If you have a functioning set of lungs and no immunity, this virus will find you,” he said. DeSantis seemed to face a stark decision: Whether to implement the public health measures necessary to mitigate the impact of the new variant, or to stand by and allow many to suffer unnecessary illness and death. (More at above url)