https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/desantis-the-authoritarian.367828/page-19#post-5668585 Burrow Creatures seeking the light... https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/desantis-the-authoritarian.367828/page-19#post-5668585
CuddleBumps, you one uninformed boy. "Antifa was never a threat,..." Portland OR don't register on your radar? They burned down municipal buildings and the "Rose City" is now just another Loving Liberal Democrat Hypocrite Hellhole. Come out of america's refrigerator and Trudy's Fascist ways and look around outside your moldy little burrow. lol. CA NA DA!
Altercation: Ron DeSantis Is an Honest-to-God Semi-Fascist And it’s past time for the mainstream media to say so. https://prospect.org/politics/altercation-ron-desantis-is-an-honest-to-god-semi-fascist/
So despite there being multiple states with higher or effectively equal population -- Florida is #1 in Covid deaths for many months. "It’s also the third summer in a row Florida has been No. 1 for COVID deaths." DeSantis and his cronies are directly responsible for the oversized number of Covid deaths in Florida in what can only be described as a public health disaster. Florida leads nation in COVID deaths even as cases continue to decline https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story...eaths-though-cases-keep-declining/7904033001/ For the third month in a row, Florida logged more COVID-19 deaths than anywhere else in America. The state’s COVID death toll grew by 1,614 people in August, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows. As coronavirus omicron subvariants swept the state this summer, Florida fatalities topped the nation from June through August. It’s also the third summer in a row Florida has been No. 1 for COVID deaths. The state became the national epicenter for the disease in August 2020, after Gov. Ron DeSantis began allowing businesses and public places to reopen. The state again became the COVID fatality capital of America last year in July and August, months after state officials suspended all remaining pandemic restrictions. The disease has killed at least 80,027 Floridians since the start of the pandemic, excluding more than 3,000 victims whom state auditors found by combing through records from 2020 in which physicians classified someone's cause of death as COVID, but the state Health Department did not. Florida added 454 people to its COVID death toll since the state last published its biweekly pandemic report Aug. 26. That’s less than the average weekly increase during the two weeks covered by that report. But it’s higher than the weekly sums logged in April and May. Even so, the new federal data also shows that the current COVID wave is continuing to decline statewide. Hospitals across Florida tended to 2,850 COVID-positive patients, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported Friday, down from a summertime peak of more than 4,000 in late July. Health officials logged about 39,000 new COVID cases in the past week, CDC figures released Friday show. That’s the smallest amount since early May. An untold number of infections don’t make it into official statistics because of the rise of at-home tests, whose results aren’t recorded. Sewage from across the state also is turning up less of the virus, wth results showing fewer coronavirus particles compared to four weeks ago. Readings from Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Orange, Seminole, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties all show declines, according to Boston-based laboratory Biobot Analytics. Wastewater can reveal COVID trends faster than official case counts. Infected people often shed the most virus at the beginning of their infection. Meanwhile, Florida pharmacies were preparing this weekend for new COVID vaccines that target the pathogen’s omicron mutation and its subvariants, after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave them final approval Thursday. Several Publix pharmacies in Palm Beach County said Friday they expect to receive the new doses this weekend. CVS and Walgreens are scheduling and administering shots, the companies said Friday. These shots, tested on mice, are designed to target the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants. As the latest viral wave, driven by BA.5, wanes, the BA.4.6 subvariant comprises a larger share of infections, tests collected by the CDC shows. But the new subvariant is so similar to the ones the new vaccine targets that it could effectively fight new mutations of omicron subvariants. Virtually every COVID infection across Florida and the U.S. that have been documented this year were caused by omicron and its mutations. The new virus-fighters come to a state whose vaccination rate has barely budged since June, despite the spread of omicron subvariants. About 81% of Florida residents have gotten at least one shot in their arms, the CDC reported Friday, including about 28% with boosters. People may have been waiting for the new, omicron-focused vaccines, said Dr. Larry Bush, an infectious disease specialist and former president of the Palm Beach County Medical Society. “Perhaps folks were hoping and waiting for this combination vaccine,” Bush said. People should get the so-called “updated boosters” — Moderna’s is approved for adults 18 and older, Pfizer, 12 and up — at least two months after their most recent dose of the vaccine, the federal government says. Smaller pharmacies, which have also placed orders, expect to receive the updated boosters next week. If a shot-seeker lacks insurance, pharmacies will not receive reimbursement from the federal government after administering the vaccine. That’s because federal money to pay for shots dried up in April when Republican senators blocked a $10 billion COVID bill using the legislative procedure known as the filibuster. That requires 60 votes to overcome, but 52 senators, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, voted against ending a filibuster. Smaller pharmacies pay out of pocket to vaccinate the uninsured. “We would never say, ‘No, we wouldn’t give it to you because you can't pay,’” said pharmacist Jessica Beal, of Hobbes Pharmacy on Merritt Island in Brevard County. The federal government will run out of money by the end of this year to buy more COVID vaccines, the Biden Administration has warned. By 2023, people would start paying out of pocket for costs not covered by insurance. COVID has infected more than 7 million people statewide.
aww shuck. Well, he got his 15 mins of press so that's all that counts I guess: Do you now see GWB how most of these "voter fraud" cases are BS, and are only there to be exploited, abused, and suppress the vote of minorities & dems? That the disenfranchisement damage far outweighs the impact? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a spectacle out of the round of arrests made by his election police force earlier this month, jailing 20 people on charges of voter fraud and promising more prosecutions to come. At least one target was dragged to jail in his underwear by a SWAT team at 6 a.m. But it turns out that the individuals ensnared in DeSantis’ dragnet had no idea that they could not lawfully vote. The governor’s own appointees flubbed their legal duty to stop them from registering. And because of their sloppy errors, all 20 defendants may well be acquitted of crimes they did not intend to commit. This law applies to any voter who casts a ballot “knowing he or she is not a qualified elector.” In other words, prosecutors must prove (to a jury, beyond a reasonable doubt) that the defendants knew their votes were illegal. Clearly, they had no such knowledge
Florida Power & Light secretly funding DeSantis... How are your electric rates doing, Florida? DeSantis ’18 campaign got $25,000 from nonprofit secretly funded by FPL cash, records show https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article265213541.html Gov. Ron DeSantis has avoided weighing in on the political scandals swirling around Florida Power & Light. And his newly formed elections police force has shown little interest in investigating. In the run-up to the 2018 election, Broken Promises — a mysterious nonprofit group registered to a UPS box in the nation’s capital — gave $25,000 to a political committee called Consumer for Energy Fairness. It was the first donation the committee received that year. The next day, Consumers for Energy Fairness passed $25,000 to Ron DeSantis’ political committee, according to state campaign finance records. The donation raised no eyebrows. The sum was a fraction of the nearly $59 million DeSantis collected in his successful bid for governor. And there is no ban on DeSantis or any other candidate receiving money funneled from nonprofits like Broken Promises, which don’t have to disclose their donors. But a trove of documents leaked to the Miami Herald reveals the hidden financial backer behind Broken Promises: Florida Power & Light, the powerful electric utility now at the center of a string of political scandals. The scandals involve attempts by FPL’s political consultants to secretly manipulate Florida elections. Broken Promises’ donation to DeSantis is the first time the governor’s campaign has been linked, in this case indirectly, to the activities of FPL’s political consultants. In one controversy among many, consultants working for FPL used Broken Promises to covertly fund a spoiler candidate in a 2018 Gainesville-area state Senate race, a Herald investigation found. The candidate, a longtime Democrat, split the liberal vote, ensuring that a Republican friendly to the utility hung onto the seat. Saurav Ghosh, director of federal campaign finance reform at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C., likened the arrangement to “election rigging” and said it potentially violate state campaign finance laws against shielding the true source of political contributions. FPL is allowed to contribute to any political campaigns it chooses — unless the contribution is deliberately channeled through third parties in a bid to obscure its source. Campaigns are not obliged to research the source of money given to them by donors. (Much more at above url)
Deaths per Million : Canada 1146, Florida 3735 ( translates to an extra 55.6K deaths ) Interesting that after vaccines and know how on how the deal with Covid occurred that this ratio went from roughly a factor of 2 to well more the 3. "Tsing Tao" theory in 2020 : Once seasonality kicks in Canada will catch up to Florida on Covid numbers.
It did not and will not because one country made it more about politics instead of about a health crisis while the other country made it more about a health crisis...less about politics. The above is very obvious and doesn't take a rocket scientist to analyze. I've been to several countries recently and I saw the most misinformation about Covid and about Vaccines in the United States. The one thing I learned from this Pandemic...we can not count on the other person to do the right thing to protect their community or protect their family. Now the world is in a bad place with worsening economics, energy crisis, crazy climate change, and growing debt to try to keep up with the global stupidity. Stupidity because once again...they're making it about politics. It is what it is. wrbtrader
The DeSantis appointees to the anti-vax Covid-denier Florida medical board fail to follow basic medical rules... Florida surgeon on state medical board faces anesthesia complaint The Florida Board of Medicine regulates and disciplines doctors. Now, one of its own members — Ravi Chandra — could be penalized. https://www.tampabay.com/news/healt...ate-medical-board-faces-anesthesia-complaint/ A political appointee on the Florida Board of Medicine failed to ensure that a surgical office in Ocala complied with a state regulation on anesthesia, according to a complaint. The Florida Department of Health — which the medical board is a part of — filed the complaint earlier this summer against Ravi Chandra, a vascular surgeon who is a member of the board that regulates and disciplines doctors. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed him to the 15-member group last year. In July 2021, a “routine inspection” found that paramedics were “providing anesthesia care” at a surgical office in Ocala, violating a state rule that says a qualified anesthesia provider, such as an anesthesiologist, must assist a surgeon, according to the five-page complaint. Chandra was the “designated physician” at the office, Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgical Associates, meaning he was responsible for its compliance with state health and safety regulations, the complaint says. A vascular surgeon specializes in treating problems with arteries and veins. In July, the department asked the Florida Board of Medicine to penalize Chandra, and sanctions could range from a fine to license revocation. Chandra, 65, didn’t respond to an email and messages left at his office seeking comment.The governor’s office referred a request for comment to the Florida Department of Health. The department declined to comment. In an email, board chair David Diamond said it is “not appropriate for me to comment on pending matters” before the board. (more at above url)