Anti-Mask Merch Salesman Ron DeSantis Wonders How Masks Became Political

[Zorro]

“I don’t know why the masks have politics around it,” said the governor who has made a name for himself by railing against mask rules.

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who sells anti-mask merchandise on his campaign website, now wonders why masks have become so political.

Despite the spiking COVID-19 death toll in his state, which has been hardest hit by the Delta variant, DeSantis issued an executive order this summer blocking local schools from implementing mask mandates to combat the virus spread.

A Florida judge on Wednesday, however, ruled against DeSantis and allowed schools to mandate masks without a parent opt-out while the governor appeals to a higher court. The same judge initially ruled last month that DeSantis did not have the authority to ban the mandates.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, the pro-Trump governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate suggested he was perplexed by how masks had become such a political hot button.

“Since I’ve been governor, I think any issue that has politics—and I don’t know why the masks have politics around it,” declared DeSantis, who has repeatedly mocked mask guidances. “Let the parent make the decision that’s best for their kids. If you want the masks, do it, if you don’t, don’t—that’s fine."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-anti-mask-merch-salesman-wonders-how-masks-became-political

DeSantis is quite the disingenuous POS, isn't he? How cute. Not.

[Grokenstein]

1. How could this come to be, cries asshole who made it happen.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. "And let parents make the decision about what grades are best for their kids, too

If you want them to get straight-A's, just let the school know, and they'll take of that for the infinitely-wise parents!"



^^^ that is equally f***ing stupid.

By the way, who here thinks that kids are going to school and wearing masks as their parents told them to do ... when there's no mandate, no enforcement, and most other kids are hence not wearing them?

Newsflash: if the school isn't deciding, then the children are deciding.

[Tanuki]

3. He knows as well as we do how mask wearing became politically divisive.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/trump-mocks-politically-correct-wearing-mask-2020-5%3famp


"Trump mocks reporter for being 'politically correct' by wearing a face mask outside

May 26, 2020, 6:00 PM"....