Idiot Ron DeSantis asked if people ever sought testing to see if they were sick before covid.

[Doodley]

"Now think about it," DeSantis said Friday. "Before COVID did anyone go out and seek testing to determine if they were sick? It's usually you feel like you're sick and you get tested to determine what you maybe have come down with."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/florida-gov-ron-desantis-asked-if-people-ever-sought-testing-to-see-if-they-were-sick-before-the-coronavirus-pandemic-think-about-it/ar-AASzlIk?ocid=msedgntp

[Phoenix61]

1. What a maroon. nt

[milestogo]

2. Mammograms, pap smears, cholesterol screenings, colonoscopies, all kinds of vaccinations

[EarlG]

3. GOP logic

“When there wasn’t a pandemic, did people act as if there was a pandemic? Of course not! So why should we act like there’s a pandemic now there’s a pandemic?”

[lapucelle]

4. He's clueless. N/T

[Hekate]

5. AIDS

[multigraincracker]

6. About 5 years ago I went to the ER

with convulsions, fever and body aches. Test indicated an unknown virus.

[malaise]

7. How did his wife discover that she had cancer? N/t

[Skittles]

8. I didn't choose to have a hose up my ass three times for fun

(NOT judging those of you who do, LOL)

gawd it's like DeSantis is trying to out-Trump Trump in the fucking moron department

[haele]

9. Yes - they test at Urgent Care when you went in for serious flu symptoms.

High fever, especially. We all had fevers that spiked around 102/103.
Back in late Dec, 2019, early Jan 2020, we all came down with a nasty unknown bug; mine felt almost as bad as the walking pneumonia I had when I was 15.
They tested for strep, pneumonia, and a range of known influenzas whenever one of us came in. They didn't know what we had other than "some weird virus" that was going around.

March 2020, Laz started getting weird neurological seizures and blood clotting, which we have just started to get under control with meds and therapies. These seizures had no apparent cause, and still have never showed up on MRIs or CAT scans.
Long COVID? We suspect, but don't know.

But yes, we have always been tested when we thought we were sick enough to go to the doctor.

Haele

[Oneironaut]

10. I may be hopelessly cynical, but I don't think he's that stupid. He's just completely full of shit.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yes, he is lying out his ass. Reckless disregard for human life.

[Grammy23]

11. Has he or one of his kids never been tested for strep?

How did Casey, his wife, find out she had breast cancer. Oh, yea. A mammogram.

Ass hat. He can’t be that clueless, can he?

Even more to the point, what do people think when he says something so asinine? The follow up questions write themselves.

[Irish_Dem]

12. People get routine blood work all the time.

This testing is done to see if someone is sick.

[Vinca]

14. DeSantis should get a pre-emptive EEG to see if he's got anything wrong with his brain.