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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/ron-desantis-coronavirus-florida-new-york-trump.htmlFollowing Trumps lead, Gov. Ron DeSantis refused to shut down the state. Now hes scapegoating New Yorkers for surging infections.
So why is DeSantis refusing to compel all Floridians to stay home? From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, DeSantis has adopted whatever policies seem to mollify Donald Trump. That is no surprise. During the 2018 Florida gubernatorial primary, Trump endorsed DeSantis, effectively clinching the nomination for the previously obscure congressman. In return, Trump expects DeSantis to ensure that hell win Florida in the 2020 presidential election. But the governor has reportedly done little to help Trump, neglecting the states Republican infrastructure necessary to churn out GOP voters while paying insufficient fealty to the president. On March 5, Politico reported that the bad blood between the two men might soon spill out into the open.
It has notprobably because in the intervening weeks, DeSantis has adopted Trumps disastrously negligent, hands-off approach to the virus.
Trump has richly rewarded DeSantis for toeing the White Houses line. The president showered DeSantis with praise at a Saturday press briefing, declaring: Hes a very talented guy. Hes a very good governor. Everyone loves him. Hes doing a fantastic job for Florida. The federal government has also given Florida adequate medical supplies from the national stockpile while denying them to states with Democratic governors. According to the Washington Post, for instance, Maine asked for a half-million N95 masks and received about 5 percent of what it requested. Florida, by contrast, requested 430,000 surgical masks, 180,000 N95 respirators, 82,000 face shields, and 238,000 glovesand received it all within three days.
And yet, despite doing everything Trump could ask for, DeSantis has failed miserably to contain COVID-19. The state still isnt testing nearly enough people, allowing the virus to spread silently while county officials implement public health measures that Desantis rejects. In the Miami region, infections may soon reach New York City levels, straining hospital capacity and forcing doctors to ration scarce equipment like ventilators. DeSantis has responded to this emerging catastrophe by looking the other way and continually targeting New Yorkers. In addition to the interstate checkpoints, the governor has stationed members of the National Guard at Floridas airports, where troops screen travelers from the New York region and direct them to self-quarantine for two weeks. After all the hard work, DeSantis explained, we dont want it to now get seeded as people flee the hot zone. His spokeswoman decried New Yorkers visiting Florida, accusing them of carrying the virus into Florida, unwittingly or not.
Randy Fine, a Republican state representative and DeSantis ally, was even more explicit in maligning New Yorkers. Seems like some of our friends from New York are trying very hard to make us like New York, Fine said on Monday. We dont know how many people those criminals spread the virus to here.
It has notprobably because in the intervening weeks, DeSantis has adopted Trumps disastrously negligent, hands-off approach to the virus.
Trump has richly rewarded DeSantis for toeing the White Houses line. The president showered DeSantis with praise at a Saturday press briefing, declaring: Hes a very talented guy. Hes a very good governor. Everyone loves him. Hes doing a fantastic job for Florida. The federal government has also given Florida adequate medical supplies from the national stockpile while denying them to states with Democratic governors. According to the Washington Post, for instance, Maine asked for a half-million N95 masks and received about 5 percent of what it requested. Florida, by contrast, requested 430,000 surgical masks, 180,000 N95 respirators, 82,000 face shields, and 238,000 glovesand received it all within three days.
And yet, despite doing everything Trump could ask for, DeSantis has failed miserably to contain COVID-19. The state still isnt testing nearly enough people, allowing the virus to spread silently while county officials implement public health measures that Desantis rejects. In the Miami region, infections may soon reach New York City levels, straining hospital capacity and forcing doctors to ration scarce equipment like ventilators. DeSantis has responded to this emerging catastrophe by looking the other way and continually targeting New Yorkers. In addition to the interstate checkpoints, the governor has stationed members of the National Guard at Floridas airports, where troops screen travelers from the New York region and direct them to self-quarantine for two weeks. After all the hard work, DeSantis explained, we dont want it to now get seeded as people flee the hot zone. His spokeswoman decried New Yorkers visiting Florida, accusing them of carrying the virus into Florida, unwittingly or not.
Randy Fine, a Republican state representative and DeSantis ally, was even more explicit in maligning New Yorkers. Seems like some of our friends from New York are trying very hard to make us like New York, Fine said on Monday. We dont know how many people those criminals spread the virus to here.
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Florida Is Facing a Coronavirus Catastrophe (Original Post)
steve2470
Mar 2020
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(120,004 posts)1. It isn't that "despite doing everything Trump could ask for,
DeSantis has failed miserably to contain COVID-19," it's because DeSatan did everything Trump could ask for that he failed miserably to contain COVID-19.
steve2470
(37,461 posts)2. exactly! nt
LastDemocratInSC
(3,816 posts)3. Would he call all the spring break people criminals?
Note the final sentence in the final paragraph.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)4. I seem to remember
him welcoming a certain New Yorker with open arms last year.
FarPoint
(13,520 posts)5. What Florida received....
Probably not enough N95 Masks for what they will experience...I'm all for protecting any first responder...so, I'll let it go...but the politicizing of supplies is an abomination....
I sense the mentally disabled, handicapped and elderly will be " triaged" and not given more than oxygen if they have it....Things are about to change in Florida...