Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

[Belsnickel]

(08-30-2021, 12:52 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: As of last week, over the previous 14 days Louisana was worse than Florida in every single category.  The reason I referenced it was because of my earlier post that was seemingly avoided.  This thread ramped back up and I simply asked why no one was talking about Louisiana.  No one responded other than Nately.

Fwiw, as far totals from the beginning, you can pull the death rates (per 100k) since the start of the pandemic from that same link.  You just have to switch from 7 days to January 1st 2020, and from "map" to "graph" to get the numbers:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_deathsper100k

1.) New York
2.) New Jersey
3.) Mississppi
4.) Lousiana
5.) Massachusetts
6.) Rhode Island
7.) Arizona
8.) Alabama
9.) Conneticut
10.) South Dakota
11.) Arkansas
12.) Pennsylvania
13.) Michigan
14.) New Mexico
15.) Indiana
16.) Georgia
17.) Illinois
18.) Nevada
19.) North Dakota
20.) Florida

I find this suprising.  Here's why...

-Florida is #2 is domestic tourism
-Florida is #2 is international tourism
-Florida is #1 in overall tourism
-No state has been more open during the pandemic
-Florida has 8 of the 10 biggest theme parks in America. (Think a Sturgis rally going on the entire summer in 8 different locations)
-Florida is the 13th most densely populated state
-Florida has numerous big cities.  I can't find the number, but I think it's 5 in the top 50.  Outisde of California and Texas, I'm not sure there's another state that sees the same population density in this amount of different places.
-Florida is the 7th oldest (median age) state in the country.

So just to recap... BIG state (3rd largest), TONS of tourism, TONS of attractions and highly visited places, a well above average population density, an older population, all coupled with some of the most disastrous policies and the approach from a Govenor who has blood on his hands from Covid deaths....  That equals 20th in death rate?????  I don't think so.  Something isn't adding up here, and it's not the easily verifiable numbers; it's the disastrous policy and approach part.

If he was nearly as bad as many of you claim they'd be #1, no question.  But they're 20th?  Tell how that is possible.

So, interestingly, I misread and didn't notice you were talking about death rates and instead case rates. Now I am interested in what makes a state like Florida so different in that their case rate is so high, but their death rate is much lower. I'm very curious about this, now.