Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(02-16-2021, 09:59 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Given Florida's high population of retired folk, along with their very diverse community that includes huge population swaths of people most susceptible to the disease, Florida looks like a model compared to NYC. 

If you remove context, sure.

If you don’t, then you look at the fact that NY was the first to be hit and it was hit hard. From March to the end of May, as the nations struggled with a lack of supplies and understanding of how to respond to, they experienced 24k deaths, mostly from NYC. In the same time, Fl saw 2.5k deaths.

Since then, NY adopted best practices and has had 20k deaths while Fl has had 26.5k deaths, primarily coming from the Summer months where most state saw a decline.

By no means does Florida act as a model, even relative to NY.