Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(02-16-2021, 11:25 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: It's a fantastic model, along with the perfect comparison.  You've got NYC executing the authoritarian State, while Florida chose to let the people live how they choose.  Were one States results dramatically better than the other?  Not really, except Florida is dramatically better in terms of deaths per 100K population.

That doesn't really change what I posted. Since June, Florida's deaths have been about 20% higher per 100k, driven by the fact that Florida had 19% more deaths during the summer than the national average (the 5th highest) due to their "let people live how they choose" attitude.

Any argument that their results have been about the same is predicated on requiring that we take into account the initial national outbreak that occurred in NYC while ignoring any sort of context that looks at how drastically different New York has fared after those first two months as the nation was able to produce more critical supplies, better treatments were found, and the population began to take social distancing seriously. 

Things that, as I've said here and have said for months, Florida could have chosen to do but opted not to. DeSantis basically traded 5,200 lives for his policies, or lack there of.