Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

[Belsnickel]

(02-17-2021, 11:08 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Pat, just because people say things multiple times, does not make them true.  When you compare NY and Fla over the duration of the Covid-19 ordeal, they are both large populous States that took polar opposite approaches in how they dealt with it.  Despite their vastly different approaches, their results are much closer than some are willing to accept.  It doesn't make one approach right or wrong, it does point to the notion that some of the precautionary measures instituted by one group may not have been as effective as initially thought.  

Everyone likes to say "follow the Science", well we have a perfect comparison study model, right here in the US.  I'd say that as of now, it's looking like States who instituted maximum precautions are looking about equal to the State that took none.

Him saying it multiple times doesn't make it true. The facts are what they are. Before the pandemic reached Florida in a serious way and before our federal government took the pandemic seriously (because they wanted to put their heads in the sane) New York had already been battling the pandemic for months with no guidance, no federal assistance, and no groundwork laid out before them. By the time the pandemic reached the rest of the country outside of New York and the west coast, lessons had been learned about treatment and preventative measures. That means that New York is in no way a "perfect comparison study model" for this situation because they have been dealing with the disease longer and were left on their own because of a petty administration.

Those are the facts of the situation. It isn't just something that Pat is saying. These are the things that actually happened. Ignoring them multiple times doesn't change the facts.