Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(02-18-2021, 08:06 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

The right started rewriting the history of the early days of the pandemic before Trump left office.  No amount of reading or facts will change their perceptions that Trump didn't do anything "too" wrong and that it is on the (insert derogatory descriptive adjectives here) liberals and blue states for everything else.


I mean it was quite a while before they learned that the use of ventilators wasn't the best method.  

But you and Pat and the others are right:  Florida and many other places had the advantage of learning from other state's mistakes.  I'd propose that if Florida had followed better shut down rules they would have had much better results simply because they already had learned how to treat the disease better by the time it got there.

Add in that when people went to the beach they could still social distance vs the streets of NYC.

And more people drive in FL vs using public transportation in NYC.

There really is little compare directly.

Edit to add:

This is a good twitter account to follow right now - https://t.co/0e0yfJIOxQ?amp=1

Follows the news about Coronavirus one year ago today.