Gov. DeSantis Blasts Media over FL Doomsday Coronavirus Predictions: ‘Well Hell …It Hasn’t Happened’
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) blasted the establishment media over its stream of criticisms and dismissal of Florida’s hopeful coronavirus trends, stating bluntly that far too many reporters “waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York” — something that never happened.
“Our data is available. Our data is transparent. In fact, Dr. Birks has talked multiple times about how Florida has the absolute best data,” DeSantis, who stood alongside Vice President Mike Pence, told reporters on Wednesday.
“So any insinuation otherwise is just typical partisan narrative trying to be spun. And part of the reason is that you’ve got a lot of people in your profession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida was going to be just like New York,” he continued, repeating their previous claims.
“‘Wait two weeks. Florida’s going to be next. Just like Italy. Wait two weeks,'” DeSantis said. “Well hell, we’re eight weeks away from that, and it hasn’t happened.”
DeSantis added that Florida has a lower death rate compared to areas around the country, including New York, D.C., Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.
“But even in our region — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia — Florida has the lower death rate, and I was the number one landing spot from tens of thousands of people leaving the number one hot zone in the world to come to my state,” he explained.
“So we’ve succeeded, and I think that people just don’t want to recognize it, because it challenges their narrative. It challenges their assumptions,” he added:
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Establishment media outlets and Democrat politicians blasted DeSantis’s approach to addressing the pandemic in his state from the onset, warning that his refusal to immediately impose far-reaching lockdown orders would lead Florida, which has a large elderly population, to become the next U.S. hotspot, or worse, the next Italy.
DeSantis, however, quickly focused on protecting vulnerable individuals in nursing homes, almost immediately limiting those who could enter the facilities as blue states, like Pennsylvania, directed facilities to accept patients who tested positive for the virus. Since then, nearly 70 percent of coronavirus deaths in the Keystone State have been connected to nursing homes.
While DeSantis eventually issued a stay-at-home order, he largely laid the groundwork, relying on localities to enforce orders tailored specifically to their areas. He also focused on screening individuals hailing from coronavirus hotspots, installing checkpoints on major roads and implementing screenings at several Florida airports.
Florida, with a population of over 21 million, reported 47,471 positive cases of the virus and 2,096 related fatalities, as of Wednesday afternoon.
Florida hospitals, DeSantis has noted, never reached capacity, nor did they experience a shortage of ventilators.
The Sunshine State is currently in the first phase of the reopening process, with retailers, restaurants, and gyms operating at limited capacities.
Give them hell Ron!!! And Good morning room 235...
ReplyDeleteLooks like it rain enough to stop me from cutting my wheat field today...
ReplyDeleteDamn the bad luck...😎
ReplyDeleteOne thing for sure it isn't going any where...
ReplyDeleteContrast Florida with Michigan.
ReplyDeleteIt's as if there is two different versions of our great country. Take charge, we can do this v we want the federal government to solve our problems while we vilify the President.
YEP...
ReplyDeleteCuomo of New York mass murderer extraordinaire. Killer of the elderly and darling of the MSM. DeSantis savior of the elderly and despised by the MSM. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteI can't figure any of this Mess out anymore , I am seeing a revolt coming soon. Stay Tuned...
ReplyDeleteBeat me to it, Tom.
ReplyDeleteFlorida and NY comparisons need to be made.
NY does have NYC, but Florida has a more vulnerable population. And had to take the people fleeing NYC. Cruiseships too.
DeSantis did so well, he put his state in position to take sports teams away from Cali for the year.... Lol
Rather than Parrot Cuomo and his dumb uncaring over ordering ass, the MSM should give an honest look at Florida. Our at least revisit the policy Cuoma had that intentionally killed old folks by not allowing them in hospitals.
Outstanding job governor DeSantis.
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As far as that bitch in Michigan?
ReplyDeleteI hope the investigation shows she ignored the ongoing issues since 2018 at the hydro dam in Midland.
Doesn't seem that hard to order the water level dropped at a dam that didn't have a permit to generate electricity anyhow.
On the surface, this women worried about the flu and refused to acknowledge the potential loss of property by letting cities drown?
Yea, that's a dirty look. Especially when you go out of your way to oppress free people and slight the greatest president this country has seen in quite some time.
VP? Not so much. But I guess when your are running a Dementia laiden pedophile as your candidate in Biden? Who knows...
Gonna add one more thing....
ReplyDeleteBe careful knocking evangelicals and those that worship and respect out creator.
Opening churches, and safely allowing worship is fundamental to this country.
Our rights laid out in the Bill of rights/Constitution aren't given to us by government. They aren't just established by man. They are God-given rights, that can never be revoked.
But, if you refuse to acknowledge our creator, and those that worship????
Be careful. Oftentimes people ignore Amd forget Paine, Moore, etc...
Later peeps.
Stay dry.
You did Good Hammer....
ReplyDeleteIn other news, Planned Parenthood requested and got $80,000,000 from the money that was supposed to go to support small businesses! At least now many in government are screaming for them to give it back. To top it off, Planned Parenthood spent $40,000,000 on ads supporting Biden for President! They survive on taxpayer money granted to them, in addition to making millions off of the abortions they preform. Planned Parenthood is one of, if not the largest supporter of the Democratic Party! Nope. Nothing to see here! Carry on!
ReplyDeleteThe numbers are still being calculated but at least 4,300 Corona patients were sent to nursing homes in NY.
ReplyDeleteMass murderer indeed...
When I was a young man the Government thought of me as expendable, but I got news for them now I am OLD But not expendable. Just saying...
ReplyDeleteGood Grief Man get out of the rain, whats the matter with you.?
ReplyDeleteSays Dr Unknown... Knows nothing but thinks he knows all...
ReplyDeleteOut here where I live we have an interesting study in contrast. Where my daughter lives, in a suburb of LA they are practicing all the crazy virus stuff. Won't leave the house without masks and gloves. And mostly don't leave the house. Son-in-law hasn't left more than a couple times in two months. Grandson same thing. But the city is under total lockdown, everybody is crazy afraid. And the virus is spreading like crazy anyway.
ReplyDeleteUp where I live, we're over it. If you go to the store, maybe 20% of the people wear masks. People get together in their houses. Nobody cares. Restaurants have been opening up for a couple weeks. Looks like business as usual up here. And we have zero cases here in our total area population of aprox 22,000.
So my point is, if the crazy over the top protection crap is what keeps the virus from spreading, why is LA a giant incubator with people dropping like flies, and the valley where I live still holding zero cases. We are barely practicing any of the hyperbolic protection crap and always have barely practiced it from the start. To believe the commie left, we should be drowning in the virus.
Guess there's more to this than meets the eye, huh?
Unknown stay in your basement, some of us have grilling and beer drinking to do...
DeleteUnknown stay in your basement, some of us have grilling and beer drinking to do don't preach to us, we don't care what you say !Got it Good.
ReplyDeleteDOJ: There Is No Pandemic Exception to the U.S. Constitution
What would make you think anyone here would go to a link from you?
ReplyDeleteJoe Biden to black radio host during tense and awkward interview: 'You ain't black' if you don't vote for me
ReplyDeleteFormer Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told radio host Charlamagne tha God that there shouldn't be a question of which presidential candidate gets the black vote. Good Grief..
Umm... What's That, Joe?
ReplyDeleteThe term "the soft bigotry of low expectations" is a brilliant explanation of how many assumptions made by the Left are as racist as they'd like to claim the other side are.
For example, if you believe that all people of a certain ethnic group ought to vote a particular way, or think a particular way, or act a particular way, then you're really still putting them in boxes based off their race, even if your intentions are good.
Which is what makes this Joe Biden quote so bizarre. At the very end of an interview with the Breakfast Club, an influential black radio show hosted by Charlamagne that God, he tried to correct the host by saying "you ain't black" if you don't know to vote for him over President Trump.
It's a funny moment, but it's also really very telling of just how the Left thinks about minorities: a massive voting block that had better vote for them... or else... He Biden keeps adding shit to his shoes, stop stepping Joe
BREAKING NEWS... Dr. BIRX, the Scarf Queen just announced that Corona virus related hospitalizations have dropped dramatically in the last 30 days.
ReplyDeleteThe blue state governors are rapidly running out of excuses to keep their citizens locked down...
Watching her now, with her 30 slides..
ReplyDeleteDon't expect it to happen in Illinois anytime soon though.
ReplyDeleteThe governor is now calling for jail time for business owners who violate his shut down orders.
Sounds pretty communistic to me...
Biden's other mess, he says he has been in politics for 40 years and I am the only one that can beat Joe Biden. hahahhahahaah you can't make this shit up, he is a gift that keeps on giving.
ReplyDeleteYup like always the day you were born you started to die, That's Life Lol
ReplyDeleteLove this.
ReplyDeletePresident continues to give away his salary. This time, his quarterly salary went to HHS to fight Sars-cov2.
Giving more money in this fight than most if not all politicians.
Another reason he'll be re-elected.
MAGA2020
Amen!!
ReplyDeleteYou all know about the civil war, Well do you know how close we are to that today? It if it happens won't be that long but may be as deadly. We are in a time that no one knows the out come, we are as divided now as back then, Think about it, God have Mercy on us if that happens. Be prepared.
ReplyDeleteAmen!!!
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ReplyDeleteKinda interesting link here.
Apparently, the meme culture that started the "boogaloo" memes has upset the alphabet bois.
The ATF is concerned with folks who demonstrate their 2A rights. Warning officers about "the Boogaloo" 🙄 who arms himself with multiple weapon platforms, train on weekends after working all week, and embrace the coming "civil war" 🤔. They are to be identified by "Hawaiian shirts" 🙄 and other gear that resembles para-military surplus camo. Lmao!!! 😂😂😂😀😀😀
Guys, you see me post about the great meme war of 2016,and the meme war ongoing now. Here is your proof. The ATF panicking, because memes that were posted about the possible confiscation in Virginia.
It scared the shit out of them.
And millions of people contributed to it, excersing their 1A, 2A freedoms. It's interesting how social media can used against them.
Meme away lads, meme away!
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Good night all you God loving people. MAGA 2020..
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