Ron DeSantis (R) - Country Hungry for New Blood

[Lurch]

COVID isn't real, I can't even imagine why we're having this conversation. Just open everything up, get everyone to herd immunity (less than .03% of people die when they get this 'seasonal cold') and lets get back to work!

Florida has a great track record of leading the nation in the right direction. I can't imagine why every state shouldn't follow them now.

The only possible chance of getting ahead of mutating variants is to have everyone remaining to be infected to be so at essentially the same time. And even then, surviving virus can still hang about, causing a slow burn of infection if there's not full immunity among a vast majority. And that can eventually lead to a variant that defeats the gains won at already high cost. Putting everyone back at square one.

With killer viruses, the only sure cure is to eradicate them, to at least a sufficient degree, anyway. Who wants Covid to be a perennial bug like the cold and flu, but deadlier?

 

[PhantomWolf]

There's only one amendment that counts, and that's the Holy Second.

In Florida, using the 2nd Amendment solution might actually be considered self-defense.

 

[PhantomWolf]

Who wants Covid to be a perennial bug like the cold and flu, but deadlier?

Apparently, a lot of the "We are just going to have to live with it" idiots.

In worse news, it is being said in news channels that there is evidence that the new Lambda variant might not respond to vaccination at all. Yay!

 

[Roger Ramjets]

In Florida, using the 2nd Amendment solution might actually be considered self-defense.

Just wait until the next mutation, which spreads through bites and makes the infected desperately hungry for human flesh - and the only way to stop them is a head shot.

 

[sackett]

It would set a horrid precedent, however. Think of what a Trump could do under the excuse of "urgent action".

The precedent would be federal intervention to halt the acts of an insane prigk infesting a governor's office.

Howsomever, I see your point, and I think it's a good one. Executive action would have to hedged about with laws to establish criteria for intervention, and of course time limits.

I may sound like "Action this day!" but that's not at all what I mean. The Constitution comes before everything.

Because that's all we've ******* got.

 

[TragicMonkey]

And that's why the situation in Florida is so pressing. If an entire state becomes a superspreader site, isn't federal action justified? Urgent action, as in a quarantine with closed borders and an air and sea blockade, mandatory masking, school shutdowns, and curfews.

I'm not a big-city fancy geographist, but it seems to me that building a wall against Florida would be a lot easier than one against Mexico.

Or we could actually do the Bugs Bunny sawing-off thing for real.

 

[gabeygoat]

The Bolsinero of Florida

 

[Norman Alexander]

LOL triggered libs. Show me in the Constitution where we're Governors aren't allowed to intentionally kill off their citizens. I demand a civil debate about that.

Proposed: That this House kill off 300 people per day using a pandemic disease in order to keep businesses open in Florida.

Can I hear voices for the affirmative?

 

[catsmate]

When there was a global pandemic involving a highly communicable, deadly, disease whose spread could be greatly reduced by wearing masks in public spaces.

I mean, if we in the West could always wear masks whenever we had a respiratory infection and/or stayed at home while we did then we'd also have much lower death tolls from influenza and vastly fewer people sick with common colds.

Just wait until the next mutation, which spreads through bites and makes the infected desperately hungry for human flesh - and the only way to stop them is a head shot.

[OT-ish] I see Green Monkey Disease is back.

 

[plague311]

Florida is requesting 300 ventilators from the Federal Government since the cases won't stop rising.

As a result of the increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, the state of Florida requested 300 ventilators from the federal government, according to a Department of Health and Human Services planning document obtained by ABC News.

Something that won't shock a lot of people is that the younger generation seem to be getting hit harder with the Delta variant:

Jackson Health System in Miami-Dade is reporting 363 patients across their hospitals. Only 37 of them are vaccinated — of those, 24 are Miami Transplant Institute patients.

Across Jackson hospitals, they have five pediatric patients, with two in ICUs. At Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, there are 24 COVID patients ranging from babies to 18-year-olds. Seven of those patients are in the ICU.

The article also details how burnt out the nurses and doctors are at this point. I can't imagine caring for someone who is so anti-science and medicine until they need you to fix the problem.

Sad thing is, for some of them, there's no coming back.

 

[dudalb]

Someone suggested the name GOvernor Dracula. It fits.

 

[Segnosaur]

From: The Hill
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has slipped behind a Democratic gubernatorial rival in a new poll as he faces scrutiny over his handling of the pandemi...45 percent of voters said they would vote for Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist (Fla.)...while 44 percent said they would back DeSantis.

Seems like not even a majority of Floridians are interested in the "blood of DeSantis" . (Granted its still within the margin of error, but given that the Covid situation isn't getting any better, I can't see things turning around for him any time soon.)

 

[Stacyhs]

From: The Hill
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has slipped behind a Democratic gubernatorial rival in a new poll as he faces scrutiny over his handling of the pandemi...45 percent of voters said they would vote for Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist (Fla.)...while 44 percent said they would back DeSantis.

Seems like not even a majority of Floridians are interested in the "blood of DeSantis" . (Granted its still within the margin of error, but given that the Covid situation isn't getting any better, I can't see things turning around for him any time soon.)

I'd love to see FL go blue in 2022.

 

[sackett]

Gov. DeSanguine says he don't know nuffen bout no venulators, he gone check it out.

But if somebody in Florida really is asking for them, this is no time for Biden to play politics. Nossir.

Of course the federal official who releases them can -- and perhaps should -- stipulate changes in Florida practices to ensure that the equipment is optimally employed: strict quarantines, mandatory masking, curfews, accelerated vaccinations, school/theatre/restaurant/saloon closures, etc. Nothing drastic.

Arrests can come later.

 

[Stacyhs]

Broward County School Board is defying DeSantis' no mask ban. Good for them.

 

[dudalb]

That new poll should be worrying to De Santis..means he is losing the vital swing vote.
yes, he will never fall below 40% support....any GOP OR Dem candidate will get that out of pure party loyalty..but it the 10% who don't feel much loyalty to either party thet decise elections.
( I know the numbers are just symbolic, but I think my basic point stands.

 

[Stacyhs]

Florida had the largest amount of pediatric hospitalizations in the country with 315 last week. These aren't kids who feel like they have a cold or a slight flu; these kids are sick enough to be in the hospital. But schools can't say kids have to wear masks because of "freedoms" according to DeSantis and other idiots.

 

[The Don]

Gov. DeSanguine says he don't know nuffen bout no venulators, he gone check it out.

But if somebody in Florida really is asking for them, this is no time for Biden to play politics. Nossir.

[FOXNews]

What is happening in Florida right now is a clear indication that "Sleepy" Joe Biden is snoozing through the Covid pandemic and has squandered the position than President Trump left him with - a Trump vaccine effective at controlling the China Virus and a falling infection rate.

Shame on him for failing to support Ron DeSantis and for turning the suffering of Floridians into a political football.

[/FOXNews]

 

[timhau]

He just escalated the war on masks threateing to stop the salaries of public officials who defy his ban on masks.
It is incredible..we have the governor of a major state who thinks defying science and modern medicine is the road to the White House. Scary thing he might be right.
he is also behaving like a petty tyrant, but that is standard for the GOP nowdays.

Ron DeSantis (R) - Country Hungry for New Phleghm.

 

[Ethan Thane Athen]

I have 3 friends who did the jabs, ages 94, 90, 89 and they could likely be in a bad way by now, BUT, they all take Grape Seed Extract and have good strong immune systems. And those folks in FL are NOT taking much in the way antioxidants, I'd Bet....so the jab is getting them weaker, not stronger.

So they had the vaccine and are all ok but that's not because of the vaccine but the grape seed extract they take, in fact the vaccine is dangerous but the grape seed extract protected them from it and from Covid? Is that really what you're saying?

Isn't the simplest explanation that the vaccine is not harmful and protects them from Covid? That's what it's designed for...