The incredibly successful Republican anti-vaxx propaganda campaign
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Nihilist Donald Trump tribute band Ron DeSantis is complaining that he’s not getting enough credit that Florida’s COVID rates have finally gone down, which is like someone stealing the catalytic converter from your car and demanding credit for your monthly gas expenses going down:
It was a bad summer in Florida.
Nearly 1.2 million residents of the Sunshine State contracted the coronavirus over those three months, nearly a third of the total the state has seen since the pandemic began in February 2020. More than 13,000 Floridians died as the virus whipped across the state, more than 17 percent of the deaths the country saw during that period despite Florida having only 6.5 percent of the country’s population. The good news is that the surge has abated. And for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), that somehow means that it’s time to boast about what a good job the state has done.
“We’ve seen huge declines,” DeSantis said at a news conference Thursday. “Right now, Florida has the lowest covid-infection rate — case rate and infection rate of covidestim — in the country.”
Obviously “right now” is doing a lot of work there. Over the course of the pandemic, Florida’s case rates have been worse than the country’s 57 percent of the time. Its rate of population-adjusted deaths has been higher 63 percent of the time. Since Florida began reporting hospitalization data, its hospitalization rates have been higher on 72 percent of days.
Heckuva job! Bump points us to this data about the anti-vaxx turn of Tucker Nation:
Between the time Ron DeSantis last declared how his "leadership" had defeated COVID-19 in March, and the bit pat on the back he gave himself this morning, more Floridians were killed by COVID-19 than by all hurricanes in recorded history.— Mark Sumner (@Devilstower) October 28, 2021