‘Flori-duh,’ DeSantis in national spotlight for bungling pandemic – By John Pacenti (The Palm Beach Post) / July 26 2020
Florida — long a national running joke since the 2000 presidential election debacle — took hit after hit on Sunday in the national media for the handling of the coronavirus that made it the new epicenter of the pandemic.
Most of the news reports focused on how Florida on Saturday usurped New York in the number of coronavirus cases and now only trails California, a far more more populous state with nearly twice the population.
Gov. Ron DeSantis was also the subject of the Washington Post piece that detailed how he ignored scientists and followed President Trump’s denials of the severity of the outbreak. The bad news for the governor followed the cancellation of the Republican National Convention that he had lobbied to come to Florida.
Then there was the sad story of a 9-year-old who succumbed to COVID-19 even though she had no underlying health issues — negating DeSantis well-worn refrain that children don’t get seriously ill.
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