Current headline on Yahoo - Why Florida Has Americas Lowest Covid Rate
 

I can't take a screen shot for some reason, but that's the headline this morning on Yahoo.

I figured some folks here (1) would want to know, and (2) wouldn't know based on where they get their news.

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"During the past two months, however, Florida’s daily average has plummeted by more than 90 percent, to about 1,700 cases, or eight for every 100,000 residents. That’s roughly half of California’s current COVID rate and less than a quarter of Vermont’s."

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Florida COVID Cases Among Lowest in Country Two Months After Record High Surge. https://www.newsweek.com/florida-cov...-surge-1639985

Again posting a half truth
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of course, when florida’s numbers were high, that was a sign that desantis was incompetent, and the same people who said so, will obviously not say desantis gets any credit for the decrease.

which is why guy can’t judge someone in a couple
of months, even if those months really help make the political
point you’re trying to make.

i also saw that there have been the usual number of white cops shootings unarmed blacks in 2021, but for some reason the media and al sharpton aren’t screaming about systemic racism every time
it happens. by an amazing coincidence, people stopped caring about those things the same day that Biden was inaugurated. just a coincidence.
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Did you bother to read the article?
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Funny Jim in the same article

Like everything else about America’s COVID ordeal, the state’s declining infection numbers are being turned into political talking points. Conservatives on Twitter and Fox News now claim that Florida’s turnaround vindicates the hands-off policies of Republican Gov. (and likely 2024 presidential hopeful) Ron DeSantis,

And they’ve done it without mask or vaccine mandates,” added conservative radio host Clay Travis. “This is why Ron DeSantis terrifies the coronabros. Because all their shutdowns & mandates, which destroy freedoms, provide no benefits.”



You like most conservatives are desperate to show a cause and effect that doesn’t exist ..
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of course, written by a liberal hack. the author gave all the reasons why desantis deserves no credit for the drop, because these things are cyclical. but if that’s true, it’s also necessarily true that desantis deserves no blame for the summer spike

the left, as always, wants it both ways. when the numbers are bad, desantis is at fault. when the numbers improve, he gets no credit.

does that make sense to you, spence?

desantis didn’t keep
numbers down, except that the state did a good job with their many seniors ( guy know, not forcing nursing homes to admit sick people). what desantis did, is show that there may very well be no benefit at all, to the brutal business lockdowns and disastrous school closures.
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Does he ever?
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Just hold your hands over your ears and scream:huh:

If you infect enough people to reach herd immunity your covid rate will drop, and who cares about the 40 thousand more deaths, never mind the excess deaths that are currently uncounted.

California cases 12,376 per 100K

Vermont cases 6262 per 100K

Floriduh cases 16,954 per 100K

California deaths 182 per 100K

Vermont deaths 57 per 100K

Floriduh deaths 274 per 100K

but you all claimed the cause and effect t did exist, when florida’s numbers were bad. that was my point. but now that the numbers are awesome, you say there’s no relationship between desantis and his numbers

wayne his state has been much more open than many other states, and his death rates are better than in many states that had strict lockdowns. that’s called “winning”.
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The cause and effect did exist and still does.

But life only counts prior to birth for you.

"The cause and effect did exist and still does"

Which means you give Desantis credit for the plummeting covid numbers in Florida.

"But life only counts prior to birth for you"

A very common, desperate attack from liberals. Except the data clearly shows that conservatives are as likely ( slightly more likely, to be more accurate) to donate time and money to charity, than liberals. How on Earth do you reconcile that, with your desperate wish to paint conservatives as callous?

I read every word. It proved my point, that for political reasons, you will all say Desantis is responsible when Floridas numbers go up, but none if you have sh*t to say when Floridas numbers are the best in the nation.

Now, if theres a reason for that double standard other than partisan politics, well, we're all ears.

That would be the data from One study and consumption philanthropy is quite different than a food bank or homeless shelter. It works like this:

Nike's Phil Knight gave $1.6 billion to his foundation in 2018
*$1.26B was tax deductible
*Made up 2.8% of his net worth
*Used donation to push U of Oregon to cut ties with sweatshop monitoring group

As long as you’re willing to give DeathSantis credit for 40,000 unnecessary deaths

Meanwhile the tweet from Phil Scott

The data is clear: vaccines work. Throughout the Delta wave, the most vaccinated states have seen significantly fewer hospitalizations and fatalities. VT has stood out even among the most vaccinated places. Thousands of Vermonters get vaccinated every week. Join them.

The tweet from DeathSantis

1. Your livelihood should not be dependent upon whether you get a COVID shot. This is a personal decision.
2. The Biden Vaccine Mandate is unconstitutional, and we have a responsibility to fight back as a state.
3. Vaccine mandates are bad for the economy.
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You were all proud of you headline !

What happened?"
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One shady guy, Phil Knight, skews the whole data set. Gotcha.

Pete, what's your evidence that conservatives stop caring when the baby is born?

And there is a huge difference between being opposed to the vaccine, and being opposed to being forced to take a vaccine. Those are two very different things, even if you can't distinguish them.

Wayne, can you agree that Desantis is equally responsible for the good months his state has, as the bad months? Or is he only responsible for the bad months?

By that measure, if he’d succeeded in killing everyone he’d be perfect.
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how the hell did you arrive at that?

i didn’t say he gets praise for the bad days. i said, since you all seemed to clearly think he was responsible for the bad days this summer, why isn’t he equally responsible for the great results now? according to your logic, he gets blame
for the bad days but no credit for the good days. how does that make sense?

you are impossible to have a rational conversation with.

you can’t talk to someone who thinks paternity leave is the answer to urban fatherlessness.
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Oh, nobody else would do that. K

My evidence that conservatives stop caring is quite similar to yours that liberals are responsible for inner cities.

And there’s a big difference between Scott’s and DeathSantis’ approaches, like 5X as many dead people.
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Pretty simple
His current “good” months are the result of a high level of infection in the bad months resulting in some level of herd immunity.
If everyone had died in the bad months, he would currently have by far the lowest infection rate.
Hurrah
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I didn’t say that paternity leave was the answer, what I said was:
“You’re proof that the Venn diagram of men who are saying paternity leave isn't necessary cause babies don't need their fathers and people who blame all racial disparity in the U.S. on a "lack of black fathers" is a circle.”
Do I need to explain a Venn diagram?
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Didn't he previously argue that the total #s from inception were the most important thing?

"His current “good” months are the result of a high level of infection in the bad months resulting in some level of herd immunity."

and the fact that his bad months were summer, when its too hot to be outside in FL and everyone is stuck inside, had noting whatsoever to do with the summer spike in covid cases.

"If everyone had died in the bad months, he would currently have by far the lowest infection rate."

Well that's not what happened, is it? So we know that's not driving the improvement.

Amazing, you all gave Cuomo a complete free pass for everything, Desantis can't do anything right. That's just a coincidence, not a political tactic.

I did argue that, and I stand by that.

You snowflakes were hyper-focused on short-term numbers. When Floridas numbers were bad, you were all gleefully posting the weekly data. Then all of a sudden - poof! - you all stopped. You all stopped at the same exact time, and by an amazing coincidence, that just happened to be when Floridas numbers got better.

I'm not very impressed by any very short term results, they're too volatile. It was you and your fellow lefties here, who made it clear that weekly results were what mattered. Well unless you were all full of sh*t, these weekly results also matter.

I'm being consistent. You're all flip-flopping.

Let's go, Brandon!

The short term numbers are what you have a chance of controlling a pandemic with.

If you had a mass murderer in a place with a population of 22 million and each day he killed three hundred and fifty of them, would that be alright?
You would be screaming to eliminate civil rights until he was found, just like the Patriot Act.
If Covid was a Muslim all the conservatives would be wearing masks, getting vaccinated and have Covid hunter bumper stickers

ok. so why did you give cuomo a complete pass when he was forcing nursing homes to admit residents who were sick with a disease that we all knew would target the elderly?

and then he fished the numbers

and still, everyone sang his praises, he got a book deal, he got an Emmy.

if short term numbers are important, which is your claim, you should
be happily posting that florida’s numbers are improving. but you aren’t posting that, because you want fodida to have bad numbers so desantis isn’t a political threat to the alzheimer’s patient we have now.

Furthermore, Florida’s numbers were pretty good all along, until this summer. Yet you never posted anything about florida until the cases spiked. how come?
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Classy Guy.

You can look up my comments on Cuomo:

"Cuomo is now only able to attain praise for his actions because his earlier failures made those actions necessary. Of course, part of this is because Donald Trump has bungled the coronavirus response even more badly, so that Cuomo – by not being a complete buffoon – looks like a capable statesman by contrast."

NY did worse at first and learned how to do better so passing NY in deaths by all measures is nothing to be proud of, as to the rest of your rant maybe Scott can fix your spelling and grammar

snowflake guy.

you use the word retarded, you insist there’s nothing wrong with it. but this goes too far.
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Right I did use that word. To mock all you classless Conserv. who always say they are better than Liberals but thought Trump mocking a handicapped reporter was the best thing they ever saw. You yourself just defended Trump a few weeks ago by saying he did the same thing to Rubio or Cruz.

Since you are getting all butthurt again, before people became "developmentally disadvantaged" they were called "retarded" with various classifications like mild, moderate or severe and profound and prior to that the same people were called "feebleminded" and their increasingly severe developmental disabilities were classified as "morons", "imbeciles", and "idiots".

Didn't you write these?

once that imbecile socialist from Queens arrives.

only an idiot thinks the president has everything to do with it. and only an idiot thinks he nothing to do with it.

So a bridge too far is moron (or is it imbecile) but Pussy is ok?

AOC is a moron

donuts on for you to use what is very commonly accepted to be a hateful term to address those with whom you disagree…that’s on. but it’s wrong when anyone else does it.

got it.

as to trump and the reporter, we discussed this multiple times. IF trump
was making fun of the guys handicap, that’s vile. however, there’s actual video evidence of Trump using the same exact physical gestures multiple times over the years, to make fun of people he didn’t like. so there’s a very good chance that’s what he was doing, and had no idea if the guys condition.

that has nothing to do with you being offended by let’s go brandon. paul, once you start acting like a jerk ( and we all have here) you lose your right to then act like you have delicate sensitivities.

can’t have it both ways.

never said trumps
mocking the reporter was the best thing i ever saw. even if teump wasn’t making fun of his condition ( very possible), it’s still a stupid, juvenile, undignified thing to do.

anyway, grow a pair and suck it up, because you’re going to hear let’s go brandon a lot between now and the midterms.
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Yes, but it's really only used today in clinical settings or by people who need to level up. Jim says plenty of offensive things I don't think you need to try and compete.

who exactly said it was the best thing they ever saw?

and you've never once said anything directly disrespectful to anyone here, just because they dare to disagree with you.

If we want to all grow up, let's grow up, but you can't demand it from everyone else and still act like a jerk.

All of us!!!

Still classless. No different from someone saying it about Trump. The difference is there are far more people saying now then would say vile things about Trump.

Yes Pete, I know that word was common before. and before blacks were called "blacks", the were called n*ggers. Like the word "retard", the overwhelming majority of us stay away from words that are obviously hurtful to others. Paul chose not to avoid using those words, and adamantly defended himself, I guess because he has sufficient dislike for those who disagree with him, it's OK for him to use words that 99% of the country would never use, even directed at people they really don't happen to like. Whatever, it's a free country, his choice.

Yes I said those things. I don't know that calling a someone an imbecile, is the same thing as calling someone a retard. I'm pretty sure you're the only person in the world who'd equate those things.

"he met with the guy before so he knew exactly what his handicap was."

I don't read minds well. We also know that Trump has a documented history (literally, documented on video) of using those same exact gestures to make fun of others. So we don't know. IF he was mocking the guys disability, I completely agree with you about how awful it was.

"You don't think its bad when whole groups of people say it on TV/events?"

Not worse than a thousand things that have been said about many, many others. Not worse than the things CNN said about Nick Sandman, for example.

"Just like I don't try to defend when others say vile things about Trump or anyone else."

You don't? 5 minutes ago, you defended yourself for using the word retard. Jeez, man, get over yourself.