DON’T EXPECT THE PRESS TO ADMIT ITS ERRORS:
Related: Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology? “An irony of the national coverage of the coronavirus crisis is that at the same time DeSantis was being made into a villain, New York governor Andrew Cuomo was being elevated as a hero, even though the DeSantis approach to nursing homes was obviously superior to that of Cuomo. Florida went out of its way to get COVID-19-positive people out of nursing homes, while New York went out of its way to get them in, a policy now widely acknowledged to have been a debacle.”
Plus:
DeSantis is bemused by the obsession with Florida’s beaches. When they opened in Jacksonville, it was a big national story, usually relayed with a dire tone. “Jacksonville has almost no COVID activity outside of a nursing-home context,” he says. “Their hospitalizations are down, ICU down since the beaches opened a month ago. And yet, nobody talks about it. It’s just like, ‘Okay, we just move on to the next target.’”
There’s a reason why some people call them the “drive-by media.”
Not “amazingly”...INTENTIONALLY.
You can’t compare Florida and New York so simple-mindedly. The situations were completely different.
New York’s figures are way down. Florida health official being fired because she refused to manipulate data to show better improvement.
Post about what you know.