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Posted on 10/03/2020 12:34:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that closing school campuses in the spring as the coronavirus pandemic took hold might have been one of the nation’s biggest “public health mistakes.”
And, while appearing on the Drew Steele radio show, DeSantis equated people fighting the return of students to classrooms as the “flat earthers of our day.”
Florida shut down school and college campuses in March, with students shifted to online learning. DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran have pushed heavily to reopen classrooms for the new school year.
“In March we may not have had all the information, but in hindsight, knowing what we know now, the closure of schools was one of the biggest public health mistakes in modern American history,” DeSantis said.
“And I think even Europe has said we shouldn’t have closed up.” In the interview with the conservative talk-show host, DeSantis said that as the virus surged in Florida in July, he fought against people who didn’t want to reopen schools because he expected the outbreak to abate and because children “are not vectors” for spreading the coronavirus.
“So, now we’re at the point where the people who advocate school closures are really the flat earthers of our day,” DeSantis said.
“They’re not doing it based on data. They’re not doing it based on evidence. They’re doing it based on either politics or emotion. And so, the harm of school closures, I think, is really considerable.”
In August, the Florida Education Association argued in court that a July order by Corcoran to reopen schools would force teachers to “needlessly expose themselves to a deadly and contagious virus-based solely on a blanket and arbitrary decision that schools must reopen for in-person instruction or lose their funding.”
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I think DeSantis could be Presidential material.
Flat Earther’s say that since pizza has a crust and is round and flat and since Earth is round and has a crust therefor the Earth is flat also.
+1 FRiend. But we really need him for one more term as governor here in Florida.
Flat Earth theory is gaining followers all around the Globe.
It takes a big man to admit to an honest, but big, mistake. Thank you Governor DeSantis.
DeSantis is showing up.
DeSantis 2024
Kristi Noem got it right the first time.
The media scared everyone with kids...In Fort Myers a girl died from the virus the TV stations run for a week hown bad it was..then after a week we learn the girl had cancer..and then the virus..
I think DeSantis could be Presidential material.
Yes, DeSantis has right stuff to follow Trump. He’s looking good.
You could say the same thing about Trump I suppose. But in defense of both of them, neither ordered a shutdown. Shutdowns did occur in Florida, but not because DeSantis ordered them. They were ordered at the county and municipal level. Ultimately DeSantis overrode some of those local orders and ordered the state to reopen for business. He also ordered the schools to open.
He did make the close the border call early.
DeSantis is good, but needs to take lessons from Noem.
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