Posted on 04/28/2020 9:37:56 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sparked outrage by referring to the Sunshine State as “God’s waiting room” during a briefing about the coronavirus pandemic.
“Florida is ground zero for the nursing home — we’re God’s waiting room,” DeSantis said Sunday, using an old joke about the number of retirees who flock to his state, WPLG Local 10 reported.
“We have a huge number of facilities, a huge number of residents,” he said, adding that Florida had acted swiftly to protect the elderly.
DeSantis said he realized from the beginning, by paying attention to statistics from South Korea, “that not all age groups were equally at risk for coronavirus” — and that deaths were occurring in “folks 65 and up.”
Florida Democratic Party chairwoman Terrie Rizzo slammed the Republican governor for his “God’s waiting room” comment.
“Governor, this isn’t a time to do stand-up, it’s a time to stand up and lead,” she said in a statement.
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I hope he has his Nomex underwear on.
Also known as “The Promised Land” since before DeSantis was born.
Rush Limbaugh has been calling it that for years
And here I thought it was known as the elephant graveyard
of the United States.
Cuomo sends seniors with COVID to nursing homes and refuses to take newly diagnosed seniors with COVID out of nursing homes.
Guess which governor the media will criticize?
Compare Santis to DeBlasio. DeBlasio and Cuomo managed to squash the economy and increase the death toll. It was almost like they wanted to clear the nursing homes of elderly.
Most people understand that a nursing home (not the polite term anymore) is the last stop. It is not Hospice but it is very close. Even the residents know it and joke about it.
LOL! Anyone I’ve ever met in FL has always called it that! This isn’t anything new!
A common saying here.
When my grandmother moved to Florida in the early 1980s she called it “God’s waiting room”.
It has been called that for decades....even the old timers laugh and call it that. Nits....always needing ink to smear.
DeSantis is far from the first to describe Florida in this manner...
“Florida is God’s waiting room” - I have heard that phrase somewhere else. So for the Governor of the state to make that reference, not exactly original.
In fact, just a little bit of a chuckle.
Had figured (jokingly) that the people that ‘wintered’ (snowbirds) in FL and summered in the Northeast were voting in both states.
May have been a ‘joke’ at the time but probably a lot truer than we imagined....
Absolutely not new. I can recall using it almost fifty years ago.
I’ve always thought the joke about Florida was mildly funny, and actually pretty tame. If they complain about this, they’ll complain about anything.
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no sense of humor.”
I first heard it called that when I was a kid- back in the 1950s.
And, away we go.
Everyone has been calling it that for many, many years long before Limbaugh was ever on the radio.
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