Endangering????
Let's see this huge death toll in 3 months, idiots. Let's compare it to the death toll in just on city. Chicago. Who is endangering who?
Posted on 08/13/2021 5:15:27 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The first duty of any state governor is to protect the health and safety of the citizenry. In that sense, the incredibly cynical and dangerous performative politics against pandemic safety being undertaken by some (though not all) Republican governors around America is nothing less than the abdication of their duty.
This list includes Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, whose uneven messaging on masking and whose abetting of anti-vaccine paranoia (he falsely accused President Joe Biden of seeking to “compel” vaccinations) have helped give his state among the worst coronavirus resurgences in America.
But the poster child for gubernatorial irresponsibility is Florida’s Ron DeSantis, who is showily blocking local governments and private businesses from addressing the raging caseloads there with an eye on building his standing among the Trumpian base for a potential presidential run. Mr. DeSantis’ ambition, like that of too many of his fellow GOP governors, may be literally killing people.
Florida has become the national epicenter of the new viral surge, accounting for almost 1 of every 5 new cases in the U.S. and breaking its own daily record repeatedly in recent weeks — most recently on Tuesday, when the state logged 24,753 new cases.
And how has Mr. DeSantis responded to this unprecedented public health emergency in his state? When local Florida school districts sought mask requirements for students, citing the higher rates of child infections involving the delta variant, Mr. DeSantis threatened the funding of those districts. When private businesses required that their employees and patrons be vaccinated, he signed a law prohibiting such requirements.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Last I checked, Florida has one of the lowest Covid death rates in the country. So what danger? LOL
The first duty of a liberal press is to protect Democrats from Republican challengers, and to do constant hit pieces on any of the latter who show promise.
I wish DeSantis was our governor.
Very succinctly and well stated.
Uh, no.
Pick up a copy of any state constitution and look up the governor's duties. I'm willing to be there isn't a single state in the U.S. where the words "health" and "safety" appear anywhere in the description of the governor's duties and responsibilities.
I guess he doesn’t care how you do it up north.
Same with the President. So why is Dementia Joe importing hundreds of thousands of covid positive, criminals, murderers etc from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and every screwed up country on the planet?
At least he has people and citizens, not serfs and subjects. Anyone who doesn’t like freedom should stay away and mind their own business. But that’s not the way of communists, is it?
Hmmm - I’m here in FL and I don’t feel “endangered”.
It’s obvious....... they are after DeSantis
We must go after them .....hard
Your progressive friends, mother , father ,brother, sister, aunt uncle, cousin are American domestic enemies.
Ostracize them
Not even news. Should be in chat forum.
This is why people from all over the US blue states are moving to Florida; it must be a death wish or more likely, its the lying media protecting the Senile Usurper. I saw the other day that Chris Wallace weighed in on this; the same biased “moderator” of the presidential debate who was far more of an opponent to Trump than Biden.
You forget, freedom is slavery!
It's the Pittsburgh paper, all right, but it re-printed this reditorial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I have no idea what their b*tches wave.
YOU MUST OBEY THE RULING OLIGARCHY!
THERE SHALL BE NO FREE STATES!
ALL MUST COMPLY!
As opposed to Wolf (PA) and Cuomo who quite literally did kill people in nursing homes by ordering Covid patients to be sent there.
The PPG has always been a blatant Democrat mouthpiece rag.
This is fascinating...
A rag owned by Block Communications is running an editorial from a rag owned by Lee Enterprises in order to facilitate Deep State’s was on DeSantis and his voters.
Folks should print out this editorial for any relatives/friends/acquaintances who have yet to realize that our Fourth Estate is really a Fifth Column.
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