With all respect old friend, it’s quite funny watching all your outrage over the extremely minor things DeSantis did in Florida, while acting if Trump’s completely draconian and fully nationwide lockdown guidelines he specifically asked FOR EVERY AMERICAN to follow had nothing to do with it.
DeSantis did nothing, and probably would have done nothing, until Trump released his lockdown guidelines. Then, he implemented nothing nearly as restrictive as what Trump requested. Then, he rescinded what little he had put in place, far in advance of most every other governor, especially any other governor in any state of comparable size.
The decisions that DeSantis made with regard to Trump’s lockdown guidelines, turned him into a hero not only here in Florida, but nationwide. Now, he’s preparing to lead a similar fight against Trump’s vaccines. Great I say. Sorry you have such sour grapes over it all. Maybe you should move to Florida, too, where woke goes to die. Or maybe you have a problem with that, too lol.
DeSantis didn't exactly do nothing up to Trump's guidelines announcement. After looking at the data, DeSantis (and when I write DeSantis, that is him and his teams) isolated and focused on the primary demographic must harmed by the virus and focused on isolating and checking the spread at retirement/convalescent facilities. He also announced virtual learning at the beginning as did all the other states, and then once more, evaluated the data and have the option for in-school learning.
His leadership, which was highly criticized (even by Trump) was based on the decision to actually have his teams analyze the data and decide what was best for his state and constituents.THAT is why he won by 20 points, not just because "he was running against Crist, for Cristsake". His leadership and the state's resultant economic stability, enough to tell Disney to piss up a rope, inspired lazy moderate Republicans, independents in large cities, and Latinos in the south to show up and vote.
The link in Post #47 is all the evidence anyone should need to disqualify this guy from holding public office.
Some of us were very sensitive to this kind of crap at the time because we run our own businesses and were facing financial ruin if we were locked down indefinitely.
One of the lessons I've learned over the years is that it's absolutely critical to see how a leader (in government or business) reacts in a crisis.
People in leadership positions show their primary instincts in these situations.
And I have nothing but contempt for anyone who acts like a dictator and throws all principles of freedom and liberty out the window at a critical time. This goes for DeSantis in Florida and that other nitwit in Pennsylvania (Mastriano) who was publicly calling in March 2020 for the suspension of HIPAA privacy laws and registering people with positive COVID test results in a public database.
There's a reason why the first instinct of @ssholes like this is for a totalitarian government solution to a crisis: It's because they've worked in government all their lives (and in the case of both Mastriano and DeSantis, spent long stretches of their government careers in the U.S. military) and they simply have no respect for the fundamental principle that freedom and liberty exists outside of government and is not subject to negotiation.
This episode captures the essence of Ron DeSantis in a nutshell. He had no problem shutting down businesses because he has never worked outside government in his life, and wasn't going to miss a single paycheck no matter how many lives he disrupted among Florida's business owners.
And it's no coincidence that a dope with a military pedigree would use National Guard troops to enforce an illegal travel ban.