It is past time for Gov. Ron DeSantis to ground himself in some hard realities and admit that the economy will not revive until we greatly slow the zooming spread of this too-often-deadly disease.
On Sunday, Florida recorded a chilling national record: more than 15,300 new COVID-19 cases in a single day. If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world in this appalling category. Our new peers: the United States, Brazil and India.
This is a leadership failure of mammoth proportions, a failure that will contribute to long-term illness and death for many of the citizens that a governor is supposed to protect. No wonder that a hashtag is trending: #DeSantisResign. We’d prefer “DeSantisStepUp.
In some other states where the virus is raging at unprecedented rates — California, Arizona, even the GOP stronghold of Texas — governors are starting to roll back the reopenings that, it is clear now, placed too much faith in people’s common sense to wear the masks and keep the six-foot distances needed to contain the virus’ spread.
But DeSantis? As of this writing, on Thursday, not a hint of how he intends to curb the contagion.
Source: Coronavirus Florida: Editorial: In the worst public health crisis in generations, DeSantis is a massive fail – Opinion – The Palm Beach Post – West Palm Beach, FL
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