A leading Florida newspaper pleaded in an editorial for more action by Gov. Ron DeSantis(R) to battle COVID-19, reminding him: “We’re passing away here.”
” With each passing day, COVID-19 continues to careen out of control in Florida,” stated the Thursday editorial in the Sun Sentinel. “Your daily upbeat message is hopelessly at chances with what Floridians are going through. You make it sound like everything is headed in the best instructions. But it’s not.”
Florida struck a record number of deaths from COVID-19 three days running today, climbing up from 191 deaths on Tuesday to the latest record of 253 deaths on Thursday. The state surpassed New York’s total variety of cases last Saturday.
A new Quinnipiac survey has actually discovered that 79%of Floridians support a mask requirement, including 60%of Republicans, the editorial noted.
DeSantis was among the last governors in the country to lock down his state in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, and amongst the very first to open it back up. A blistering post in The Washington Post revealed that DeSantis sidelined health experts as the illness wrecked his state, rather turning to the White House for marching orders on getting businesses back up and running despite the threats.
Florida’s record on addressing the pandemic is so abysmal tha