While Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has proven during this pandemic he is fearful of backlash from the Science Denying-Trump Zone-Fox Island-Disinfo War branch of the Republican Party personified by the great thinkers (not) Kelly Ward, Kelly Townsend, Andy Biggs, and Paul Gosar, he at least, Thank God, is not as bad as Florida’s Angel of Death and Science Denying Moron Governor Ron DeSantis.
Arizonans should be thankful for this small mercy but not by much.
In reporting by Forbes Magazine, Mr. DeSantis, the consummate Trump butt kisser, decided the best thing to do for the Floridians under his stewardship was to extend his Executive Order banning Florida’s local mayors from mandating the wearing of masks in their cities or towns.
Daniella Levine Calla, the Mayor of Miami-Dade County, reacting to DeSantis’s ill-advised move, tweeted:
https://twitter.com/MayorDaniella/status/1331658200479830016
Christopher King, the 2018 candidate for Florida Lieutenant Governor, perhaps eying the top job in 2022, also tweeted:
Alternate headline: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Continues Killing Spree https://t.co/Wh0spcg3RG
— Chris King (@ChrisKingFL) November 25, 2020
Doug Ducey at least did give the power to local mayors in the Grand Canyon State to mandate the wearing of masks. That has resulted in 90 percent of Arizonans being under some version of a mask-wearing mandate.
However, like the Mayors of Flagstaff, Phoenix, Tolleson, and Tucson have pointed out, that is not enough with Arizona COVID 19 cases surging. This is due in part to a lack of a statewide coordinated response from Mr. Ducey because he fears a backlash from his science-denying base.
Florida’s DeSantis has not looked to adopt any statewide plan to combat the pandemic and he can not even bring himself to, unlike Ducey, let Mayors protect their residents with Anti COVID 19 measures of their own. Republican and Democratic Mayors in Florida asked DeSantis to give them the power to mandate the wearing of masks. He said no and is apparently no longer taking phone calls from Mayors in South Florida.
Ducey has that problem too in contacting some Democratic Mayors.
Florida is also one of the few states (all of which are led by Republican Governors) that have little to no Mask Wearing Mandates.
According to data from the New York Times, over the last two weeks, Florida has seen a 47 percent increase change in higher COVID 19 cases. There has been a 25 percent rise in hospitalizations and a ten percent increase in deaths.
This is not a situation where the Florida Governor should continue to be relaxing Coronavirus restrictions and seemingly adopting a herd immunity approach to the pandemic.
The Floridians that survive DeSantis’s policies will have an opportunity to show what they think of them in November 2022.
Unfortunately, that is two years from now and the people of Florida need a Governor that will accept the science and lead from reality’s perspective today.
So does Arizona but at least they do not have to build from scratch.
Why don’t you just relocate????
Clay, I’m typing this slowly so you can understand. Before the economy can boom the pandemic has to be at least controlled. Shutting things down earlier this year had made inroads to controlling the pandemic but clowns like Ducey, DeSantis and yes, Trump started screaming about re-opening the economy before the US had a handle on things. What happened? Rates of pandemic cases and deaths started to skyrocket and put the economy in the toilet. For everyone except for the well-connected Right Wing fat cats who are profiting from it. You know, like Senators Perdue and Loeffler. Also, it seems you and your fellow travelers refuse to understand that aside from the funeral industry, dead people don’t contribute to the economy.
Moscow Mitch has been sitting on the House passed (with bi-partisan support) Hero’s Act since last March and refuses to at least give it hearing. The Act included relief for just the ability for people and businesses to stay afloat, but Mitch decided it’s more important to cram as many unqualified Federalist Society judges onto the Federal judiciary as he possibly can. Despite what right wing media is spoon-feeding you and the other right wingers on this thread this is entirely on the Republican leadership.
By the way, leave the comments about someone’s personal appearance out of it. Cuing Mr. Manley, it shows who you REALLY are.
David Gordon spent almost as much time listing his so called accomplishments as writing his article. There is a term I like to use for people like David Gordon it is “Educated Fool”. If he had any common sense to go with his degrees he would know that closing this country down like the blue state Democrat governors have done is devastating to their entire states. When people lose their ability to provide for their families it creates depression, suicides, loss of homes, and a complete range of problems. The residents of NY, Michigan, and all the Dem states hate their clueless governors.
And if that isn’t enough if I was as fat and ugly as David Gordon I sure wouldn’t provide a picture for people to laugh at.
Clay Gardner
Gee, Luda, might we also assume that Joe Biden’s pleas for “unity” are not working for you?
Desantis is a Trumpster for sure, he disappeared for two weeks after the election and a raging pandemic here in Florida
I wish this country would all follow one guidelines and let local leaders do what they need to do… we persecute other dictators and leaders of other countries for genocide what do we do to this country because that’s just what happening in this country but not listening to the scientist were our government is a performing genocide
The problem with liberals from New York is they move out of New York to live in a better place and then demand it be transformed into the absolute stupid moronic sickness that is New York. This David Gordon character and his family needs to move back to New York. He and his kind needs to move out of Arizona so it has a chance to heal and become a better state to live in. Also no room for your kind in Florida.
The Floridians seem to be triggered.
Their anger has caused the to commit egregious spelling and grammar crimes.
Also, wear your masks and social distance, Floridians, we care about you.
Please stay out of Florida. DeSantis is letting us make our own decisions. Stay HOME if you want to and stop complaining. Yes there is a virus, but there are also lots of other things killing people. Thank you DeSantis for allowing us to decide what we are comfortable with. Life is a risk, decide your own threshold.
DeSantis has to go, and I live here
DeSantis is kissing Trumps butt to the end.
In the past 7 days we here in Fla have a rate of 36 cases per 100k people while Arizona is at 54 cases. Source CDC. Find something else to whine about.
We in Florida are not here because we are stupid! Is that why we have Arisona people my the hundreds moving into Florida? You should smarten up that the Republicans are more intelligent then where your coming from in Arizona! Start thinking and stop distorting more fake news !
Back off are governor alone u jerk
Ok if you don’t like our wonderful Governor DeSantis stay out of Florida we don’t want you here. I am a Florida native and I am so proud to have Governor DeSantis. He is one of the Governors that actually has a brain.
Regardless of the situation, name calling and bullying other people is not good journalism.
It is only feeding a bigger problem.
Deliver the facts. Let the reader decide.
I agree with you Mari 100%. Less Big Brother and more freedom. I choose “Live free or die”.
All, yes all studies regarding masks and viruses have shown that masks are worthless and block NO virus load. NONE!
The Governor shows what a weakling and He drank the Kool aid
2022
Can’t get here soon enough
Yeah, we’ll you can keep your blue loving Arizona to yourselves!!! We LOVE our Governor because he treats us like adults and lets us make our own decisions!!! We wouldn’t want it any other way!!!!
You got that right … the mask is far more dangerous to your health than the virus…it’s not about a virus- it’s about control…glad to see that Yankees are making their way out west instead of the South for a change-
Got to love conspiracy theorists. As someone else pointed out, the government gives each of us a number, makes us pay taxes, registers our cars, issues driver’s licenses, registers our property, knows where we go to school, reads our social media, and much, much more. And you think they control us by telling us not to spray our spit on one another by donning a mask. I’ll take a mask over a potentially disabling or deadly virus any day. Incidentally, my mask protects you more than it does me. That’s fine, and I appreciate all efforts by the government to control this pandemic.
We Floridians are not stupid. We don’t have to be ordered to wear a mask. We’re smart enough to do the right thing. Do what you want (or are told) in Arizona. Here in Florida we’ll stick with Ron. DeSantis 2022
The mask is to protect other Americans in case you have the virus and are pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic.
It may offer you some protection as well, but that’s minor, the intent is to keep you from spraying the virus on your neighbors.
If you do not love your country enough to defend your fellow Americans from possible death then you are not a Patriot and can show yourself out.
If your need to go to a bar or other gathering is greater than your fellow Americans right to life, then you are not a Conservative.