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I think we can not tell yet (I'm a FL'dn) what impacts can and can't be attributed to DeSantis. His motivations are clearly disturbing (fine w/ trading lives for economy) and I strongly dislike him. However, it is most important to me that we learn the lessons that are. If an earnest and incorrupt study (including fixing his skewed death stats) of the FL response exonerates him, then I want to know that. notes: Some…
...but that's really the point: it turns out that cookie cutter interventions at the State level are, in nearly every case, a huge failure with dramatic, life-ending or -changing consequences. I'm in Pinellas County, where there are indoor mask requirements for some places, but no other NPIs in place. Live music is on, gyms are open and people are getting back in shape, etc. At the end of the day, Florida's numbers a…
That may be part of a lesson we take away from this. Actions that hinge more on trust and less on expensive resources may be more effective when enacted at a local level.
> At the end of the day, Florida's numbers are the envy of most states, without any school closures and almost no statewide lockdown.
Remote learning and virtual schooling are viable alts to closing schools - esp in a state w/ higher numbers of kids living with grandparents.
> DeSantis ... for some unexplained reason had almost singular gumption to listen to progressive, established epidemiologists like Gupta, Kulldorff, Baral, Prasad
I'll need post-event analysis before I understand how much of their counsel was reflected in his actions.