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Sloppy Joe
Had a pretty idiotic, arrogant response to COVID and is a known Trump bootlicker with receipts.
Wanting to lower flags to honor a dead racist entertainer is good cannon fodder for Team Retard.
Also looks semi retarded. Great avatar for Trumpism but too much baggage for any real ascent.
As it's played out, he actually looks fairly good regarding COVID. Things have changed since last year, when Cuomo was the media hero and DeSantis was the villain.
DeSantis actually did a lot of things correctly regarding COVID, which a lot of blue state governors didn't:
- Resisted shutting down outdoor dining and activities. (Remember the embarrassing incidents in California where the police were arresting surfers?)
- Did the opposite of Cuomo, and established "COVID-only nursing homes", where certain nursing homes were set up to only house COVID-positive patients, and the rest could not take people with COVID.
- Kept schools open longer and reopened sooner, which looks like the correct decision based upon the science, especially for students from poorer families, who are suffering the most.
- Has a lower COVID deaths-per-million average than the rest of the US, despite having the second-highest percentage of seniors in the population (only behind Maine, which is a small, sparsely-populated state).
- Rejected the CDC "racial equity" nonsense in determining COVID vaccine distribution procedures, and made it age-based. Other states, including blue ones, have since come around to admitting that distributing the vaccine based upon age is the best practice. It should also be noted that other first-world countries are doing it a similar way to Florida, and aren't considering "racial equity" or other social factors when prioritizing vaccine distribution. DeSantis had this correct from the start.
But yeah, DeSantis has been horrible on COVID because CNN told Sloopy Joe that's the case. Oh, and Cuomo deserves an Emmy.