Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis chose some unfortunate words when describing his state on Sunday at a coronavirus pandemic briefing, and no one is really surprised. Jaws dropped when the Republican Governor allowed spring breakers to flood the beaches in the sunshine state. OK, so the youth are going to do risky things, but DeSantis is allegedly an adult and an elected official. DeSantis is the Brian Kemp of Florida.
Florida now has 31,528 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, an increase of 689 since Saturday, and deaths rose by 19 to 1,074. Some nursing homes in the state have been walloped with the disease, and that makes DeSantis’ choice of words kind of disturbing. It’s almost as if he doesn’t know what’s going on in the state he governs.
“Florida is ground zero for the nursing home, we’re God’s waiting room,” he said at the briefing. “We have a huge number of facilities, a huge number of residents.”
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DeSantis then boasted that Florida has “only 1.2” coronavirus deaths per 100,000 nursing home residents in the state. Florida officials say that 4,957 COVID-19 cases have been hospitalized in the state.
Nearly 2,500 long-term care facilities in 36 states are inundated with coronavirus cases, according to NBC News, an explosive increase of 522 percent compared to a federal tally just 10 days ago. Residents in nursing homes are the most likely to die from the disease, so DeSantis might want to rethink those words.
And due to DeSantis’ failure to shut down the beaches earlier, sparking outrage, the spring breakers flooding the beaches then left to various parts of the country, thus spreading the novel coronavirus. Some of the kids that somehow felt the need to party on the beaches from different states, contracted COVID-19.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has other problems, too, over the state’s dysfunctional unemployment claims system. DeSanti admitted that Florida’s CONNECT website, a $77 million spend earlier this decade is, a “clunker.”
“The system was problematic,” DeSantis said, noting that the site’s procurement was “five, six years ago,” during Rick Scott‘s time as Governor.
“It was designed with all these different things, basically to fail, I think,” DeSantis said, admitting that it was intentional. However, DeSantis has been in office for a minute, so maybe he should clear that up so that struggling Floridians can put food on the table amid the pandemic.
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