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babylonsister

(171,054 posts)
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 07:45 AM Aug 2021

Ron DeSantis Says Biden Should Follow Florida's Lead on COVID

He's really pushing his buddy's monoclonal antibodies.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-says-biden-should-follow-floridas-lead-on-covid?ref=home

Ron DeSantis Says Biden Should Follow Florida’s Lead on COVID
‘GREAT SUCCESS’
Blake Montgomery
Reporter/Editor
Published Aug. 25, 2021 9:10PM ET


Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, said that President Joe Biden had failed to “end COVID,” whereas his state was experiencing “great success” in treating patients. “You know, he said he was going to end COVID. He hasn’t done that. We are the first state to start the treatment centers for monoclonal antibodies. We're having great success with that. That should have been a bigger plan, a bigger part of this whole response throughout the country from the beginning. At the end of the day, he is trying to find a way to distract from the failures of his presidency,” DeSantis said. What DeSantis did not mention, however, was that Florida hospitals have operated at full capacity for weeks now, buckling under a crush of new coronavirus cases despite the availability of vaccines. Funeral homes across the state have told local TV stations that they are full to the ceiling with the bodies of COVID-19 victims. The governor has refused to implement mitigation measures to slow the spread of the virus and even barred schools and government agencies from requiring face masks or vaccines.
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Ron DeSantis Says Biden Should Follow Florida's Lead on COVID (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2021 OP
LOL HAB911 Aug 2021 #1
Well, Elessar Zappa Aug 2021 #2
Hospitals and municipal water systems are in competition for crucial supplies of liquid oxygen. HAB911 Aug 2021 #3
Fuck you Deathsentence. I have a good friend fighting this shit. Lochloosa Aug 2021 #4
I guess he wants to drag Biden down with him? GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #5
Joe's response: DeSantis can go F himself and then go straight to hell. Irish_Dem Aug 2021 #6
The idea, Moonpie, is to keep people from becoming "patients" in the FIRST place. Buns_of_Fire Aug 2021 #7
Epic gaslighting Blues Heron Aug 2021 #8
Selectively ignoring the negative facts. Baitball Blogger Aug 2021 #9
Has DeSantis looked how many people are dying each day in Florida? LisaL Aug 2021 #10
He's insane. smirkymonkey Aug 2021 #11
So according to Death Santis Mad_Machine76 Aug 2021 #12
DeathSantis ... BlueWavePsych Aug 2021 #13
The Taliban want to promote their human rights records as well as treatment of women and minorties samsingh Aug 2021 #14

Elessar Zappa

(13,952 posts)
2. Well,
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 07:48 AM
Aug 2021

the monoclonal antibodies can be an effective treatment in certain situations but it’s certainly no replacement for prevention by means of vaccines and masking up. DeSantis is a sociopath that should be impeached.

HAB911

(8,879 posts)
3. Hospitals and municipal water systems are in competition for crucial supplies of liquid oxygen.
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 07:49 AM
Aug 2021
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/08/25/water-users-asked-to-cut-back-so-oxygen-keeps-flowing-to-covid-19-patients/


The delta variant is infecting more people with coronavirus in Florida than in any other state, flooding hospital emergency rooms with unvaccinated patients and killing people at a record-breaking rate.

But efforts to help victims keep breathing are draining resources across the country and in Tampa Bay — creating competition between hospitals and municipal water systems for crucial supplies of liquid oxygen.

For hospitals, oxygen is easier to store as a liquid in the large volumes they now require for COVI-19 patients. For many municipal water systems, liquid oxygen is a key component in water purification.

Ron DeathSentence is a jeeeeeenus

Lochloosa

(16,062 posts)
4. Fuck you Deathsentence. I have a good friend fighting this shit.
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 07:52 AM
Aug 2021

Couldn't Convince him to get the shot because of your shit.

God, I hate these people.

Irish_Dem

(46,888 posts)
6. Joe's response: DeSantis can go F himself and then go straight to hell.
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 08:06 AM
Aug 2021

(The more pious the Irish Catholic, the more they seem to cuss.)

Blues Heron

(5,931 posts)
8. Epic gaslighting
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 08:27 AM
Aug 2021

two condo collapses worth of people are dying each day in Florida and this psychopath thinks that's good?

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
10. Has DeSantis looked how many people are dying each day in Florida?
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 09:18 AM
Aug 2021

"This week, 227 virus deaths were being reported each day in Florida, on average, as of Tuesday, a record for the state and by far the most in the United States right now. The average for new known cases reached 23,314 a day on the weekend, 30 percent higher than the state’s previous peak in January, according to a New York Times database. Across the country, new deaths have climbed to more than 1,000 a day, on average."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/25/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine

Mad_Machine76

(24,402 posts)
12. So according to Death Santis
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 09:31 AM
Aug 2021

the most effective way to deal with a contagious respiratory disease that's killing hundreds of people is to wait until large numbers of people get sick and then clog up the ERs and ICUs instead of asking people to wear a mask and get a proven vaccine that prevents people from getting sick at all (or at least from severe symptoms)?


I'm glad that Joe is way smarter than that.

samsingh

(17,594 posts)
14. The Taliban want to promote their human rights records as well as treatment of women and minorties
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 11:35 AM
Aug 2021

as a model for all others to follow

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